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Lot 510

VONNEGUT, Kurt (1922?2007). Slaughterhouse?Five or The Chil...

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VONNEGUT, Kurt (1922?2007). Slaughterhouse?Five or The Children?s Crusade. [New York]: Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte Press, [1969]. 8vo. Publisher?s turquoise cloth stamped in gilt, black and red (a touch of sunning to extremities); original unclipped FIRST STATE dust jacket with $5.95 price and the correct code of 0369 at foot of rear flap (evenly toned, later price label affixed to front flap). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of Vonnegut?s classic anti?war novel based on his own experiences as a POW during the Allied bombing of Dresden in 1945.