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Vonnegut, Kurt. Bluebeard. The Franklin Library, Pennsylvania, 1987. 1st Edition. Signed (guaranteed authentic by the Franklin Library.) 8 5/16". Bound in the original full leather binding in blue with three raised bands, ribbon place marker, all edges gold gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece by Edith Vonnegut Squibb. Together with the original paperwork issued with this book by the Franklin Library. In fine condition. No previous signs of ownership. Original paper also fine. The bloody history of our time is once again the author's subject in this "mock autobiography" of Rabo Karabekian. In 1987, Karabekian is a depressed widower living alone on a vast oceanfront estate in fashionable Eastern Long Island. Behind the padlocked doors of a ramshackle potato barn he's stored a secret --- a big secret. A fractious and definitely uninvited female of insatiable curiosity --- what is behind those doors? --- jolts him back to life. As she bullies back into writing his memoirs, we begin to understand how very much of our century is summed up in Rabo Karabekian's long life.