God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine, is a novel written by Kurt Vonnegut, published in 1965. It is the story of Eliot Rosewater, a millionaire who develops a social conscience, abandons New York City, and establishes the Rosewater Foundation in Rosewater, Indiana, “where he attempts to dispense unlimited amounts of love and limited sums of money to anyone who will come to his office.”


First Edition — First Printing

April – 1965
(Standard Hardcover*)
Holt, Rinehart, & Winston Publishing


First Edition — Second Printing

April – 1965
(Standard Hardcover*)
Holt, Rinehart, & Winston Publishing


First UK Edition

1965
(Standard Hardcover)
Jonathan Cape Publishing


Mass Market Edition

April – 1966
(Mass Market Paperback)
Dell Publishing


Special Delacorte Edition — First Printing

1970
(Standard Hardcover)
Delacorte / Seymour Publishing


First German Edition

1968
(Standard Hardcover)
C. Bertelsmann Verlag Publishing


Special Delacorte Book Club Edition

1970
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(Standard Hardcover)
Delacorte / Seymour Publishing


Mass Market Edition – First Printing

January – 1970
(Mass Market Paperback)
Dell Publishing


Mass Market Edition – Seventh Printing

April – 1971
(Mass Market Paperback)
Dell Publishing


Mass Market Edition – Thirteenth Printing

August – 1972
(Mass Market Paperback)
Dell Publishing


Mass Market Edition – Twentieth Printing

November – 1973
(Mass Market Paperback)
Dell Publishing


Mass Market Edition – Twenty-First Printing

February – 1974
(Mass Market Paperback)
Dell Publishing


Mass Market Edition – Twenty-Third Printing

November – 1974
(Mass Market Paperback)
Dell Publishing


Mass Market Edition – Twenty-Fourth Printing

December – 1974
(Mass Market Paperback)
Dell Publishing


German Mass Market Edition

December – 1974
(Mass Market Paperback)
Gesamtherstellung, Clausen, & Bosse
ISBN-13: 9783499116988
ISBN-10: 3499116987


UK Mass Market Edition — Sixth Printing

1975
(Mass Market Paperback)
Panther Books


Mass Market Edition – Twenty-Sixth Printing

October – 1975
(Mass Market Paperback)
Dell Publishing


French Trade Edition

January – 1976
(Trade Paperback)
Seuil Publishing


Romanian Mass Market Edition

1980
(Trade Paperback)
Editura Univers Publishing


Trade Edition — Sixth Printing

1982
(Trade Paperback)
Delta Publishing


Trade Edition — Seventh Printing

1982
(Trade Paperback)
Delta Publishing


Mass Market Edition – Twenty-Ninth Printing

October – 1984
(Mass Market Paperback)
Dell Publishing


UK Mass Market Edition — Fourth Printing

1986
(Mass Market Paperback)
Grafton Books


Mass Market Edition – Forty-Fourth Printing

November – 1988
(Mass Market Paperback)
Dell (Laurel) Publishing
ISBN-13: 9780440129295
ISBN-10: 044012929X


Library Edition – Forty-Fourth Printing

November – 1988
(Mass Market Hardcover)
Dell (Laurel) Publishing
Permabound Books
ISBN-13: 9780440129295
ISBN-10: 044012929X


Classics Hardcover Edition – First Printing

May – 1991
(Standard Hardcover)
Holt Rinehart & Winston
ISBN-13: 9780805017328
ISBN-10: 0805017321


Mass Market Edition – Fiftieth Printing

November – 1991
(Mass Market Paperback)
Dell (Laurel) Publishing
ISBN-13: 9780440129295
ISBN-10: 044012929X


Trade Edition – Nineteenth Printing

June – 2006
(Trade Paperback)
Dial Press Trade Paperbacks
ISBN-13: 9780385333474
ISBN-10: 0385333471


Trade Edition – Twenty-Seventh Printing

June – 2006
(Trade Paperback)
Dial Press Trade Paperbacks
ISBN-13: 9780385333474
ISBN-10: 0385333471


UK Trade Edition – Twenty-Fourth Printing

2008
(Trade [Matte] Paperback)
Vintage Books – London
ISBN-13: 9780099842804
ISBN-10: 0099842807


Compact Disc Audiobook

2008
(MP3 Compact Disc)
Audible Studios


*Facsimile Dust Jacket