Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: a Duty-Dance with Death
by Vonnegut, Kurt
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- Fine
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine
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Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. Full brown leather, hubbed spine, tooled gilt decoration to spine and boards, moire silk endpapers and pagemarker, all edges gilt, (9 x 6.5 inches). 173 pages; illustrations by Alan E. Cober. A limited edition, privately printed and individually SIGNED by the author on second free endpage protected by tissue-guard. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. An exceptionally clean, tight (unread) copy in collector FINE condition. Signed. Limited Edition. Leather. Fine. Illus. by Alan E. Cober. Octavo.
Synopsis
Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.
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- Bookseller
- Books & Bidders, Antiquarian Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005957
- Title
- Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: a Duty-Dance with Death
- Author
- Vonnegut, Kurt
- Illustrator
- Alan E. Cober
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
- Date Published
- 1978
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Signed Franklin Library Series
- Bookseller catalogs
- Leather Bound Books;
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- Edges
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- Octavo
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.