Cat's Cradle
Publication: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. First Edition.
Notes: "Truths are cyanide to human beings, body and soul"—dust jacket. An early novel from Vonnegut, described in Anatomy of Wonder as "absurdist science fiction." Published in an edition of 6000 copies (according to the Ahearns' Author Price Guide).
233 pages.
Edition + Condition: First edition (stated). A very good or better copy with a bookstore label on the front pastedown in a good-only price-clipped dust jacket. The jacket has a three-inch tear/snag on the back panel and a one inch tear at the base of the spine. Both tears are repaired with tape on the front
Item No: #8077
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