Mother Night
by Vonnegut, Kurt Jr
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near fine
- Seller
-
Arvada, Colorado, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. First hardcover edition. Fine book in black and red binding with silver and black stamped lettering on spine. Dust jacket with $4.95 price, and code 0466 at bottom of front flap is fine except for two tiny tears at top of spine.
Synopsis
Mother Night is a novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut, first published in 1961. The title of the book is taken from Goethe's Faust. It is the story of Howard W. Campbell Jr. , an American, who moved to Germany directly after World War I and then later became alternately a well-known German language playwright and a Nazi propagandist. The action of the novel is narrated (through the use of metafiction) by Campbell himself.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Algonquin Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15708
- Title
- Mother Night
- Author
- Vonnegut, Kurt Jr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- fiction, spies, Greenwich Village
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction & Literature;
Terms of Sale
Old Algonquin Books
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About the Seller
Old Algonquin Books
Biblio member since 2006
Arvada, Colorado
About Old Algonquin Books
Old Algonquin Books. owned by John and Helen Dunning, was an open store in Denver from 1984-1994. and has been an online business since then. Member: Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA).All books with dust jackets have removable mylar covers on the jackets unless otherwise noted. First edition also means first printing unless otherwise noted.
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- Jacket
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