Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death
by: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 5th pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with $5.95 on flap with the number 8021 underneath it, and the number 0369 on the bottom rear flap, indicating a true first edition jacket. Stated fifth printing June 1969. Light blue boards, gold and red titles on spine, gold facsimile signature on front board. There is tanning and light soil to the dust jacket. No markings. Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber's son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee.