Jailbird.
$1,199 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · Signed
New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence,, 1979. First edition, first printing, trade issue, signed by the author on the half-title. Vonnegut's "Watergate novel" is the clearest articulation of his sympathies with the American labour movement: the New York Times hailed it as his "Sermon on the Mount". Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt and silver, facsimile signature on front cover in gilt, blue endpapers, top edge orange. With dust jacket. Spine ends and upper corners slightly bumped, cloth lightly rubbed, contents clean; short closed tear to head of spine panel and middle of front joint, splash mark to verso, price-clipped, bright. Near-fine in like jacket.
- Year: 1979
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: first
- Binding: hardcover
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