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BEYOND LIES THE WUB ...
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1988. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Volume one of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Later state of the first printing with WUB on the spine printed correctly.
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. Octavo, cloth. First edition. In a depleted world, where android animals are marketed to help expiate the guilt people experience because the real ones have been largely exterminated, the protagonist must hunt down androids illegally imported from Mars. A 1968 Nebula nominee. "A key novel in Dick's canon." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-326. Basis for the feature film "Blade Runner," directed by Ridley Scott. Pringle, Science Fiction the Best 100 Novels 55. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions.
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 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 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. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 291-2; 298-9.
SECOND VARIETY ...
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1989. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Volume two of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick.
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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 1974 ...
Novato, California, Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, 1991. Octavo, pp. [1-32] 1-311 [312: blank] [313-314: index] [315-320: blank] [note: last three leaves are blanks], cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by introducer William Gibson. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) 10-53.
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. 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, 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. 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 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.
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.
VALIS.
[Worcester Park, Surrey]: Kerosina Books, 1987. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. 1801 copies printed of which this is one of 1500 trade copies. New afterword by Kim Stanley Robinson. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-337.
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 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. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 260.
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.
SOLAR LOTTERY bound with THE BIG JUMP.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1955]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace Double Novel Books D-103. The author's first book. Issued later in Britain with textual changes made by Dick at the request of his publisher as WORLD OF CHANCE (1956). "Dick's first major work." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-334. Bound with THE BIG JUMP by Leigh Brackett.