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New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1994. Signed by the author. 25th Anniversary edition / First printing with a new introduction by the author. Black cloth spine, black paper-covered boards, Very fine in fine dust jacket. The author's breakthrough masterpiece. After twenty years of struggling for critical and popular success, this book gave him the audience and recognition he had sought. The horrific firebombing of Dresden, which he witnessed as a POW, shocked Vonnegut into a lifelong distrust of the senseless and amoral violence of all war. Number 18 on Modern Library's Best 100 Novels. A classic of counter-culture literature.

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.