Souvenir typescript, one page, 8.5 x 11, signed at the conclusion in blue felt tip by Vonnegut. The opening to his novel Slapstick, beginning: "To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon. Smoke from a cooking fire on the terrazzo floor of the lobby of the Empire State Building on the Island of Death floats out over the ailanthus jungle which Thirty-fourth Street has become. The pavement on the floor of the jungle is all crinkum-crankum—heaved this way and that by frostheaves and roots. There is a small clearing in the jungle. A blue-eyed, lantern-jawed old white man, who is two meters tall and one hundred years old, sits in the clearing on what was once the back seat of a taxicab. I am that man. My name is Dr. Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain." In fine condition.
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