"THUCYDIDES IS THE FIRST NEW JOURNALIST I KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT"

VONNEGUT, Kurt. Wampeters Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions). New York: Delacorte Press, (1974). Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $1750.

First edition of this collection of funny, cranky, and often insightful writing by Vonnegut including essays, review, and speeches, inscribed, "For Terrance! Kurt Vonnegut. June 20, 1999," with Vonnegut's trademark asterisk mark.

This wonderful and often hilarious collection features "25 short pieces (essays, speeches at colleges and so-called learned societies, reviews, one play, a fictitious Playboy interview) [which] can be collected under the rubric of 'New Journalism'… [Vonnegut] sounds off on science fiction writers, writing seminars, Maharishi, moon shots, Hesse, Biafra, torture, Vietnam, Hunter Thompson, and also blows his own horn now and again" (Kirkus).

Book fine, dust jacket with abrasion to price on front flap, very faint dampstaining along top margin of bottom flap. A near-fine copy.