Nice Signed UK

Mother Night [UK]

Vonnegut, Kurt

Publication: London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. First British edition.

Notes: A novel about Howard W. Campbell, Jr., an American living in Germany who becomes a Nazi propagandist. First published in 1962 as a paperback original, this hardcover edition includes a new introduction by Vonnegut in which he recounts his experience of the Dresden fire bombing, which would become the central event in Slaughterhouse Five, written a few years later.

In the introduction Vonnegut surmises that had he been born in Germany rather than the United States, he probably would have become a Nazi. This book is an exploration of that idea.

xviii, 202 pages.

Edition + Condition: First UK edition (states "First published..." with no additional printings on the copyright page). A very good copy in a jacket has tanned a bit at the spine and has a 1-1/2-inch tear to the front panel.

This copy is signed by Vonnegut on the front free endpaper. Very scarce in nice condition and signed.

Housed in a black clamshell box with a red leather label of the sort that Vonnegut's screenprinter, Joe Petro III, commissioned. From the collection of Tom Garner.

ISBN: 0224614584

Item No: #364622

Price: $2,500