Description

FIRST EDITION printed for members of the First Edition Society and SIGNED by the author on the first white endpaper.
Vonnegut's 11th novel, in which he examines the evolutionary aberration of the human "big brain". In 2014, Galápagos was adapted for a multi-media performance (with theatre, orchestra and video) by Tucker Marder and Christian Scheider .
With a two-page coloured frontispiece by Anita Kunz, and a two-page coloured frontispiece by Anita Kunz. EXCLUSIVE PREFACE in which the author recalls his trip to the Galapagos Islands: "I am now pleased to congratulate [my wife, who quickly stopped going ashore] for her honest responses to the unpleasantness of the islands and the moral blankness of Nature in the raw."

FIRST EDITIONprivately printed for the members of the First Edition Society. SIGNED by the author on the first free endpaper.
*Vonnegut's 11th novel, an exploration of Darwinism and the evolutionary aberration of humans' "big brains". In 2014, Galápagos was adapted into a live multi-media performance by Tucker Marder and Christian Scheider.
With a two page color frontispiece by Anita Kunz and an EXCLUSIVE PREFACE by Kurt Vonnegut, in which the author evokes his own travels to the Galápagos islands : "I am now pleased to congratulate [my wife, who quickly stopped going ashore] for her honest responses to the unpleasantness of the islands and the moral blankness of Nature in the raw."
Publishers' dark blue morocco binding with gilt decor; all edges gilt