GOD BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER, OR PEARLS BEFORE SWINE - UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY

Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt

Published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston / Crane Duplicating Service, Inc., New York & Barnstable, MA, 1965

First Printing, second [proof] state. Octavo (22cm); publisher's galley sheets, comb-bound into pale yellow printed card wrappers with titling printed in black; 219,[1]pp. Some toning, dust-soil, and a few faint tide-marks to wrapper extremities, faint diagonal crease to upper right corner of front wrapper, with contents clean and complete, and the white comb binding sound; holograph publication date (5 April 65) at lower front cover; Very Good+, housed in a custom slipcase and chemise. Vonnegut's fifth novel, centered around a millionaire who develops a conscience and leaves New York for the midwest, where he attempts to disperse his fortune among the residents of a small Indiana town. Uncommon in the proof state; while no hard numbers are known for how many such proofs were printed, marketing materials for Crane from this period suggest they would not undertake a job printing fewer than 11 copies of a proof, with other known examples from this period numbering between two to three dozen. Ahearn APG 006b; cf.Pieratt, Huffman & Klinkowitz AF1. Seller Inventory # 6904

Bibliographic Details

Title: GOD BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER, OR PEARLS ...
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston / Crane Duplicating Service, Inc., New York & Barnstable, MA
Publication Date: 1965
Edition: First Edition.