Cat's Cradle
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963.
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.
Price: $9,500