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Published by Random House Publishing Group, 2012
ISBN 10: 0385343752ISBN 13: 9780385343756
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Published by Dial Press Trade Paperback (edition Illustrated), 2014
ISBN 10: 0385343760ISBN 13: 9780385343763
Seller: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Illustrated. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.
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Published by Random House, 2020
ISBN 10: 0593133013ISBN 13: 9780593133019
Seller: Goodwill of Colorado, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. This item is in overall good condition. Covers and dust jackets are intact but may have minor wear including slight curls or bends to corners as well as cosmetic blemishes including stickers. Pages are intact but may have minor highlighting/ writing. Binding is intact; however, spine may have slight wear overall. Digital codes may not be included and have not been tested to be redeemable and/or active. Minor shelf wear overall. Please note that all items are donated goods and are in used condition. Orders shipped Monday through Friday! Your purchase helps put people to work and learn life skills to reach their full potential. Orders shipped Monday through Friday. Your purchase helps put people to work and learn life skills to reach their full potential. Thank you!.
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Published by Delacorte Press 2012, 2012
First Edition
Hardcover First Printing. First Edition. Small remainder dot bottom edge, fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.
Published by Vintage Classics, 2013
ISBN 10: 0099582937ISBN 13: 9780099582939
Seller: MusicMagpie, Stockport, United Kingdom
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Condition: Very Good. 1712138551. 4/3/2024 10:02:31 AM.
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Published by Vintage Classics, 2014
ISBN 10: 0099582945ISBN 13: 9780099582946
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
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Published by Delacorte Press / Random House, New York , New York, 2012
ISBN 10: 0385343752ISBN 13: 9780385343756
Seller: Falls Bookstore, Readsboro, VT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Black paper -wrapped binding with gold colored print on spine. Tight, sound and unmarked. 453 pages including index. Dust jacket in myar and not price-cliipped ( $ 35.00).
Published by Delacorte Press, 2012
ISBN 10: 1624902871ISBN 13: 9781624902871
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. This is a fine paperback copy, black spine.
Published by Delacort, New York, 2012
ISBN 10: 0385343752ISBN 13: 9780385343756
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 1st. Edited and with an introduction by Dan Wakefield. Bound in publisher's original black paper with spine stamped in gilt. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches. 436 pages.
Published by Delacorte Press, New York, 2012
Seller: Back in Time Rare Books, ABAA, FABA, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. 6 1/2 X 9 1/2 Inches. 436 PP. First printing copy with full and complete numberline to the "1" on the copyright page. Original price of $35.00 on inside DJ flap.
Published by New York: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1982., 1982
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed grayish green wrappers. The wraps are very slightly bumped with a small area of rubbing to the rear wrap. [viii] & 93 pages. There is some very light foxing to the fore-edge and to the top & bottom edges. The wrappers are slightly bowed. Very good. Among the contents are commemorative tributes to John Cheever by Saul Bellow, to Archibald MacLeish by Howard Nemerov, to Marcel Breuer by I. M. Pei and to William Saroyan by Kurt Vonnegut.
Published by NY: Delacorte Press, 2012
Seller: Peter Lenz Bookseller, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine hardcover in a Fine dj (slight shelf wear to lower edge of dj spine). First Edition, First Printing. Edited, and with an introduction, by Dan Wakefield. 436pp. A nice copy: clean text, tight binding, and a clean and bright dj.
Published by NY: Delacorte, 2012
Seller: Peter Lenz Bookseller, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine hardcover in a Fine dj. First Edition, First Printing. Edited, and with an introduction, by Dan Wakefield. 436pp.
Published by American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 1998
ISBN 10: 0915974444ISBN 13: 9780915974443
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Forewords by John Updike and Will Barnet. Quarto. [112]pp. Illustrated in color and black and white. Gray cloth stamped in black. A fine copy, without a dust jacket as issued. Reproduces artwork by Dimitri Hadzi, which incorporates text by Seamus Heaney (and reproduces a photograph of Heaney), Jacob Lawrence ("Builders"), Leonard Baskin (and printing a quote by Baskin), Chuck Close, Larry Rivers, Kurt Vonnegut, and more. Some of the artwork reproduced incorporates text by Allen Ginsberg, Reynolds Price, John Hollander, and more.
Published by Random House US, 2020
Seller: Collectors' Bookstore, Deurne, Belgium
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition thus, very fine condition. Love, kurt: the vonnegut love letters, 1941-1945 Special Collection by Kurt Vonnegut. Published by Random House US in 2020. Hardcover. What makes this title so special is its limited availability. - Publishers Weekly. Collectible item in excellent condition.
Published by American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 1998
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First Edition. Quarto (31.25cm); pale gray cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; 112pp; illus. Though not called for, this copy has been signed by Kurt Vonnegut on the half-title page, with an original hand-drawn self-portrait dated May 12, 1999. Small scuff to lower margin of copyright page, tiny smudge at mid-spine, else Fine. Housed in a custom clamshell case. Nicely-produced volume collecting works of art by fifty Academy members. With a foreword by John Updike, including works by Kurt Vonnegut (portrait of Kilgore Trout), Paul Cadmus, Leonard Baskin, Frank O. Gehry, Jasper Johns, Wolf Kahn, Jacob Lawrence, Mary Frank, Roy Lichtenstein, Paul Resika, Richard Meier, George Segal, and others. Uncommon signed.
