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Player Piano [With Signed Bookplate Laid In]

Player Piano [With Signed Bookplate Laid In]

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Player Piano [With Signed Bookplate Laid In]

by VONNEGUT, JR. Kurt

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About This Item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. Book Club Edition. Octavo (20.75cm); teal cloth, with titles stamped in dark purple on spine; dark yellow topstain; dustjacket; [8], 295, [1]pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Pinpoint wear to spine ends and corner tips, lower corners gently tapped (though still sharp), with contemporary date (6/6/53) in ink to upper front pastedown and previous owners name roughly erased from front endpaper; Very Good+. Dustjacket is clipped at all four corners, sunned at spine and extremities, with overall wear, a few nicks, short tears and attendant creases to edges; Very Good. Vonnegut's first book, a machine dystopia with a huge unemployed population where the engineers are in control. SARGENT p.121, NEGLEY 1150.

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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Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books US (US)
Seller's Inventory #
24026
Title
Player Piano [With Signed Bookplate Laid In]
Author
VONNEGUT, JR. Kurt
Book Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Edition
Book Club Edition
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1952
Bookseller catalogs
Modern Fiction; Fantasy - Lost Race - Science Fiction; Dystopias;

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About Lorne Bair Rare Books

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Good+
A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Sunned
Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Bookplate
Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Book Club Edition
A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
Octavo
Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...

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