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BLACK MASK.
Chicago, IL: Fictioneers, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rafael De Soto, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes stories by Robert Reeves, John K. Butler, Dale Clark, Eaton Goldthwaite, and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 62-68.
BLACK MASK.
Chicago, IL: Fictioneers, Inc., 1944. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rafael De Soto, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes stories Robert Reeves (Cellini Smith), Brett Halliday (Mike Shayne), Julius Long, and others. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 62-68].
COUCHING AT THE DOOR.
London..Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd., [1942]. Octavo, original light blue cloth, spine stamp in gold. First edition. "Effective and unusual tales." - Barron: Horror Literature 3-37. [Reference: Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Literature #297].
COUCHING AT THE DOOR: STRANGE AND MACABRE STORIES. Introduction by Jack Adrian.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. Octavo, cloth. First printing of the enlarged edition. Limited to 600 copies. The Ash-Tree edition collects the contents of COUCHING AT THE DOOR (1942), the weird tales from A FIRE OF DRIFTWOOD (1932) and "The Taste of Pomegranates," a previously uncollected tale, with an introduction by editor Jack Adrian.
THE POCKET BOOK OF FATHER BROWN.
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1943]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pocket Book #236. Collection of Father Brown stories from earlier books.
A FIX LIKE THIS.
New York: Saturday Review Press/Dutton, 1975. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
THE MAN WHO LIKED TO LOOK AT HIMSELF.
New York: Saturday Review Press/E.P. Dutton, 1973. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The second Mario Balzic mystery. "...written in a readable, literate style, tightly plotted and with believable, very human characters in familiar settings." - Pronzini and Muller: 1001 Midnights, pp. 160-61.
THE COMPLETE STORIES OF PHILIP K. DICK: Volumes 1-5. THE KING OF ELVES, ADJUSTMENT TEAM, UPON THE DULL EARTH, THE MINORITY REPORT and WE CAN REMEMBER IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE.
[Burton, Michigan]: Subterranean Press, 2010-2014. Octavo, 5 volumes, jacket art all volumes by Bill Sienkiewicz, imitation leather. New editions, expanded. One of 250 numbered copies. These are all copy number 29. These new editions which were first published by Underwood-Miller have newly assembled notes and the first volume includes two previously uncollected stories.
THE GAME PLAYERS OF TITAN.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1963]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace Book F-251. Paperback original. The human remnants of the intersystem wars play a territory-oriented game designed to maximize births in an almost sterile population. The alien Vugs of Titan are horning in on the game and their radical faction wants to sterilize Earth entirely. "An odd, cranky, philosophical melodrama, full of good touches." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 151.
THE GOLDEN MAN. Edited by Mark Hurst.
[New York]: A Berkley Book published by Berkley Publishing Corporation, [1980]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Fifteen stories, first published between 1954 and 1974, most published here for the first time in a book, with a foreword by editor Mark Hurst and an introduction by Dick.
THE GOLDEN MAN. Edited by Mark Hurst.
[New York]: Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation, [1980]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. First printing with code "K27" on page 325. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. Collects fifteen stories from 1953 - 1974, all previously uncollected. Includes an autobiographical introduction by Dick.
THE MAN WHOSE TEETH WERE ALL EXACTLY ALIKE.
Willimantic, Connecticut: Mark V. Ziesing, 1984. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Posthumously published mainstream novel originally written circa 1960, set in Northern California.
NICK AND THE GLIMMUNG ...
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1988. Octavo, boards. First edition. A children's science-fiction novella about a boy, his family, and his cat Horace (named after the author's cat), who move to a strange new planet whose life forms are menaced by the monstrous Glimmung. Written in 1966, though not published until 1988, six years after his death. Plowman's Planet is also the setting for Dick's GALACTIC POT-HEALER (1969).
A PHILIP K. DICK OMNIBUS: THE CRACK IN SPACE, THE UNTELEPORTED MAN, DR. FUTURITY.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, [1970]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects THE CRACK IN SPACE (1966), an overpopulation dystopia, THE UNTELEPORTED MAN (1966), an authoritarian dystopia, and DR. FUTURITY (1960), time travel, all first published here in hardcover. [Reference: Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 291-2; 298-9].
THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK: 1975-1976. Edited by Don Herron. Introduction by Tim Powers.
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1992. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Chronologically Volume 4 in the series of six books.
THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK: 1975-1976. Edited by Don Herron. Introduction by Tim Powers.
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1992. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by introducer Tim Powers, this being copy number 1. Chronologically Volume 4 in the series of six books.
THE SHIFTING REALITIES OF PHILIP K. DICK: SELECTED LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS. Edited and with an Introduction by Lawrence Sutin.
New York: Pantheon Books, [1995]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii-xxix [xxx] [1-2] 3-350 [351: brief note on the editor] [352: blank], cloth-backed boards. First edition.
UBIK: THE SCREENPLAY.
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Corroboree Press, 1985. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 1250 copies printed of which this is one of 1200 trade copies. Dick's filmscript incorporates an ending that differs from that of his novel.
WE CAN BUILD YOU.
[London]: Severn House, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. A land speculator plans a lunar eutopia with tract houses populated by simulacra to entice people to emigrate to the Moon. However, the main theme of the story is human empathy, the lack of which makes a human no different than a machine. MASA's Lincoln simulacrum proves to be more in touch with reality than the humans in Dick's future society, in which many are diagnosed as schizophrenic by the dictatorial Federal Bureau of Mental Health. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-173. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 338].
THE WORLD JONES MADE.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1967]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First separate edition. Ace Books F429. Published earlier as Ace Double Novel Books D150 bound with AGENT OF THE UNKNOWN by Margaret St. Clair. Future authoritarian dystopia. "The eponymous Jones is an unhappy dictator who can foresee the future, by exactly one year. Its author's second novel from the period before he had come into his full powers." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction (1995), p. 427. "A spectacular, brim-full grab bag of ideas." - Damon Knight. [Reference: Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 260].
THE WORLD JONES MADE bound with AGENT OF THE UNKNOWN.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1956]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace Double Novel Books D-150. Future authoritarian dystopia. "The eponymous Jones is an unhappy dictator who can foresee the future, by exactly one year. Its author's second novel from the period before he had come into his full powers." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction (1995), p. 427. "A spectacular, brim-full grab bag of ideas." - Damon Knight. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 260.
DEUS IRAE.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page by Dick. A quest novel set in America after World War III. A stalled Dick novel completed by Zelazny.
THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK: 1974.
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Foreword by William Gibson. Chronologically volume 3 in the series of six books.
PHILIP K. DICK: THE DREAM CONNECTION.
San Jose, CA: The Permanent Press, [1987]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Includes material by and about Dick. A personal memoir by the Apel, "Philip K. Dick in Interview with E. Scott Apel and Kevin C. Briggs," Dick's short story "The Eye of the Sibyl," text of three Dick letters, and other material.
PKD: A PHILIP K. DICK BIBLIOGRAPHY.
San Francisco, CA / Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1981. Octavo, pictorial cloth. First edition, trade hardcover. An annotated and illustrated bibliography. [Reference: Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002) 369].