Player Piano
by Vonnegut, Kurt
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. BC Ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Early Book Club Edition. 293 pages. Light wear to mylar protected dust jacket with slight sun-fade to spine. Tiny chip missing from lower edge of spine. Clean, tight copy. Record # 856721
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
- Browsing Is Arousing (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 856721
- Title
- Player Piano
- Author
- Vonnegut, Kurt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- BC Ed
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- Fiction Novels, Novels, , .
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- Fiction Novels;
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....