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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KURT VONNEGUT: A FETSCHRIFT FOR KURT VONNEGUT ON HIS SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY - INSCRIBED WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING
by Vonnegut, Kurt (subject); Krementz, Jill (editor)
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Delacorte Press, 1982. First, Limited Edition. A privately published volume for the occasion of Vonnegut's 60th birthday, containing stories, tributes, photos, and illustrations. Contributors include Art Buchwald, John Updike, Irwin Shaw, Richard Yates, Gail Godwin, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Norman Mailer, Garry Trudeau, George Plimpton, Truman Capote, and others. Uncommon inscribed. Printed in a run of 500 copies, though this one is unnumbered and out-of-series. Octavo (21.5cm); coarse red-orange cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; all edges gilt; publisher's matching cloth slipcase, with Vonnegut's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on right side; x,164,[2]pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page (Aug.7, 1999) within one of his trademark self-portraits to American bookseller Glenn Horowitz, who brokered the sale of Vonnegut's papers to Indiana University. Gentle sunning to spine, else very Near Fine in an about Near Fine slipcase, lightly edgeworn, with some corresponding sunning around the opening, and moderate foxing to one side. Housed in a custom clamshell slipcase and chemise.
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- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6102
- Title
- HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KURT VONNEGUT: A FETSCHRIFT FOR KURT VONNEGUT ON HIS SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY - INSCRIBED WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING
- Author
- Vonnegut, Kurt (subject); Krementz, Jill (editor)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First, Limited Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
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About the Seller
Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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Stephenson, Virginia
About Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Founded in 2010, Captain Ahab's Rare Books specializes in first editions of literature, genre fiction, film-related books and ephemera, zines, manuscript and archival material.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Inscribed
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
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