The Invisible Writing.

First Danube edition. Octavo, original cloth. A full page inscription from Kurt Vonnegut to friends Walter and Sylvia Stockmayer which reads, “Dear Sylvia and Walter-I hope this finds you happy and well. The copy this book which you gave me fell to pieces in Key West about a month ago. I read it all, but it did not survive life on the beach. This turns out to have been an especially magical book to read at this time in my life, and I thank you for calling it to my attention. Love Kurt April 23, 1975.” The recipient was Walter Stockmayer, a close friend of Vonnegut’s, who is mentioned in his novel A Breakfast of Champions, where the narrator provides a sketch of the molecule that makes up plastic, accrediting it to Professor Walter H. Stockmayer of Dartmouth College, whom the narrator would like to be. He was recognized as one of the twentieth century pioneers of polymer science. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.