Slaughterhouse-Five: or The Children’s Crusade. Written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt, publisher’s jacket. First Edition, First Printing (stated). Published in 1969 by Delacorte Press. Original dust jacket, with correct code of 0369 at foot of rear flap, price clipped front flap. Vonnegut’s classic anti–war novel based on his own experiences as a POW during the Allied bombing of Dresden in 1945