Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade

Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut follows Billy Pilgrim, an American soldier who survives the firebombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war and becomes, in the novel's telling, unstuck in time. The Dresden bombing was something Vonnegut himself witnessed, and the first chapter of the novel is an account of his twenty-year struggle to write about it. The Tralfamadorian science fiction elements are less a speculative vision than a formal response to the impossibility of narrating atrocity in a straight line. First edition published by Delacorte, 1969.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, turquoise cloth stampled in gilt, red and black. New York: Delacorte, 1969. Nebula Award nominee (1969). Hugo Award nominee (1970). #11280.
Fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with only minor toning and some trivial wear.