Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Vonnegut, Kurt

Used book has very little markings, writing from the previous owner. No DJ. Some bumping, rubbing, creasing, little tears on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer edges have tanning, browning, stains and foxing. Front, back covers do have stains (Image of actual book). Antiwar. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Vonnegut describes as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he himself witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines science fiction, autobiography, humor, historical fiction, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. Billy, like Vonnegut, experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW, and, as with Vonnegut, it is the defining moment of his life. 1969. U18.

New York: Dial Press, 2009. Paperback. Near Fine. Later Printing. Near Fine. Wraps faintly rubbed and bumped. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

Dell Pub Co, 1991. Paperback. New. illustrated edition. 224 pages. 7.25x4.50x0.75 inches.

Dell Pub Co, 1991. Paperback. New. illustrated edition. 224 pages. 7.25x4.50x0.75 inches.

Delta, 1999. Paperback. New. reissue edition. 275 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.75 inches.

Delta, 1999. Paperback. New. reissue edition. 275 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.75 inches.

Vintage Books 2000 Paperback. Good. Some foxing; previous shop stamp inside.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. Signed Limited Edition. Leather bound. Fine. Clean, tight, unread copy. Pristine but with some fading to moire end papers, as is common in these editions. Signed on a front free end paper, with tissue guard.. Saddle-brown leather/boards; gilt decoration all around with 4 raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. All edges gilt. Silk moire end papers with matching stain place-holder ribbon. No dust jacket, as issued. 173 pp. with bw illustrations by Alan E. Cober. Includes a message, special to this edition, from the author to the subscribers.