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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Kurt Vonnegut

"AND GOD BLESS DON AND ANNIE": GOD BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER, BOLDLY INSCRIBED BY KURT VONNEGUT TO HIS AGENT, ATTORNEY, LITERARY EXECUTOR, AND CLOSE FRIEND

VONNEGUT Jr., Kurt. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. (New York): Delacorte Press, (1965). Octavo, original half gray cloth, original dust jacket. $1800.

First Delacorte edition, second printing, of Vonnegut's fifth novel, praised as "a brilliantly funny satire on almost everything," boldly inscribed to his close friend and literary executor, Don Farber: "And God Bless Don and Annie—Kurt Vonnegut."

Vonnegut's "dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation" (New York Times). God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Vonnegut's fifth novel, is "marked by freedom of form and by fanciful black humor in presenting the duplicity and absurdity of modern life, and its lack of generosity and gentleness" (Hart, 795). The first edition was published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1965. This copy is inscribed by Vonnegut to Don Farber and his wife, Annie. Farber was Vonnegut's agent, attorney, literary executor, and close friend. Perhaps best known for zealously protecting Vonnegut's estate after his death, Farber also wrote a memoir focusing on his friendship with Vonnegut, entitled, I Hated to Do It: Stories of a Life.

Book lovely with only slight soiling to endpapers, dust jacket with only minor rubbing to extremities and small chip to head of spine just touching the "K" in Kurt. A near-fine inscribed copy, with outstanding provenance.

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