Player Piano
by Vonnegut, Kurt
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Beverly Hills, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Scribners, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good first edition (with the Scribner's A on the copyright page) in a very good dust jacket with slight offsetting from tape on flaps. SIGNED by Vonnegut on a card laid in. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.
Synopsis
Player Piano, author Kurt Vonnegut's first novel, was published in 1952. It is a dystopia of automation and capitalism, describing the dereliction they cause in the quality of life. The story takes place in a near-future society that is almost totally mechanized, eliminating the need for human laborers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookbid Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0104361
- Title
- Player Piano
- Author
- Vonnegut, Kurt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Scribners
- Date Published
- 1952
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bookbid Rare Books
Biblio member since 2009
Beverly Hills, California
About Bookbid Rare Books
Bookbid Rare Books is a rare book dealer located in Beverly Hills, California. The family run company has sold modern literary first editions and children's books for over 20 years. Member of ABAA, ILAB.
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- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...