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LIKELY UNPUBLISHED STORY WRITTEN IN 1940S KURT VONNEGUT. Typescript Signed and Inscribed, "P.f.c. Kurt Vonnegut Jr / R.R. 14 - Box 223 / Indianapolis 44 / Indiana," a complete short story entitled "One for 'A'." Inscribed at end of text on page 5. 5 pages, 4to, written on rectos only; paperclip stain at upper edge of first and terminal pages. Indianapolis, 1940s
"The thick and heavy beech logs of a few hours ago were reduced to glowing coals; the great gaping stone fire-place was past sputtering and hissing, content to breathe quietly its last dying heat about the medieval room and to play a dancing game with the shadows amid the lines and furrows of its master's face. . . ."
WITH--Kurt Vonnegut. Fragment of an unknown typescript, unsigned, with two small holograph corrections, mostly dialogue centering upon a character named Dora Thatcher, pages numbered 7-11 in unknown hand. 5 pages, 4to, written on rectos only. Np, 1940s.
Provenance: Bernard Vonnegut; thence by descent to his heirs; thence by sale to present owner.
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