Cat’s Cradle.

VONNEGUT, Kurt.

Item Number: 116365

New York: Holt, Rinehart Winston, 1963.

First edition of Vonnegut’s absurdist satire of the clash between science and religion in the nuclear age. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed on the half-title page by the author with a drawing of a self-caricature, “Kurt Vonnegut Aug. 28, 1997 Sagaponack.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ben Feder, Inc. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.

"One of Kurt Vonnegut’s most continuously inventive and delightfully complex novels," Cat’s Cradle "makes a mockery of science, religion, patriotism, sex—everything; and it concludes in the only way it possibly can, with the End of the World" (Science Fiction 100 Best). Chosen by Modern Library as one of the best 100 novels of the 20th century.