Published by Jonathan Cape, 1970
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
First edition. DW. Jonathan Cape. Presentation copy from Vonnegut to Philip Oakes who reviewed his books for The Sunday Times and became a friend. On the front free endpaper, "FOR PHILIP OAKES - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. MARCH 19, 1970". The author did not let the ink dry long enough and some of the "Kurt" has offset on to the front pastedown! Loosely inserted is an envelope with a typed address to Mrr. [sic] Philip Oakes, THE SUNDAY TIMES. with a typed return address Vonnegut W. Barnstable, Mass. USA. With the word "AIRMAIL" and a long underline across in the author's own hand. The envelope contains a very friendly letter, on one side typed and signed by Vonnegut on his own headed writing paper. It thanks Philip for his helpful review. It also includes some very sarcastic remarks about Nixon and one of the local peace demonstrations to the end. There is very slight shelfwear along the lower edge of the boards, slight foxing to endpapers and edges o/w a clean and sound copy in a wrapper that has two close tears and creases along bottom edge of front cover and sl. signs of shelf wear to other extremities.
Published by Original manuscript. -2001., 1974
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
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"Penthouse is working on an article about things people think are better than fucking. They asked me, and I told them about eating frozen blueberries from wild bushes in northern Finland. They were like sherbert, and better than fucking anyday." (Letter, January 5, 1978) "Here it is Christmas eve again, and I have failed again to persuade a wife that Jesus was born tonight and not tomorrow morning [ ] I ask them: Were the Wise Men wearing pajamas and rubbing sleepers out of their eyes and waiting for the coffee to perk?" (Letter, December 24, 1987) "I find it painful to read the in-depth truths about my friend John Cheever. I would rather not know. As my life nears its end, I suppose I could write a sort of Movable Feast, but that would be like Captain Kangaroo's suddenly turning into a rattlesnake." (Letter, November 25, 1991) "Thank goodness you and Ollie and Phil are still around. Practically everybody I ever cared about is dead now. I never expected to put my own generation to bed. Now the funerals I go to are for their children." (Letter, March 2, 1999) Kurt Vonnegut and Robert Poindexter Pace both grew up in Indiana, attending the same High School (two years apart), and later serving in the military during World War II (Vonnegut's experiences in Europe were later quarried for Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)). The two men didn't meet, however, until after the war when they both found themselves working in the offices of General Electric in Schenectady, New York. Vonnegut, after a spell at the University of Chicago on the G.I. Bill (having previously withdrawn from Cornell for military service), was employed as a technical writer and publicist, obtaining the job with the help of his older brother, Bernard, already at GE. He liked the job, and a handful of the men he worked with during these years, chiefly Pace, became lifelong friends. In his biography of Vonnegut, Charles Shields remarks that he was fond of the "maleness" and "camaraderie" of the office, and these letters to Pace are correspondingly unrestrained. Vonnegut clearly loves his old friend and feels able to write anything, however rude, personal, or solemn. The particular bond with Pace may owe something to their shared background (in one letter, Vonnegut addresses Pace as his "Dear old Hoosier buddy, dear Bob"; Hoosier, a demonym for the people of Indiana), allowing Vonnegut to reminisce freely about his father (for example), an architect whose buildings in Indiana were familiar to Pace. In June 1976, responding to a newspaper cutting sent by Pace reporting that the architect Evens Woolen was living in Vonnegut Sr's self-designed house, Vonnegut writes: "It is sweet to me that [Woolen] lives in the best thing my father was ever allowed to do, his own home. My old man never had a client who would let him express anything he himself believed. He was bitter at the end, and even toward the middle, come to think of it. Hi ho." In 1994, he returns to the subject (and the house): "Yours of March 29 discovered me returning from a visit to Indianapolis and Culver, both of which have been neutron bombed. The buildings still stood, but the people were gone. The most interesting building my father ever designed, our house at 44th and Illinois, to which I bade farewell when I was 10, is a frequent stop on house tours now. It still has my parents' monograms in the leaded glass window in the front door. My daughter Nanny Prior, now 39, was with me. She cried when she saw the monograms. I didn't I may have become a sociopath." ~ Failing health is a running theme (always, however, animated by Vonnegut's wit). The earliest, and shortest, letter here, dated January 23 1974, refers to Pace's recent back injury ("That's horrible news about your back"), and encourages his friend to keep in touch ("I would love to hear from you often, have Jill [Vonnegut's partner, and later wife] feed you from time to time, and help you to get a big money job, if you want one."). Pace seems to have had intermittent problems with alcohol. In October 1974, Vonnegut remarks that "[t]he business about not smoking or drinking worries me. I take a dim view of steam engines without safety valves", but by 1978 he is starting to worry about his friend, "since you hadn't written for so long. It's good to hear you're O.K., if vaguely sozzled now and then". By