1st Dell PB 8029 SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE Kurt Vonnegut 1971

For sale is this collectable author's most desirable title, a splendid blend of history, humor and fantasy in the story of optometrist Billy Pilgrim, survivor of the firebombing of Dresden, unstuck in time and living an alternate life on the planet Tralfamadore.

Title: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE; Or the Children's Crusade
Written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 

Published by Dell Publishing Co, # 8029, copyright 1969. First Paperback Edition; 1st Dell printing so stated, October 1971 with no additional printings listed. Softcover book in stiff pictorial wraps. The book size is 4 by 6.5 inches, 215 pages.
 
Condition: The paperback book is in Near Fine condition. The book covers are bright and clean with only slight edge wear. The binding is square and tight and the hinges are firm with no cracks. The inside pages are cream colored; they are supple and lay flat. There are two owner’s name stamps on the front endpage. There are no other names, markings, tears or folds.
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The author "a fourth-generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod (and smoking too much), who, as an American infantry scout HORS DE COMBAT, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, 'The Florence of the Elbe,' a long time ago, and survived to tell the tale. This is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from. Peace." "A man tells his story of how he became unstuck in time and abducted by aliens." Made into a movie in 1972 with Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, and Eugene Roche.

This is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.

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