Description

• First Thus [Penguin Books, London, 1965]; 179pp + 8 pages of publisher’s ads; illustrated card covers [using La Course de Taureaux by Joan Miró],  lightly rubbed on edges, Australian distributor’s price sticker [65c] to front, an essentially fine copy
• Vonnegut’s breakthrough novel – he would soon follow this up with Slaughterhouse-5 & cement his place as one of the great American novelists
• Published in Penguin’s Science Fiction series