Cat's Cradle. With early signature by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
$10,000 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · Signed · In dust jacket
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963. Signed by the author as Kurt Vonnegut Jr. in an early hand. He dropped the Jr. after his father's death in the early 1970's. First edition / First printing. First state with green topstain. Green cloth, with blue front board. Fine in fine dust jacket. An beautiful copy of a cheaply made book, a high point of Twentieth Century literature and arguably Vonnegut's best. Jerry Garcia named the Grateful Dead's Publishing company Ice Nine, after a fictional substance that plays a key role in the book.
- Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston,
- Year: 1963
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: first
- Binding: hardcover
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