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VONNEGUT, Kurt.

Jailbird.

Jailbird.

Stock Code 119446

New York, Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1979

$171 USD
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First edition. A very good first edition of Kurt Vonnegut's ninth novel, often described as his 'Watergate novel' in its satyrical exploration of themes related to the Watergate scandal, the labour movement, and mid-century America. The New York Times Book Review called it Vonnegut's 'Sermon on the Mount,' and others have recognised its particularly extensive treatment of the issue of labour and his sympathies with the labour movement.

First edition; 8vo (21.5 x 14.5 cm); blue endpapers, illustrated frontispiece with tint in yellow, orange topstain; publisher's black cloth with author's signature in gilt to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt and silver, original uncut dustjacket lettered in black and blue and image of the author on the back cover (slightly rubbed); xxxviii, [iv], 246pp.

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