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Vonnegut Jr., Kurt. Player Piano: America In The Coming Age of Electronics. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1952.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 295 pgs., 8vo. Blue book club cloth, interesting gray dust wrapper that has a brown-ish old water-stain on 1/3 of jkt. spine. A scarce book in any early printing. Very good condition in very good dust jacket. "A" Scribner marking but stated as a Book Club. Greenish boards, no other defects, no clips.

Seller: Old Book Surfer, Cambridge, NY, U.S.A.

Kurt Vonnegut. Player Piano. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: ISBN . Hardback. Bookclub Edition in the same size and format as the Scribners 1952 first edition. Book is in Good to Very Good condition with a slight bump to top right corner of front cover with a slightly larger bump and crease to top right corner of back cover, and some slight browning to edges of interior pages. A nice tight sound unmarked book with dustjacket completely hiding the cover bumps. Book club clipped off bottom right corner of front interior flap, light brown toning to the spine and folded edges of front cover with slight pea sized chip to bottom of spine otherwise dust jacket is in good to very good condition with sliight edgewear. We have placed dustjacket in a brodart protective cover and it looks much better than described. Still a very nice tight sound unmarked copy of this classic early Vonnegut novel.

Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.

Vonnegut Kurt Jr.. Player Piano. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1952.

Price: US$177.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: With Scribner's seal and letter A. Back board is blemished, ink stains and dent. Fading to spine. General wear and tear to solid copy.

Seller: Take Five Books, Ashland, OR, U.S.A.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Player Piano. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1952.

Price: US$195.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1952 Scribner's First Edition with the "A" but no seal on the copyright page. With pale green boards & in VG condition. Looks like an ex library book but no stamps present. A crisp tight copy wrapped in the later issue First thus Delacorte Press DJ in VG condition as well.

Seller: Bren-Books, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

kurt vonnegut jr.. player piano. charles scribner's sons, new york, 1952.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 1952 book club edition stated on dj. green boards with purple lettering on spine. book near fine with corner bumping. dj has chipping on top of spine.

Seller: broken wing books, blaine, MN, U.S.A.

Vonnegut, Kurt. PLAYER PIANO. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1952.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. First printing with "A" and Scribner seal on copyright page. 7600 copies printed. The author's first book. "The United States has won the third world war. Production being totally automatic, almost the whole population is on a generous dole. Only the intelligent minority works." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 159. "Kurt Vonnegut's PLAYER PIANO depicts an automated twentieth-first century America controlled by a hierarchy of technical and managerial Babbitts, arrogant, stale, and humorless, leading affluent, segregated near-pointless lives. Automation having made craftsmanship obsolete, the masses, stripped of their dignity, live on a government dole or are impressed into the military or work gangs. But for the elite in their comfortable suburbs, automated America is a jungle of toadyism, back-biting, childish sloganeering, executive meetings, and fear of being automated into the dump of the superfluous." - Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 17-19. "Incisive satire; a classic modern dystopia." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-392. ". the best of the science-fiction anti-utopias -- and indeed the best of all the recent anti-utopias is Vonnegut's brilliantly satiric PLAYER PIANO." - Hillegas, The Future as Nightmare, pp. 159-[162]. Runner-up for the 1953 International Fantasy Award. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1202. Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 17-9. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 244. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1697-1701. Pieratt, Huffman-klinkowitz, and Klinkowitz AA1. Vertical strip of fading on rear panel near spine, which is also a bit faded, else a clean, nearly fine copy. (#161901)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

Kurt Vonnegut. Player Piano. Charles Scribners Sons, New York, 1952.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition of the Author's first book, lacking the DJ. Scribners "A" and seal on copyright page. Book has tape markings on top and bottom of boards from previous DJ. Some spotting and minor fading to spine. Photos on request.

Seller: IEBOOKMAN, PRESCOTT, AZ, U.S.A.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.. Player Piano. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1952.

