Breakfast of Champions or, Goodbye Blue Monday! by Kurt Vonnegut Jr - May 1973

New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, May 1973. First Edition. "First printing—1973" on copyright page. $7.95 price on front flap. Date code "0573" on back flap. Orange linen over boards with gilt facsimilie signature on front board and black and gilt printing to spine. Very Good book in a Good jacket. Price and prior owner's name penciled to first blank page. Text block unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Jacket spine faded. Edgewear with several short tears and chipping at spine ends. Not a Book Club Edition. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 295 pages.

A discourse on the nature of truth written when America was in the throes of Nixon, Watergate, and the unraveling of the Vietnam War. Itinerant science fiction author Kilgore Trout learns that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is an examination of war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution.