Cat's Cradle
$9,500 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · Signed · In dust jacket
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut on the front free endpaper. [iv], 233 pp. Bound in publisher's sky blue leatherette over green cloth stamped in gilt and blue; green topstain. Housed in a custom raw silk clamshell case with morocco spine label stamped in gilt. Near Fine with faint wear to spine ends, trivial staining to top edge of textblock. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light fading to orange lettering at spine, even age-toning, tiny spot of white paint at front joint, minimal wear at extremities. A signed copy of Vonnegut's postmodern satire with themes of nuclear apocalpyse, written around the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, set in the fictional Caribbean island republic of San Lorenzo.
- Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Year: 1963
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: first
- Binding: unknown
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