Happy Birthday, Wanda June: A Play

by Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.

$3,900 · Offered by Biblio · No longer available

First edition · Signed · In dust jacket

New York: Delacorte Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. The author's first published play, issued in an edition of 3000 copies. It was filmed in 1971 with Rod Steiger in the lead role. Illustrated with half-tone photographs by Jill Krementz (mostly) and it includes an introduction by Vonnegut, "About This Play." First edition (stated first printing, with orange endsheets). A near fine copy in a jacket with light wear along the top edge. This copy was signed by Vonnegut with a self-portrait on 11/11/01 on his 79th birthday. Somewhat uncommon signed. This copy, formerly in the collection of Tom Garner, is housed in an attractive clamshell box of the sort commissioned by Vonnegut's fine-art printer, Joe Petro III.

  • Publisher: Delacorte Press
  • Year: 1971
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Printing: first
  • Binding: hardcover

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