Description
The first edition, first printing of Breakfast of Champions or, Goodbye Blue Monday, by Kurt Vonnegut, in the publisher’s first state dust jacket.
Octavo, [16], 295pp, [7]. Publisher’s orange cloth, facsimile signature in gilt on front board, title in gilt and blue on spine. Stated “First Printing-1973” on the copyright page. Yellow topstain, with faint dust remnant. Illustrated throughout with drawings by the author. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $7.95 on the front flap, faint dampstain to verso at heel of the spine, light sunning along the spine, a very good example. Jacket design by Bob Giusti, photograph by Jill Krementz on the rear panel.
(Currey, 407) (Pieratt & Klinkowitz AK1)
