Franklin Library leather edition of Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death," a Limited edition, Illustrated by Alan E. Cober, one of the SIGNED 60 series, Personally signed by KURT VONNEGUT, signature protected by onion-skin paper, published in 1978. Bound in camel tan leather, the book has tan moire silk end leaves, hubbed spine, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, satin book marker, gold gilding on three edge--in FINE condition. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., who lived from 1922-2007, was an American novelist and short story writer with a career spanning over 50 years.  Born in INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, he attended CORNELL University but dropped out and enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1943.  23-year-old Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was deployed to Europe to fight in WW II and was captured by the Germans at the BATTLE OF THE BULGE. Dresden was known as the "Venice of the North, but the Allies bombed the city on February 13, 1945, and over 130,000 died in the firestorm, more than at Hiroshima or Nagasaki. The firebombing was the largest massacre in the history of Europe. In Dresden, Billy is visited by Howard Campbell, an 
American who had become a Nazi. BILLY PILGRIM, a man "unstuck in time," narrates the action including his kidnapping by omniscient and fatalistic aliens from the planet TRALFAMADORE. There were five sexes on Tralfamadore. The Tralfamadorians tried to help Billy imagine sex in the invisible dimension where there could be no Earthling babies without male homosexuals. . ."it was gibberish to Billy." Billy blinked in 1965, traveled in time to 1958 where he was at a banquet in honor of a Little League team of which his son Robert was a member. Billy became rich working as an optometrist. He had two children with his wife, Valencia. Billy Pilgrim later got onto a chartered airplane in Ilium, New York, twenty-five years later. Billy is later visited by KILGORE TROUT, a science fiction writer. Originally Vonnegut's books were published as "science fiction."  In 1963, he insisted that the SF label be removed from his books and his novels then began appearing on best-seller lists. Vonnegut has published over twenty volumes, including novels, short-stories, essays and plays, but 
"Slaughterhouse-Five" remains his most famous work.  173 pages.  I offer Combined shipping.