Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut - 1969: Or the Children's Crusade

Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1944. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition, Limited and Numbered. Very good with covers toned, and soiled. Lacks front endpaper.Internally fine. # 108 of 280..

New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1987; 1988. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 10pp (accordion-folded). Classic gallery publication, includes text "Entrance to the Museum of Lost Species" by Burroughs, plus an exhibition list and some halftone reproductions. Schottlaender B11.Unmarked copy, soft vertical bend, a little outer soil.

New York: Partisan Review, 1935. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 96pp, printed wrappers. Rare early issue, includes writing by Nelson Algren, Muriel Rukeyser, et al. Unmarked copy, chip at lead of spine, a bit of wear to lap edges, last two leaves have some edge tearing.

Paris: The Paris Review, 1955. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 128pp, printed wrappers. The scarce tenth issue of this essential postwar literary magazine, includes an interview with James Thurber. Unmarked copy (except for small erased letter to cover), light outer wear, typical toning of paper stock.

New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, (1988). First edition / First printing. Rust cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Carver's final collection. A summing up of his ouevre, as he wanted the work to be read. Some of the stories are in their original published versions, including those edited by Gordon Lish, and many have been restored to their pre-Lish versions, or reworked to a final polish.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. Signed by Robert Stone on the half-title page. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, black paper-covered boards. About fine in price-clipped, about fine dust jacket, with a tiny tear at the bottom middle of the rear panel. Pen/Faulkner Award winner.

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Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1962. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 80pp, printed wrappers. INSCRIBED by Irving Layton on the half-title page (LOVE in the title is indicated as "My favourite four-letter word"). Classic anthology, includes 5 poems by Leonard Cohen plus work by other eminent contributors. Owner name to half-title, no other markings, a bit of general wear.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, (1987). 50th Anniversary Edition. Gold hardcover in gold slipcase. Foreward by Christopher Tolkien. Condition: Fine / Like New. Photos are of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

New York: Siamese Banana Press, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 39 leaves, stapled wrappers. A scarce Siamese Banana collaboration from these two legends. Unmarked copy, a bit of wear and staple rust, light toning to back wrapper.