November 1985, it is "[a]lways good to hear from you, as long as you don't suggest that you might drink yourself to death. Don't ever do that again." The letters, like the novels, are haunted by death. Ollie Lyon, a GE alumnus and fellow friend is, in June 1976, a "new widower [:] a lonesome, beautiful guy, with no wife any more and his two kids gone". The following December Vonnegut picks up the story, "I assume you know that Ollie's son Phil was killed in a motorcycle accident a couple of months ago. [ ] He seemed so horribly hoodooed that I couldn't think of anything to say to him for a while". "[S]o life goes on", he concludes (echoing Slaughterhouse-Five's refrain, "so it goes"); "I am always amazed by how it goes on and on. I often think people are too good for life." In 1987 (Christmas Eve), he writes of a school reunion ("School 43, the James Whitcomb Riley School"): "We showed no interest in what we had become. We just mooned and marveled at what we used to be. What keen little kids! What brave adventurers!", before relating that his "best pal" at the school, Bob Forslund, who served "in the Navy at the Battle of the coral Sea, and came home to flunk out of Butler and become a machinist at Allison", had "commited suicide two weeks before the reunion because his wife had died, and he was just to [sic] damn lonesome." "The trip into the Afterlife" he writes (September 1, 2000), after being unconscious for three days following a fire at his New York home ("a most agreeable near-death experience"), "is not a blue tunnel, as so many have reported, but a waiting passenger train, all lit up inside." ~ The letters ar.
Published by np, np, 1930
Seller: Manhattan Rare Book Company, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Manuscript / Paper Collectible First Edition Signed
Custom box. Condition: Very Good. First edition. RARE AND REVEALING COLLECTION OF FAMILY LETTERS WRITTEN BY KURT VONNEGUT. This collection of 12 letters, most of which are addressed to Vonnegut's father, brother (Bernard), sister-in-law (Bow), and family as a whole, chronicle the life, rise, and development of one of America's most beloved writers. Taken together, these letters - in which he begins to test the possibilities of a career in writing - are a unique glimpse into Vonnegut's psychic and writerly interior, and bubble with the experimentality, imagination, and distinctive prose that would define Vonnegut's most famous works in the decades to follow. Housed together in handsome archival case. II. Letters 1-2: EARLY LIFE (Early 1930s) "Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle" and "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation" (Dinitia Smith, New York Times). These first two letters are written by a young Kurt Vonnegut to his father. Born into a German American Midwest family in 1922, Vonnegut's parents suffered enormously from the effects of the Great Depression; his father's renowned architecture firm got hit hard, and his mother succumbed to drug and alcohol abuse, eventually taking her own life in 1944. The Great-Depression-era pessimism--as well as the general climate of social and political unrest in which young Vonnegut came of age--would greatly influence the tenor of his writing. Although these letters were penned at a very young age, they still reflect the forms and attitudes that Vonnegut would make use of in his most famous books. His drawings, which appear in Letter 2 as well as in other places throughout this collection, testify to the "open secret" that was Vonnegut's fine art career; not only did he create graphics for Slaughterhouse Five , (1969) and Breakfast of Champions, but also he was a prolific doodler, as he used art to think through, plot, and develop much of his fiction ("So It Goes": Drawings by Kurt Vonnegut, Johnson Museum of Art ). Another aspect of note in these letters are his descriptions of insects, both his own "daddy long legs" and his sister Alice's "oscar bug." Whether the images of the bugs in amber in Slaughterhouse Five or Newt's spider's web in Cat's Cradle (1963), Vonnegut's insect fascination persisted throughout his life, the metaphorics of which played an important role in his fiction. II. Letters 3-8: THE UNIVERSITY YEARS (1943-44) Vonnegut "uses the rhetorical potential of the short sentence and the short paragraph better than anyone now writing, often getting a rich comic or dramatic effect by isolating a single sentence in a separate paragraph or excerpting a phrase from context for a bizarre chapter heading. The apparent simplicity and ordinariness of his writing masks its efficient power." (Robert Scholes, The Fabulators). Letters 3-8 were composed roughly around the time when Vonnegut had withdrawn from Cornell University to enlist in the Army. Reporting initially in March 1943 to Fort Bragg, North Carolina for basic training, Vonnegut then received instruction in mechanical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (based in Pittsburgh, the location from which Letter 3 was written) as well as the University of Tennessee (referenced in Letter 6) as part of the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP). Due to the Army's need for soldiers to support the D-Day invasion, Vonnegut was sent home to Indiana to train in an infantry battalion, ultimately getting deployed in the end of 1944 - as he explains in Letter 8. What is most remarkable here is the emergence of a trademark Vonnegut style--short, pithy sentences, acerbic humor rendered in dialogue, the blending of vernacular and technical writing to offer commentary on war and the social order, the integration of song lyrics, headlines, and other pieces of pop culture--that would mark his post-war masterpieces and earn him the status of.