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NOW WAIT FOR LAST YEAR.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A novel of the future when Earth is under the domination of the Proxmen during an interstellar war that involves drugs and travel through time and alternate continuums. "Against a standard space war background, the author spins a daft and delightful yarn about hallucinogenic drugs, robotic quasi-life, psychological regression and political chicanery. Hastily written, but all the rich Dickian obsessions are in full flow." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 261.
THE PRESERVING MACHINE AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1971. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Collects fourteen stories; drops one story, "What the Dead Men Say," included in earlier U. S. edition.
PUTTERING ABOUT IN A SMALL LAND.
[Chicago]: Academy Chicago Publishers, [1985]. Octavo, First edition. Posthumously published mainstream novel originally written in the late 1950s, set in Southern California.
RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH.
New York: Arbor House, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Posthumously published draft of VALIS, which ultimately mutated into something quite different. The whole novel "is set in an alternate universe in which a certain Ferris F. Fremont, rather than Richard Nixon, was elected president in 1978. The two are not dissimilar, but Nixon's paranoia about domestic 'enemies' becomes Fremont's all-out campaign against a supposed conspiracy known as Aramchek." - Mackey, Philip K. Dick, p. 115. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 427-28. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #3.
ROBOTS, ANDROIDS, AND MECHANICAL ODDITIES: THE SCIENCE FICTION OF PHILIP K. DICK...
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, [1984]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Thematic collection of 15 of the author's short stories with introductory notes by the editors Particia S. Warrick and Martin H. Greenberg.
A SCANNER DARKLY.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1977. Octavo, boards. First British edition. New Path uses group attack therapy to cure addiction to hallucinogenic Substance D (nicknamed "Death"), relentlessly reprograming the subject to obey authority. And New Path is apparently growing the flower from which Substance D is made, thus helping to perpetuate itself. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award, Novel, 1978. Basis for a feature film, released in 2006. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-333. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions.
SOLAR LOTTERY ...
Boston: Gregg Press, 1976. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition, first printing. 352 copies printed. Signed by Dick on the title page. The author's first book. Text offset from that of the 1955 Ace edition. New introduction by Thomas M. Disch. "Political power in the 23rd century is conferred by random selection - but in reality this is all a front for the true powers that be. A complex and heartening tale of breakout from an oppressive system. Its the author's first novel, and the start of an important sf career. - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 333. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-334.
SOLAR LOTTERY.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1976. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition, first printing. 352 copies printed. The author's first book. Text offset from that of the 1955 Ace edition. New introduction by Thomas M. Disch. "Political power in the 23rd century is conferred by random selection - but in reality this is all a front for the true powers that be. A complex and heartening tale of breakout from an oppressive system. Its the author's first novel, and the start of an important sf career. - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 333. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-334.
THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Nominated for the Nebula award in 1965. "One of Dick's very best." - Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 3-271. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-175, (1995) 4-137. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-96. Jones and Newman: Horror: 100 Best Books #61. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #44.
TIME OUT OF JOINT.
Philadelphia, New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1959]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 28.
UBIK.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "...is closely related to his hallucinatory novels but is more tightly plotted than many Dick novels."- Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-140. "A brilliantly realized science fiction future darkened by Kafkaesque paranoia. As portrayed by Dick, a world in which cryogenic suspension has abolished traditional concepts of death and in which psychics can alter the future by changing the past is one that offers no foundation for objective truth." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-113. Barron (ed). Horror Literature 4-97. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2350-56.
UBIK.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "A brilliantly realized science fiction future darkened by Kafkaesque paranoia. As portrayed by Dick, a world in which cryogenic suspension has abolished traditional concepts of death and in which psychics can alter the future by changing the past is one that offers no foundation for objective truth." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-113. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-336. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-97. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2350-56.
UBIK.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "A brilliantly realized science fiction future darkened by Kafkaesque paranoia. As portrayed by Dick, a world in which cryogenic suspension has abolished traditional concepts of death and in which psychics can alter the future by changing the past is one that offers no foundation for objective truth." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-113. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-336. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-97. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2350-56.
UBIK: THE SCREENPLAY.
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Corroboree Press, 1985. 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. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-173. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 338.
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. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-173. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 338.
THE ZAP GUN ...
Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Signed by Dick on the title page. Text offset from that of the 1967 Pyramid Books edition. New introduction by Charles Platt.
IN PURSUIT OF VALIS: SELECTIONS FROM THE EXEGESIS.
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First edition. First publication of portions of Dick's major nonfiction work comprising more than 8000 pages written between 1974 and his death in 1982. These same "mystical experiences" became the central subject matter of his final novels: VALIS (1981), THE DIVINE INVASION (1981), and THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER (1982), termed collectively by Dick the "VALIS trilogy."
IN PURSUIT OF VALIS: SELECTIONS FROM THE EXEGESIS.
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First edition. First publication of portions of Dick's major nonfiction work comprising more than 8000 pages written between 1974 and his death in 1982. These same "mystical experiences" became the central subject matter of his final novels: VALIS (1981), THE DIVINE INVASION (1981), and THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER (1982), termed collectively by Dick the "VALIS trilogy."
IN PURSUIT OF VALIS: SELECTIONS FROM THE EXEGESIS.
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, trade paperback issue. First publication of portions of Dick's major nonfiction work comprising more than 8000 pages written between 1974 and his death in 1982. These same "mystical experiences" became the central subject matter of his final novels: VALIS (1981), THE DIVINE INVASION (1981), and THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER (1982), termed collectively by Dick the "VALIS trilogy."
IN PURSUIT OF VALIS: SELECTIONS FROM THE EXEGESIS.
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First edition. First publication of portions of Dick's major nonfiction work comprising more than 8000 pages written between 1974 and his death in 1982. These same "mystical experiences" became the central subject matter of his final novels: VALIS (1981), THE DIVINE INVASION (1981), and THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER (1982), termed collectively by Dick the "VALIS trilogy."
IN PURSUIT OF VALIS: SELECTIONS FROM THE EXEGESIS.
Novato, CA and Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the editor, Sutin, on the limitation page. First publication of portions of Dick's major nonfiction work comprising more than 8000 pages written between 1974 and his death in 1982. These same "mystical experiences" became the central subject matter of his final novels: VALIS (1981), THE DIVINE INVASION (1981), and THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER (1982), termed collectively by Dick the "VALIS trilogy."
IN PURSUIT OF VALIS: SELECTIONS FROM THE EXEGESIS.
Novato, CA and Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Copy number 1 of one of 250 numbered copies signed by the editor, Sutin, on the limitation page. First publication of portions of Dick's major nonfiction work comprising more than 8000 pages written between 1974 and his death in 1982. These same "mystical experiences" became the central subject matter of his final novels: VALIS (1981), THE DIVINE INVASION (1981), and THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER (1982), termed collectively by Dick the "VALIS trilogy."
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Infinites" by Philip K. Dick (his third appearance in Planet). Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Infinites" by Philip K. Dick (his third appearance in Planet). Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.