Slaughterhouse-Five. by VONNEGUT, Kurt - 1969: Or, the Children's Crusade. A Duty-Dance with Death.

New York: A Seymour Lawrence Book / Delacorte Press,, 1969. His most famous work First edition, first printing, of the author's best-known novel. Though infused with science fiction elements, the plot centres on the Allied bombing of Dresden in 1945, which Vonnegut himself experienced. "Amid the disenchantment surrounding the Vietnam War, this tale of the innocent but decidedly unheroic World War II GI, Billy Pilgrim, hit a nerve and soared to the top of the sales lists. Approaching fifty years of age, Vonnegut became a household name, a rumpled, cigarette-wielding prophet to the younger generation" (ANB). Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, red, and black, facsimile signature stamped on front cover in gilt, black endpapers. With dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon. Light fading to spine and spots to cloth, foxing to top edge, couple of marks to fore edge, contents unaffected and clean. A very good copy indeed in like dust jacket, unclipped, mildly toned as usual, couple of marks to spine, light foxing to front panel edges, short closed tear at head of rear panel, presenting well.