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New York: Delacorte Press, 1969. First Edition. First Printing, 10,000 copies. Octavo (21.5cm); turquoise cloth, with titles stamped in gilt, black, and metallic red on spine, and author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on front cover; dustjacket; [xiv],186,[8]pp. With a bookplate signed by the author tipped onto the preliminary blank. Spine ends gently nudged, hint of fading along the lower board edges, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.95), sunned at spine and panels, showing modest shelfwear, a few tiny tears, and a very faint spot of soil to upper right corner of front panel; Very Good+. Vonnegut's most enduring work of fiction, a re-telling of his experiences during the bombing of Dresden, as well as a story of time travel. "Billy Pilgrim survives the Dresden firestorm as a POW, but subsequently becomes unstuck in time after being kidnapped by Trafalmadorians and caged with a blue movie starlet. Thus he learns that everything is fixed 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.

Look for the statement 'Published by Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence in March 1969' and no mention of subsequent printings on the copyright page.