Price: US$310.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Silver letters on green cover; "A" and publisher's logo are on the copyright page. The bottom half of the spine and the board's top and bottom edges are a little faded. The top end of the text block has shelf wear soiling. One corner of the back pastedown is foxed. Laid -in is a newspaper review column of this title. DJ: original $3.00 price on jacket, only the top 3 3/4 in. of the spine panel remains; the spine panel, folds, and top ends of all panels have darkened/faded; on the reverse side, tape rejoins the spine and back panels, the bottom end of the front flap's fold, the top end of the spine panel's front fold; the ends of folds have chips, up to 1/2 in.; front and back panels have soiling from handling and shelf wear. Photos e-mailed upon request. International shipping will require extra cost.

Seller: Books from the Past, Memphis, TN, U.S.A.

Kurt Vonnegut. PLAYER PIANO. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

Price: US$320.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: ****Spring Sale! The current price reflects a 20% discount off the regular price, while the item lasts. Sale ends April 2, 2024*****; Green cloth cover is sunned on spine and along edges but clean and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Former owner's bookplate by Lynd Ward on front paste down. Small erasure and ink checkmark in corner of front end sheet. Scribner's "A" and colophon on copyright page. Pages are lightly toned but clean and near pristine. Incomplete DJ (lacking front and spine panel) laid-in. Publisher's price of $3.00 on DJ flap.

Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt. PLAYER PIANO. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1952.

Price: US$345.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Hardcover; 8vo; 295 pages. First edition ("A" and Scribner seal on copyright page) of author's first book. No jacket. In green paperbound hardcovers with silver titles. Sunned spine, rubbed edges/head/tail. Bumped corners. Small stains to tail-edges of boards. Dark red coffee cup stains to lower board. Prev. owner's stamp on fep. Yellowing but bright and clean interior. G-/--

Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.. Player Piano.. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, Book Club issue. A Fine copy in pale pastel green plastic coated paper covered boards, stamped in dark blue, in a Nearly Fine pale green dustwrapper, with lower edge of front flap clipped, slight toning of spine panel, and one short closed tear rear top spine-fold. Lacking publisher's seal on copyright page. 295pp. Vonnegut's first book, scarce in any condition. Q04126

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

VONNEGUT, JR. Kurt. Player Piano [With Signed Bookplate Laid In]. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1952.

Price: US$495.00 + shipping

Description: 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.

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.

Kurt Vonnegut. Player Piano. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

Price: US$530.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1952. First Edition / First Printing. Scribner's seal and "A" are present. Green cloth boards. Book Condition: Near Fine, tight spine, light age toning at the endpaper. Dust Jacket Condition: Good, chipping, tears, price at the front flap in pen. Wrapped in a new removable mylar cover.

Seller: 1st Editions and Antiquarian Books, Opelika, AL, U.S.A.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.. Player Piano. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, first printing of Vonnegut's debut novel, a classic of modern dystopian fiction depicting a near-future society that is almost totally mechanized, eliminating the need for human laborers, partially inspired by Vonnegut's time working at General Electric. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First printing with the "A" and Scribner seal on copyright page. Publisher's original green cloth boards, spine lettered in silver; pp. (viii), 295. A near fine or better copy in a good to very good, unclipped first state ($3.00) dust jacket. Binding remains tight, sturdy and square, near non-existent shelfwear to boards, a trace of offsetting to rear endpapers else internally clean and fine. Jacket shows light general shelfwear with splitting along the spine joints, reinforced on the verso with archival tape, toning to edges of panels and spine with a spot of discoloration near front joint. Protected in archival mylar.

Seller: Kevin Sell, The Rare Book Sleuth, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Player Piano. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

Price: US$695.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Scribner's "A" on copyright page and $3.00 price on jacket. Top corners bumped and bottom corners very lightly bumped. Small bump to middle of back board. The Jacket has a one-inch by quarter-inch long chip to top of rear panel of jacket near spine. Scuff to top of front panel of jacket causing the word "Electronics" to be removed. Browning to jacket spine.

Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Player Piano. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1952.

Price: US$700.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. (First printing with publisher's colophon and "A" on copyright page.) [viii], 295 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with slightly soiled cloth, some stains throughout text, foxed endpapers, in a Good+ dust jacket, toned (especially spine panel) and slightly soiled, chip at head repaired with tape on verso, tiny nick to gutter of front panel, unclipped ($3.00) The author's first novel.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Kurt Vonnegut. Player Piano. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1952. First Edition / First Printing. Rare Book. Scribner's seal and "A" are present. Green cloth boards. Book Condition: Near Fine, sunning at the spine, bookplate. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-, chipping at the spine. Wrapped in a new removable mylar cover.

Seller: 1st Editions and Antiquarian Books, Opelika, AL, U.S.A.

Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt. PLAYER PIANO. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1952.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, boards. First printing with the Scribner's seal and "A" on the copyright page. The author's first book. Runner-up for the 1953 International Fantasy Award. "Incisive satire; a classic modern dystopia." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-392. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-191. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1697-1701. Pieratt, Huffman-klinkowitz, and Klinkowitz AA1. A fine copy in a about very good price clipped dust jacket, color fade to edges and spine panel, some small stain spots to upper right front corner, light shelf wear to corners and spine ends which have been reinforced on the verso with clear tape. (14629)

Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.

Vonnegut, Kurt. PLAYER PIANO. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1952.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. First printing with "A" and Scribner seal on copyright page. 7600 copies printed. The author's first book. Runner-up for the 1953 International Fantasy Award. "The United States has won the third world war. Production being totally automatic, almost the whole population is on a generous dole. Only the intelligent minority works." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 159. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1202. Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 17-9. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 244. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1697-1701. Pieratt, Huffman-klinkowitz, and Klinkowitz AA1. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with 11 mm closed tear at top center of front panel with associated horizontal crease to the left and small abrasion below, some general dust soiling, more so to rear panel than front and spine panels, and a touch of tanning to spine panel and flap folds, internal reinforcement with brown paper tape at spine ends and corners, and clipped price. Outwardly, a fairly nice copy. (#102846)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.. Player Piano. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1952.

Price: US$1080.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition in green cloth with spine titled in silver and jacket art by George W. Thompson. First printing with "A" and Scribner seal on copyright page. 7600 copies printed. The author's first book. Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1952. 295 Pages. A fine copy with a very good clipped protected jacket with a 1/4" tear at top of cover and a sun faded spine.

Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt. Player Piano. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1952.

Price: US$1141.31 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. 8vo. 295 pp. Green boards with silver lettering to the spine. Bottom corners and the spine ends very lightly bumped, spine end tips a touch sunned, clean throughout and the binding tight. Dust jacket not price clipped, corners and spine end corners with very light chips, surface rubbing to one spot and a small faint stain to the front panel of the jacket above the lettering, rubbing to the spine ends, spine scuffed and faded. A very good copy of the author's first book.

Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada

Vonnegut, Kurt. Player Piano : America in the Coming Age of Electronics. Charle's Scribner's Sons, 1952.

Price: US$1295.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very Good with Very Good dustjacket 1952, first edition, first printing with "A" on copyright page and original $3.00 price on DJ, green cloth with spine titled in silver and jacket art by George W. Thompson. First 7600 copies printed, author's first book, dustjacket has chip on front cover previous owner's name on endpaper, 295 pages

Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.

Vonnegut, Kurt. PLAYER PIANO (1st edition). Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1952.

Price: US$1400.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. New York. 295 pages. True 1st edition, 1st printing. Copyright page has the Scribner's "A" and the requisite Scribner seal / colophon. Includes typographical errors (pages 91, 107, 115, 213 ) fwiw, some later printings also include these errors. $3.00 price intact on DJ flap. Book is tight. Binding and hinges are strong. Pages are bright and lay neatly. Silver letters on backstrip are bright. A touch of sunning at crown/top edge. Endpapers are clean and bright. Book is in seeminly unread condition. Tiniest pushing to one corner. Attractive DJ with $3.00 price intact on flap with old bookseller markdown pricing underneath manufacturer price on flap. DJ shows shallow chipping and light soiling. Tiny stain on bottom page edges. All flaws noted. A fresh and crisp copy of the classic in the first printing. 1 of only 7,600 copies in original print run on August 31, 1952.

Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.

Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt. Player Piano. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1952.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A Very Good+ copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Book with some tape-ghosts to the boards and end papers. Dust jacket a bit faded at the spine and extremities and with a short, closed tear at the top of the front panel (no loss). Vonnegut's first novel, Player Piano, is a satire set in dystopian machine-dominated America, which cautions against blindly embracing technology. Inspired by his time at General Electric, Vonnegut imagines a future where automatization has replaced most industries, relegating society to meaningless toil. The story follows engineer Dr. Paul Proteus, one of the privileged few, as he becomes disillusioned. Vonnegut's prophetic sci-fi tale offers "an uncommon and honest theme for our daysâ€"that a society that outsources all labor to technology may inadvertently drain out too much humanity" (Bosphorus Review of Books). Very Good + in Near Fine dust jacket.

Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.. Player Piano: America in the Coming Age of Electronics. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1952.

Price: US$1521.74 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A true first edition of Vonnegut's first novel, with A to copyright page. Green paper boards. 295 pp. Jacket design by George W. Thompson. Dust jacket is age toned and lightly soiled, with some acidification from sticker adhesive to foot of rear cover. Else fine. Ten years after the Second Industrial Revolution the Electronic Age was in full swing. Millions of vacuum tubes hummed, millions of machines clicked as they spewed forth the requisite number of prefabricated houses and ultrasonic dishwashers, the answer to governmental and industrial questions, and impeccably correct selections of books, football teams, and civil servants. Very few people actually worked; the machines picked out potential engineer material and sent it to college, and with this background a young man might hope to go to Pittsburgh eventually -- the equivalent of going to the White House back in the old pre-electronic days. According to the machines' calculations, the people should all have been very happy to have every material comfort with a minimum of physical labor. Human nature being what it is, the people were not happy. Nor was Dr. Paul Proteus, one of the most brilliant engineers in the country and, at 35, manager of the vast Ilium Works. Dr. Proteus had even entertained the heretical idea (one which his Pittsburgh-minded wife disapproved of thoroughly) that the machines had taken away far more than they had given. But it was not until Paul's old friend Ed Finnerty turned up, flaunting his rebellion against the vacuum tubes openly, that Paul's ideas began to crystallize. And almost imperceptibly the revolt against the machines got under way. What happened then makes an unusual and extremely fascinating story -- and a rather frightening preview of the Age of Electronics which is all but upon us now. Many of the seemingly fantastic devices described in Player Piano are already in existence, though not yet in public use. Reminiscent of Huxley's Brave New World or Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Player Piano is swift-moving, very intriguing, and completely entertaining.

Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.. PLAYER PIANO. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1952.

Price: US$1898.55 + shipping

Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Owner name on FEP. Scribner seal and A present on copyright page. Toned spine. Author's FIRST book.

Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.

VONNEGUT, Kurt.. Player Piano.. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952, 1952.

Price: US$2275.29 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing, of the author's first book. Player Piano, which depicts a dystopia in which society is almost entirely mechanized, was partially inspired by Vonnegut's time working for General Electric and was nominated for the International Fantasy Award in 1953. In this book, Vonnegut criticizes a society that completely replaces human endeavour with machinery, creating a sense of purposelessness and indifference. "To have a little clicking box make all the decisions wasn't a vicious thing to do", he said of General Electric's gradual replacement of skilled workers with machines, "but it was too bad for the human beings who got their dignity from their jobs" (quoted in Hicks p. 26). Currey, p. 503; Pieratt AA1. Heather J. Hicks, The Culture of Soft Work, 2009. Octavo. Original green boards, spine lettered in silver. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom dark red cloth flat-backed box. Spine sunned, foot toned, tiny bumps to corners and head of front cover, endpapers lightly foxed; jacket sunned, spine ends and corners a little chipped and nicked, mark on rear flap, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

Vonnegut, Kurt. Player Piano. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1952.

