Description
The first edition, first printing of Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut.
Octavo, xv, [3], 298pp, [1]. Bound in the publisher’s black paper-covered boards with yellow cloth spine, titles in black and red on spine. “First Delacorte Printing” stated on the copyright page. Light dust remnant along top edge of text block. One of 5,000 copies printed. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $5.95 on the front flap, faint shelf wear, bright illustrations along the spine, a near fine example.
(Pieratt, AG1) (Currey 407)
A collection of twenty-five short works, including “Harrison Bergeron,” “The Hyannis Port Story,” and the title story. Many stories previously appeared in Canary in a Cat House (1961).
