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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KURT VONNEGUT: A FETSCHRIFT FOR KURT VONNEGUT ON HIS SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY - INSCRIBED WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING
de Vonnegut, Kurt (subject); Krementz, Jill (editor)
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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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- Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 6102
- Título
- HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KURT VONNEGUT: A FETSCHRIFT FOR KURT VONNEGUT ON HIS SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY - INSCRIBED WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING
- Autor
- Vonnegut, Kurt (subject); Krementz, Jill (editor)
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First, Limited Edition
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- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Delacorte Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1982
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Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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Sobre 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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- Octavo
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- Facsimile
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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