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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0399135243 . A smart first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket. SIGNED and dated by author Kurt Vonnegut on the front free endpaper; Vonnegut's fictional autobiography of a West Point graduate in charge of the evacuation of US personnel from the Saigon rooftops at the close of the Vietnam War. He unknowingly fathers an illegitimate son who searches for his father and finds him just as he is being arrested for masterminding the prison break of 10,000 convicts; 8vo; [1-6] 7-302 [303-4] pages; Signed by Author .

New York, London, Melbourne, Toronto: Seven Stories Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 158322713X . A Later printing in Fine condition housed in an equally unblemished dust-jacket; Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without a Country tells the story of an American soldier, Howard W. Campbell, Jr., who is forced to leave his country and family behind when he is drafted into the army in World War II. Upon arriving in Germany, Campbell is captured by the Nazis and sent to a concentration camp, where he is tortured and humiliated. After escaping the camp, Campbell trekking through Nazi-occupied Europe, he finally reaches neutral Switzerland, where he is granted political asylum. Campbell lives in exile in Switzerland for the rest of the war, never to return to his home country.A Man Without a Country is a poignant and humorous story of one man's fight for freedom and his quest to return to his beloved country. Vonnegut's adept writing brings the characters and… Read More

New York: Delacorte Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1981. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0440065933 . A attractive first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition, traces of foxing to page edges in alike dust-jacket with minor edge-wear. Boldly SIGNED by author Kurt Vonnegut directly on the half title page; A collection of speeches, letters, stories, and other miscellany woven together by the distinctive, ironic narrative that is the hallmark of this beloved author; 8vo; [i-viii] ix-xviii [xix-xxii], 330 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0399137378 . First edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket; On February 17, 2001, the universe, tired of expanding, shrinks back to February 17, 1991, and as time marches on once more to the year 2001, Vonnegut and Trout and everyone else will have to do exactly what they did the first time throught the decade, for good or ill: marry the wrong person, bet on the wrong horse. Whatever! Ten years of deja vu all over again! Told with Vonnegut's characteristic irony and unconventional attitude; 8vo ; [i-x], xi-xiv, [xv-xvi], 219, [220-4] pages .