* * * * H O L I D A Y G I F T S * B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S “IN MEMORY OF HAPPY DAYS ALONG THE IDEA TRAIL”: FIRST EDITION OF VONNEGUT’S GOD BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER 49 49. VONNEGUT Jr., Kurt. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. New York, 1965. Octavo, original half gray cloth, dust jacket. $1100 First edition of Vonnegut’s fifth novel, praised by Conrad Aiken as “a brilliantly funny satire on almost everything,” in original dust jacket. 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). “First Edition” stated on copyright page. Book fine, price-clipped dust jacket with faint waterstains near foot of spine. A near-fine copy.
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