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CLANS OF THE ALPHANE MOON.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1964]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace Book F-309. "The moon of a far planet is used as the dumping ground for Earth's insane. Complex, humorous, close-to-the-knuckle tale of intrigue in Dick's best middle-period style. An oddity, but recommended." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 69.
THE COLLECTED STORIES OF PHILIP K. DICK.
Los Angeles, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, 1987. Octavo, five volumes, cloth. First edition. The trade edition. Collects all of Dick's published short fiction, with the exception of short novels later published as or included in novels, plus six previously unpublished stories. Includes preface by Dick, foreword by Steven Owen Godersky and introductions by Roger Zelazny, Norman Spinrad, John Brunner, James Tiptree, Jr. and Thomas M. Disch, as well as notes on the stories which often incorporate commentary by Dick. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-324.
DR. BLOODMONEY OR HOW WE GOT ALONG AFTER THE BOMB.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace Book F-337. "The bomb drops, but life goes on [in] west Marin County, California. In this loopy black comedy the status quo is threatened by the guilt-ridden Dr Bluthgeld and by various mutants with paranormal powers, but Dick's usual 'little people' muddle through." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 101. 1965 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-327. Brian, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 182. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 564-68.
THE FATHER-THING ...
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1988. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Volume three of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick.
GALACTIC POT-HEALER.
New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, [1970]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition, first printing with code "08 L" on page 145. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. "...is not another story about the drug scene. It is about Joe Fernwright, an unemployed mender of ceramic pots. He gets involved with the Glimmung and ends up joining a project to raise a cathedral from the watery depths of Plowman’s Planet. But the adventure is not the most important event in the life of the pot healer. Far more important to Joe Ferenwright is his search for a meaningful life, away from the overcrowding and the war vet’s dole in Cleveland-no-longer-Ohio in the year 2046..." - Michael Kenwood in Vector No. 55, Spring, 1970. "Very funny in parts -- a daft and endearing religio-philosophical romp." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 151. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-330.
THE GAME PLAYERS OF TITAN.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1963]. Small octavo, cover by Jack Gaughan, 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 PRESERVING MACHINE AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Ace Books Inc., [1970]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. Collects fifteen stories, including "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale," filmed as "Total Recall."
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THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK 1938-1971 [with] THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK 1972-1973 [with] THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK 1974 [with] THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK 1975-1976 [with] THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK 1977-1979.
Grass Valley, California: Underwood Books, [1996; 1993; 1991; 1992; and 1993]. quarter leather and marbled boards. First editions. Two volumes are copy "X" and three volumes are "I" of twenty-six lettered copies with limitation leaves signed where required by the introducers (James P. Blaylock and William Gibson signed, the others did not) and signatures of Philip K. Dick cut from canceled checks affixed to them. The first five of the six volumes in the series. This is the complete leather bound issue. The leather bound issue of THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK 1980-1982 (2009), the sixth and last volume, was never produced.
THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK: 1938-1971. Introduction by James Blaylock.
Grass Valley, CA: Underwood Books, [1996]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by introducer James P. Blaylock. Chronologically Volume 1 in the series of six books.
THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK: 1972-1973. Introduction by Dennis Etchison.
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1993. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by introducer Dennis Etchison. Chronologically Volume 2 in the series of six books.
THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK: 1972-1973. Introduction by Dennis Etchison.
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1993. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Chronologically Volume 2 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. 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. 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 SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK: 1977-1979. Edited by Don Herron. Introduction by Robert Anton Wilson.
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1993. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by introducer Robert Anton Wilson, this being copy number 1. Chronologically Volume 5 in the series of six books.
THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK: 1977-1979. Edited by Don Herron. Introduction by Robert Anton Wilson.
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1993. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by introducer Robert Anton Wilson. Chronologically Volume 5 in the series of six books.
THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK: 1980-1982. Edited by Don Herron. Introduction by Russell Galen.
Nevada City, CA: Underwood Books, 2009. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Chronologically Volume 6 in the series of six books.
THE SIMULACRA.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1964]. Small octavo, cover by Ed Emshwiller, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace Book F-301. The USEA (the United States and Europe combined) is a repressive police state run by a covert ruling council who delude the masses by rewriting history. The council's figurehead is a simulacrum president. "The United States' long-lived First Lady proves to be a simulacrum, in this comedy of twenty-first-century life by a master of the bizarre. It's an overpopulated novel which flies off wildly in too many directions, but it nevertheless adds up to a cherishable Dickian vision of a crazy, crazy world." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 329.
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.
VALIS and COSMOGONY AND COSMOLOGY.
[Worcester Park, Surrey]: Kerosina Books, 1987. Octavo, red cloth with quarter black leather spine panel, spine and side stamped in gold, marbled endpapers. First hardcover edition. 1801 copies printed of which this is copy "R" of 26 lettered copies signed by author of the afterword Kim Stanley Robinson and with a Philip K. Dick signature clipped from a check pasted onto an inserted leaf preceding the limitation leaf. The author's first book of the Valis trilogy, a personal novel, "...the finest book of Dick's last years, VALIS (written 1978; 1981), a fragile but deeply valiant self-analysis – the two protagonists of the novel, a man who is mad and a man who is not, are clearly meant to comprise a double portrait of the author himself – conducted within the framework of a longing search for the structure of meaning, the Vast Active Living Intelligence System." - SFE online. Also included is COSMOGONY AND COSMOLOGY with an introduction by Paul Williams. This a publication of an integral section of the Dick's EXEGESIS concerning his religious epiphany. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-337.
WORLD OF CHANCE.
London, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Bombay, Johannesburg, New York, Toronto: Rich and Cowan, [1956]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. The author's first book. Issued earlier in the U.S. as a paperback original by Ace Books as SOLAR LOTTERY (1955). Texts differ considerably, "Ace wanted revisions and Rich & Cowan wanted revisions, both different, so the author satisfied them both." - Levack 38. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-67.
WORLD OF CHANCE.
London, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Bombay, Johannesburg, New York, Toronto: Rich and Cowan, [1956]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Boldly signed on the front free endpaper by Dick. The author's first book. Issued earlier in the U.S. as a paperback original by Ace Books as SOLAR LOTTERY (1955). Texts differ considerably, "Ace wanted revisions and Rich & Cowan wanted revisions, both different, so the author satisfied them both." - Levack 38. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-67.
THE MAN WHO JAPED bound with THE SPACE BORN.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1957]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition and first paperback edition (North). Ace Double Novel Books D-249. "A man revisits the small town of his birth, and finds that the place has been taken over by alien entities. Very early and minor Dick, but readable." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 79.
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.