Missing In Action

"Missing in Action" by Kurt  Vonnegut

Signed Book, Limited Edition  of 100

This hand-made signed limited edition book is the May 29, 1945 letter written home by PFC Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., concerning the events of the death-defying months after he was taken prisoner of war on December 19, 1944. Vonnegut's searing and wry recounting of that experience laid the foundation for his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five.  An edition of 100 numbered copies, signed and dated in ink by Kurt Vonnegut on May 29, 2004. This edition includes a bound-in, hand-pulled silkscreen of "Kilgore Trout", titled and signed in pencil by Kurt Vonnegut. Published by Origami Express, May 29, 2004 — 49 years to the day he originally wrote the letter. Text was hand-set in Joseph Blumenthal's Emerson type and printed by Larkspur Press, on a hand-fed C&P letterpress on heavy warm white Rising Stonehenge cotton deckled paper. Half-bound and corners in brown Nigerian goatskin, hand-made marble papered boards, slipcased in Record Basalt cloth and spine gold gilding. Book dimensions: 9 x 1/2 x 11 inches.

Price: $1,000.

"Free at Last" Portfolio

"Free At Last" Freedom Portfolio by Kurt Vonnegut

Signed Portfolio, Limited Edition of 15

This hand-made signed limited edition portfolio contains 15 hand-pulled silkscreen prints by the author.

The portfolio contains: one cover print, one colophon sheet, one foreword print, ten "Bird Cage" prints, all signed and numbered in pencil by Kurt Vonnegut, one "Kilgore Trout" print, signed and numbered in pencil by Vonnegut, and one "Free At Last" print, signed and numbered with a self-portrait drawing in pencil by Vonnegut.

This portfolio edition of 15 numbered copies is hand-printed on heavy warm white Rising Stonehenge cotton deckled paper, 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches, and is loose-bound in a hand-printed cover wrap and housed in a hand-made clam-shell box, 6 1/2 x 1 3/16 x 9 3/4 inches, covered in a dark blue Asahi Japanese cloth, lined with hand-made marbled paper with a brown Nigerian goatskin label titled in gold gilding.

Published by Kurt Vonnegut and Joe Petro III in 2004.

Price: $4,500.

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Armageddon in Retrospect
by Kurt Vonnegut

The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his death — a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace, and humanity’s tendency toward violence.

Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace. Imbued with Vonnegut’s trademark rueful humor, the pieces range from a visceral nonfiction recollection of the destruction of Dresden during World War II — an essay that is as timely today as it was then — to a painfully funny short story about three Army privates and their fantasies of the perfect first meal upon returning home from war, to a darker, more poignant story about the impossibility of shielding our children from the temptations of violence. Also included are Vonnegut’s last speech as well as an assortment of his artwork, and an introduction by the author’s son, Mark Vonnegut.

Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Putnam Adult (April 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0399155082
ISBN-13:978-0399155086

Mr. Vonnegut's work is featured in...

The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers

by Donald Friedman

Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Mid-List Press (September 11, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0922811768
ISBN-13: 978-0922811762

A Man without a Country
by Kurt Vonnegut, Daniel Simon (Editor)

Hardcover: 146 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press (September 15, 2005)
ISBN: 158322713X

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Vonnegut/Steadman Portfolio

This portfolio contains an original copy of the catalogue Modern Fiction and Art: Prints by Contemporary Authors published by the University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Ky., 1999.

The catalogue has been signed in ink by Ralph Steadman, Kurt Vonnegut, Joe Petro lll, printmaker, and Rachael Sadinsky, Curator of the University of Kentucky Art Museum. Catalogue is embossed with printers chop mark and numbered in ink 1/50 through 50/50.

The portfolio contains two original color silkscreens.

Messenger by Kurt Vonnegut: 
Hand printed by at Petro III Graphics, 2000.
In five colors on Coventry cotton paper 12 x 16 3/4", signed and numbered in pencil.

Red Shark by Ralph Steadman: 
Hand printed by at Petro III Graphics, 2000.
In two colors on Coventry cotton paper 12 x 16 3/4", signed and numbered in pencil.

The portfolio has been published in an edition of 50 by Petro III Graphics, Lexington, Kentucky, 2001. Signed and numbered by Ralph Steadman and Kurt Vonnegut 1/50 through 50/50.

Eight Artist Proofs were made for the artists' personal use.

Price: $1500.00