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Player Piano
by Vonnegut, Kurt Jr
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Kingscliff, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1953. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Edges and spine lightly sunned. Edges and endpapers lightly foxed, offestting to endpapers. Jacket sunned on spine panel with some mild spots, price clipped, a few chips to edges, rear dusty, publisher's stamp to rear blurb, light foxing ; The author's first book; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; (viii,352) pages .
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
- Haymes & Co.
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B4263
- Title
- Player Piano
- Author
- Vonnegut, Kurt Jr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st UK Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co. Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- Modern First, Science Fiction, American Literature
Terms of Sale
Haymes & Co.
Al l books are sold as complete or as otherwise described. Any item found to be not as described may be returned within 7 days of purchase.
About the Seller
Haymes & Co.
Biblio member since 2022
Kingscliff, New South Wales
About Haymes & Co.
Haymes & Co. are 6th generation antiquarian booksellers. Our foundations trace back to Rotterdam, Holland, in the early 19th century.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
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