October 2020 Catalogue

61 New Acquisitions October 2020 “Listen: Billy Pilgrim Has Come Unstuck In Time” 67. VONNEGUT, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death. New York, 1969. Octavo, original gilt-stamped blue cloth, dust jacket. $2800. Click for more info First edition of Vonnegut’smasterpiece—his “most powerful novel”—amodern classic of time travel, metaphysics and the morality, or lack thereof, of war. “ Slaughterhouse-Five , perhaps Vonnegut’s most powerful novel, presents two characters who can see beneath the surface to the tragic realities of human history but make no attempt to bring about change… The central event is thedestructionofDresdenbybombsandfire storm—acatastrophe that Vonnegut himself witnessed as a prisoner of war” (Vinson, 1414- 15). “A masterpiece… A key work” ( Anatomy of Wonder II:1204). Text fine, faintest foxing to bright cloth-gilt; trace of tape removal to verso of colorful dust jacket. A very handsome about-fine copy.