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New York & Barnstable, MA: Holt, Rinehart & Winston / Crane Duplicating Service, Inc, 1965. First Edition. Vonnegut's fifth novel, centered around a millionaire who develops a conscience and leaves New York for the midwest, where he attempts to disperse his fortune among the residents of a small Indiana town. Uncommon in the proof state; while no hard numbers are known for how many such proofs were printed, marketing materials for Crane from this period suggest they would not undertake a job printing fewer than 11 copies of a proof, with other known examples from this period numbering between two to three dozen. Ahearn APG 006b; cf.Pieratt, Huffman & Klinkowitz AF1. First Printing, second [proof] state. Octavo (22cm); publisher's galley sheets, comb-bound into pale yellow printed card wrappers with titling printed in black; 219,[1]pp. Some toning, dust-soil, and a few faint tide-marks to wrapper extremities, faint diagonal crease to upper right corner of front wrapper, with contents…

'God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater' is a novel about Eliot Rosewater, who inherits a fortune and struggles with moral dilemmas as he tries to do good for the people of Rosewater, Indiana.