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More information about this seller contact this seller 14. He was senior editor of intellectual digest, book editor of politics today, and contributing editor of baseball magazine. First trade edition, boldly signed on the half title by vonnegut with his fullpage selfportrait sketch and his characteristic flourish. Printed on 100% cotton watercolour textured paper, art prints would be at home in any gallery. First edition in cloth of kurt vonneguts influential second book, one of 2500 copies, boldly signed by kurt vonnegut with his characteristic selfportrait on the half title. Galapagos takes the reader back one million years, to a.
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First collected in 1951, this edition has been increased by 150 pages, and with a new introduction. During the second world war he was a prisoner in germany and present at the bombing of dresden, an experience he recounted in his famous novel slaughterhouse five 1969. The book has never been opened, still sealed as when it arrived from the publisher. Slaughterhouse five, signed by kurt vonnegut, leather bound. Nov 11, 2016 like several of his others, this book is about science fiction while not actually being a science fiction novel. These rare works were originally published by easton press and luxuriously bound in full genuine leather with gilded page edges. He wrote the foreword to look at the birdie, a collection of kurt. His parents were a third generation germanamerican, and have a hierarchy of successful relatives. See all 26 formats and editions hide other formats and editions.
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