A near fine copy of Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., the March 1963 first edition and printing from Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York. Vonnegut's fourth novel nominated for a 1964 Hugo Award for best novel. (Ref. Currey, p. 503; Pieratt, Huffman-Klinkowitz, and Klinkowitz AE) 8vo.231 pages ~ Publisher's green cloth and blue covered boards, spine and blue board stamped in blue and gilt; Boards lightly sunned; mild edgewear, softening to spine tips. The interior is clean and unmarked. The original Ben Feder, Inc. Designed dust jacket is priced clipped; discrete repairs to head and tail of spine panel; vertical tear in front panel repaired on verso; somewhat scuffed; worn along folds with minor losses; a few chips and short tears along edges. Overall, a nice copy of the book author Theodore Sturgeon called "appalling, hilarious, shocking, and infuriating...and you must read it."