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Slaughterhouse Five or The Children's Crusade
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good book, cloth edges lightly toned; very good dust jacket, spine toned and rubbed, spine ends lightly chipped, joints rub
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Seymour Lawrence / Delacorte Press, 1969. First edition, third printing. Hardcover, octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt and red and black titles, pictorial dust jacket, black endpapers, 186 pp. Very good book, cloth edges lightly toned; very good dust jacket, spine toned and rubbed, spine ends lightly chipped, joints rubbed, corners and edges to covers lightly worn. Jacket design by Paul Bacon; photography by Bossi.
Synopsis
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death (1969) is an anti-war science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut about World War II experiences and journeys through time of a soldier called Billy Pilgrim.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2087
- Title
- Slaughterhouse Five or The Children's Crusade
- Author
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
- Illustrator
- Jacket design by Paul Bacon; photography by Bossi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt and red and black titles, pictorial dust jacket, black endpapers, 186 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good book, cloth edges lightly toned; very good dust jacket, spine toned and rubbed, spine ends lightly chipped, joints rub
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, third printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Seymour Lawrence / Delacorte Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
Biblio member since 2023
Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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