41 BAUMAN RARE BOOKS “Listen: Billy Pilgrim Has Come Unstuck In Time” 45VONNEGUT, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death. New York, 1969. Octavo, original gilt-stamped blue cloth, dust jacket. $3800 First edition of Vonnegut’s masterpiece—his “most powerful novel”—a modern classic of time travel, metaphysics and the morality, or lack thereof, of war. “During the decade of the 1960s Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. emerged as one of the most influential and provocative writers of fiction in America… Slaughterhouse-Five, perhaps Vonnegut’s most powerful novel, presents two characters who can see beneath the surface to the tragic realities of human history but make no attempt to bring about change… The central event is the destruction of Dresden by bombs and fire storm—a catastrophe that Vonnegut himself witnessed as a prisoner of war” (Vinson, 1414-15). “A masterpiece… A key work” (Anatomy of Wonder II:1204). A fine copy. Frost’s A Boy’s Will, Inscribed By Him With The Poem “Dust In Snow” 46FROST, Robert. A Boy’s Will. London, 1913 [1923]. 12mo, original cream linen-paper wrappers, custom box. $8200 Fine first edition, second issue, Crane binding D, of Frost’s first publication, inscribed on the title page, “Dust of Snow. The way a crow / Shook down on me / The dust of snow / From a hemlock tree / Has given my heart / A change of mood / And saved some part Of a day I rued. Robert Frost 1914. For Ruth Lentz.” “The poems in A Boy’s Will are short lyrics, many of them love poems for Elinor [Frost’s wife]... The lyrics are arranged to chronicle a boy’s maturation from idealism and self-centeredness to a realization of love and an acceptance of loss” (DAB). “Dust of Snow,” the work Frost has inscribed on this copy, first appeared in the collection New Hampshire ten years after A Boy’s Will. One tiny mark to rear wrapper. A beautiful inscribed copy.
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