Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse 5 – First UK Edition 1970
£385.00
A first edition, first printing of Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut, published by Cape, London in 1970. A near fine book without inscriptions, toning to the text block and thin strips of toning to the exposed edges of boards. In a very good price clipped wrapper with chipping to the spine tips and knuckles of front and rear flap folds, fading to the spine. Jacket design by Bryan Rowell.
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut is a darkly comic, anti-war novel following Billy Pilgrim, who becomes unstuck in time after surviving the Dresden bombing during World War II. Billy drifts between moments of his life and encounters the alien Tralfamadorians, who view time as fixed. Mixing science fiction, memoir and satire, the novel confronts trauma, free will and the absurdity of war with haunting simplicity and irony, while repeating its famous refrain, ‘so it goes’, throughout.
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A first edition, first printing of Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut, published by Cape, London in 1970. A near fine book without inscriptions, toning to the text block and thin strips of toning to the exposed edges of boards. In a very good price clipped wrapper with chipping to the spine tips and knuckles of front and rear flap folds, fading to the spine. Jacket design by Bryan Rowell.
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut is a darkly comic, anti-war novel following Billy Pilgrim, who becomes unstuck in time after surviving the Dresden bombing during World War II. Billy drifts between moments of his life and encounters the alien Tralfamadorians, who view time as fixed. Mixing science fiction, memoir and satire, the novel confronts trauma, free will and the absurdity of war with haunting simplicity and irony, while repeating its famous refrain, ‘so it goes’, throughout.
