Mother Night

Mother Night (1962) by Kurt Vonnegut is the fictional memoir of Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American expatriate who became a celebrated Nazi propagandist during the Second World War while secretly transmitting coded intelligence to the Allies. Writing from an Israeli prison while awaiting trial for war crimes, Campbell reflects on a double life that has left him uncertain which of his two selves was real. Vonnegut states the novel's moral plainly in his introduction: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." First published as a Gold Medal paperback original in 1961. This first hardcover edition published by Harper and Row, 1966. Adapted for film in 1996, starring Nick Nolte.

Hardcover. First Hardcover Edition, First Printing. Octavo, bound in burgundy cloth-backed boards. New York: Harper & Row, 1966. #10405.
Fine in nearly fine dust jacket with a tiny closed tear near base of spine.