Santa Cruz, CA: Peter & Donna Thomas, 1997. Approximately 1 x 2 1/2 x 1". LIMITED EDITION of 130 copies, this being #6. Scroll binding, bound in a box with a wooden dowel, marbled paper over boards, title in gilt on top cover, duplex sheet with white on front and blue on reverse, handmade paper by Peter with help from Jim Croft, linoleum cut lettering by Donna, in fine condition. (Bradbury, Peter & Donna Thomas, 49; P&D Thomas Bibliography A87)

Peter and Donna Thomas, well-known book artists, authors, and paper-makers, have been operating their private press since 1976. The text is a quote from Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five". A really insightful description from the Thomas bibliography reveals the nature of this book -- "This was a breakthrough book for us because it reframed our relationship, as book artists, to text. As fine press printers, we had been taught to see the text as primary, the book is only a beautiful vehicle to house the text. With this book, the text inspired us, but the concept and structure were the real driving force. We used a great work of literature, a sentence from one anyway, but much like collage artists, we reinterpreted it and used it to our own aesthetic ends. We saw this as a mutually beneficial use: we used Vonnegut's creation, his words, and those words benefited from use using them, as we brought them to a new audience who may otherwise have never thought to read his writings".