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New York: Delacorte Press, 1994. 25th Anniversary Edition. hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8" x 5.25" x 0.75. Signed by the Author. Signed by Vonnegut on the first front end paper. Kurt Vonnegut was a native of Indianapolis, Indiana, and a graduate of Cornell. In World War II he was taken prisoner by the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge. His first novel, Player Piano, came out in 1952 but he struggled as a writer until he achieved great success in 1969 with Slaughterhouse-Five, which is considered one of the world's great antiwar books, per the dust jacket. "This novel centers on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know." (Dust jacket). A beautiful copy, bound in quarter black cloth and paper. The cover is plain with gilt lettering on the spine. Deckled foredge. Illustrated endpapers in black and white. 205 pp. Illustration and…

Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a science fiction-infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut, first published in 1969.