Cover of Slaughterhouse 5. Blue cloth, gilded signature of the author, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
A hand holding a book showing the spine. Slaughterhouse 5, by Kurt Vonnegut, jr. blue cloth, gilded block text.
The title page of Slaighterhouse Five. Text reads:
Slaughterhouse-Five
OR
THE CHILDREN'S
号 CRUSADE=
A DUTY-DANCE WITH DEATH
BY
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
A FOURTH-GENERATION GERMAN-AMERICAN
NOW LIVING IN EASY CIRCUMSTANCES
ON CAPE COD
[AND SMOKING TOO MUCH),
WHO, AS AN AMERICAN INFANTRY SCOUT HORS DE COMBAT,
AS A PRISONER OF WAR, WITNESSED THE FIRE-BOMBING OF DRESDEN, GERMANY,
"THE FLORENCE OF THE ELBE,"
A LONG TIME AGO,
AND SURVIVED TO TELL THE TALE.
THIS IS A NOVEL
SOMEWHAT IN THE TELEGRAPHIC SCHIZOPHRENIC
MANNER OF TALES
OF THE PLANET TRALFAMADORE, WHERE THE FLYING SAUCERS COME FROM.
PEACE.
A SEYMOUR LAWRENCE BOOK / DELACORTE PRESS
A card with a book’s information.
Slaughterhouse - Five
Kurt Vonnegut 5r.
1969 1st edition, 5th printing
unl. Price backed out in upper right hand corner.
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