Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut - 1990

E-016: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good. 1990. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1990. 302 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. This is an unumbered copy of 250 limited edition copies signed by Kurt Vonnegut on the limitation page. Slipcase has light shelf-wear present. Bound in cloth boards with gilt titles present. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Eugene Debs Hartke (named after the famous early 20th century Socialist working class leader) describes an odyssey from college professor to prison inmate to prison warden back again to prisoner in another of Vonnegut's bitter satirical explorations of how and where (and why) the American dream begins to die. Employing his characteristic narrative device—a retrospective diary in which the protagonist retraces his life at its end, a desperate and disconnected series of events here in Hocus Pocus show Vonnegut with his mask off and his rhetorical devices unshielded. E-016; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .