PLAYER PIANO. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. 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).
Price: $1,000.00
First printing has "A" and Scribner seal on copyright page.