Kurt Vonnegut Lot 14 *6 1st printings* +Wampeters, Foma

Priceless!

1. Player Piano (Vintage PB) (1952)

2. Sirens of the Titan (Mass Market PB) (1959)

3. Mother Night (PB - Movie edition) (1961)

4. Cat’s Cradle (Vintage hardcover - 1963) (2^nd printing)

5. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Or Pearls Before Swine (Trade PB - Brand new) (2^nd printing) (1965)

6. Slaughterhouse Five (Trade PB) (Time’s 100 Greatest Novels) (1969)

7. Breakfast of Champions; or, Goodbye Blue Monday (1973) (Vintage PB - New)

8. Slapstick (PB) (In case) (1^st Dell printing!) (1976) (Caricature on pg 3 - shown above)

9. Jailbird (1979) (Mass Market PB) (1^st Dell printing!)

10. Deadeye Dick (1982) (Vintage PB - New) (1^st printing!)

11. Galapagos (Mass Market PB) (1^st printing!) (1985)

12. Hocus Pocus (1990) (Mass Market PB) (1^st printing!)

13. Timequake (Trade PB - Brand New) (1^st printing!) (Caricature on pg 3 - shown above) (1997)

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS *25*

14. Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons [Opinions] (1974) (PB - Great Britain Ed.)

• "Science Fiction" - Vonnegut's reflections on writing science fiction.
• "Brief Encounters on the Inland Waterway" (1966) - This recounts a journey from Massachusetts to Florida on the Kennedy yacht crewing for their captain, Frank Wirtanen (whose name had been borrowed for the character of an American intelligence officer in Mother Night).
• "Hello, Star Vega"
• "Teaching the Unteachable"
• "Yes, We Have No Nirvanas"
• "Fortitude" - The only work of fiction in the book.
• "There's a Maniac Loose Out There"
• "Excelsior! We're Going to the Moon! Excelsior!"
• "Address to the American Physical Society"
• "Good Missiles, Good Manners, Good Night"
• "Why They Read Hesse"
• "Oversexed in Indianapolis"
• "The Mysterious Madame Blavatsky"
• "Biafra: A People Betrayed" - Vonnegut writes about his experiences in Biafra shortly before the country fell to Nigerian forces.
• "Address to Graduating Class at Bennington College, 1970"
• "Torture and Blubber"
• "Address to the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1971"
• "Reflections on My Own Death"
• "In a Manner that Must Shame God Himself" - Comments on the nature of the U.S.'s two-party system (and the problems these divisions create).
• "Thinking Unthinkable, Speaking Unspeakable"
• "Address at Rededication of Whaton College Library, 1973"
• "Invite Rita Rait to America!"
• "Address to P.E.N. Conference in Stockholm, 1973"
• "A Political Disease"
• "Playboy Interview"