Delacorte, New York, 2009, 1^st/1^st.  ISBN 978-0-385-34371-8.  Hard cover, 281 pages.  Unread copy; black boards with copper lettering on spine, tight binding.  Dust jacket with price intact has creases at upper front panel.  Book interior clean and unmarked; black & white illustrations by the author.  ‘… a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction.  In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny portrait of life in post-World War II America – a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, an unprecedented affluence.’ (from front flap)