Vintage Literary Satire — Breakfast of Champions (1973) — Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | Book Club Edition with Author Drawings

Here’s a 1973 Book Club Edition of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s Breakfast of Champions—a landmark in literary satire.

It skewers American culture with Vonnegut’s sharp humor and playful meta-fiction.
Inside you’ll find his unmistakable black-and-white drawings throughout, plus the bold red-orange dust jacket and orange cloth boards with a facsimile signature.

Clean, complete, and ready for your modern classics shelf.

Quick Specs

• Item Type: Hardcover book with dust jacket
• Size: 9 × 6 × 1 inches
• Material: Cloth boards, paper pages, printed dust jacket
• Color: Red-orange/yellow jacket; orange cloth with green facsimile signature
• Origin or Maker: Not provided
• Year or Era: 1973 (copyright page shown)
• GENRE: Literary Satire / Postmodern Fiction
• Language / Pages: English, 303 pages

Edition & Features

• Edition/Printing: Book Club Edition (stated on dust jacket flap; pictured)
• Dust Jacket: Present
• Illustrations/Maps/Plates: Author’s black-and-white drawings throughout (sample pages shown)
• Extras: Facsimile signature stamped on front board

Condition Grade: Good

• Notes: Jacket shows edge wear, small chips/softened corners, and light surface rubs; boards show corner bumps and minor fray at spine foot; textblock edges toned from age; interior pages generally clean with no writing observed in a spot check; binding square and sound.

See all photos for detail—sold as pictured.

Condition Grade Key
Near Fine: minimal wear; tight; clean.
Very Good: light wear; clean text; minor flaws.
Good: noticeable wear; sound reading copy; some marks.
Fair: heavy wear; complete but worn; priced accordingly.

About the Author / Maker: Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922–2007) was an American novelist best known for Slaughterhouse-Five and his satirical, humanist voice. Breakfast of Champions is among his most-taught works.

Add this Vonnegut staple to anchor your modern classics section.

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