Price: US$3000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, First Printing with the publisher's "A" and logo printed on the copyright page. A wonderful copy. This original is rich in color with minor wear to the spine. The book is nice shape. The binding is tight with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Player Piano. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1952.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Advance review copy of the first edition, signed and dated by Kurt Vonnegut on the title page. Self-bound in dust jacket, with two white strips mounted on verso of front cover and first blank page with printed material which would appear on the first edition dust jacket flaps. Very Good. Wraps toned, lightly soiled, stray pencil mark to front cover, 1.5-inch long hairline crack to front joint near foot. Ink blot to white printed strip on first blank page; 1 x 2.5" torn from top corners of first blank and half title page; verso of half title page shows a tear near the gutter at foot. One of an estimated 25-30 copies in such format, and ever more uncommon signed.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

VONNEGUT, Kurt Jr.. Player Piano (Advance Review Copy). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Octavo. An advance review copy, in wrappers, duplicating George W. Thompson's classic jacket design. With the text from the jacket flaps pasted as two panels to verso of front cover and front endpaper. One of an estimated 30 such copies (Klinkowitz AA1). A pleasing copy, with minor toning to wrappers, else near fine. Housed in quarter-leather slipcase, with pull-tab chemise.

Seller: Harper's Books, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Vonnegut, Kurt. PLAYER PIANO. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1952.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. First printing with "A" and Scribner seal on copyright page. 7600 copies printed. The author's first book. "The United States has won the third world war. Production being totally automatic, almost the whole population is on a generous dole. Only the intelligent minority works." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 159. "Incisive satire; a classic modern dystopia." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-392. Runner-up for the 1953 International Fantasy Award. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1202. Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 17-9. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 244. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1697-1701. Pieratt, Huffman-klinkowitz, and Klinkowitz AA1. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with some mild tanning to the spine panel and edges, much less than usually encountered. A very nice copy. (#151238)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.. Player Piano. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

Price: US$4000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Advance copy of the first edition. A pre-binding copy for review. "An estimated twenty-five to thirty copies were bound using the dust jacket as a wrapper and sent to reviewers prior to publication. The printed material which appeared on the flaps of the dust wrapper in the first edition was printed on two white strips of paper. These strips were laid-in [i.e. laid-down] inside the top cover." - Pieratt, Huffman-klinkowitz, and Klinkowitz AA1 Soft cover is in good shape but cover seems to be made of "self destructing paper"

Seller: Windfall Books, Stuyvesant, NY, U.S.A.

Vonnegut, Kurt. PLAYER PIANO. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1952.

Price: US$5000.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Advance copy of the first edition. A pre-binding copy for review. "An estimated twenty-five to thirty copies were bound using the dust jacket as a wrapper and sent to reviewers prior to publication. The printed material which appeared on the flaps of the dust wrapper in the first edition was printed on two white strips of paper. These strips were laid-in [i.e. laid-down] inside the top cover." - Pieratt, Huffman-klinkowitz, and Klinkowitz AA1. The author's first book. "The United States has won the third world war. Production being totally automatic, almost the whole population is on a generous dole. Only the intelligent minority works." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 159. "Incisive satire; a classic modern dystopia." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-392. Runner-up for the 1953 International Fantasy Award. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1202. Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 17-9. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 244. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1697-1701. A fine copy with no fading and virtually no tanning to the wrappers. The best of the handful of extant copies of this advance issue. (#132211)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Player Piano. Charles Scribners Sons, New York, 1952.

Price: US$6000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Kurt Vonnegut on a laid in signature. This ORIGINAL First Issue dustjacket is vibrant in color with NO chips or tears. The book is bound in the ORIGNAL publisher's green cloth with sliver lettering. The binding is tight and the book appears UNREAD. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy SIGNED by the author.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Player Piano. Charles Scribners Sons, New York, 1952.

Price: US$7500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Kurt Vonnegut. A beautiful copy. This original First Issue dustjacket has the $3.00 publisher's printed price present on the front flap with slight wear to the edges. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's green cloth and is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION with the Publisher's "A" and seal printed on the copyright page in collector's condition. We buy SIGNED Vonnegut First Editions.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.