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Happy Birthday, Kurt Vonnegut
(NY), (Delacorte Press), (1982). A festschrift for Kurt Vonnegut on his sixtieth birthday. Issued in an edition of 500 copies and privately distributed. With original contributions by John Irving, John Updike, E.L. Doctorow, Richard Yates, Irwin Shaw, Norman Mailer, Garry Trudeau, Truman Capote, Jerzy Kosinski, Bernard V. O'Hare and many others, including family members. Compiled by Jill Krementz. Although not called for, this copy is signed by Vonnegut and dated on his 79th birthday. Laid in is a copy of the 1982 seating chart (Updike sat with Vonnegut; John Irving sat with Morley Safer). Faint spot to cloth at spine base; still fine in a fine slipcase. Uncommon signed, and with the seating chart. [#021787] SOLD

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