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CONFESSIONS OF A CRAP ARTIST.
New York: Entwhistle Books, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 1000 copies printed, 500 in hardcover, 90 signed and numbered. This copy is one of the hardcover unsigned copies with "first edition" stated on the copyright page, later sheets were printed and bound without the words first edition. Originally written in 1959, not published until this edition.
COUNTER CLOCK WORLD.
London, Sydney and Toronto, White Lion Publishers Limited, [1977]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. First published as a paperback original in 1967. Expansion of the novella "Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday", (Amazing, 1966).
THE DIVINE INVASION.
New York: Timescape Books Distributed by Simon and Schuster, [1981]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Dick on the title page. The last book by Dick published during his lifetime; he died eight months after the book's publication. Second book of the VALIS trilogy. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-134.
GALACTIC POT HEALER.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, [1971]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. "...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 inCleveland-no-longer-Ohio in the year 2046..." - Michael Kenwood in Vector No. 55, Spring, 1970.
THE GAME PLAYERS OF TITAN.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1963]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace Books F251. Paperback original.
THE GAME PLAYERS OF TITAN.
London, New York, Sydney and Toronto: White Lion Publishers Limited, [1974]. Octavo, boards. First British and First hardcover edition. First published as a paperback original in the U.S. After a war between the United States and China, the survivors are mostly sterile and the eminent survivors play a game, introduced by aliens from Titan, which is a cross between monopoly and poker, in which real estate holding, possession of cities, and marriages are decided (which affects fertility).
THE GANYMEDE TAKEOVER.
[London]: Severn House, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition.
THE GANYMEDE TAKEOVER.
[London]: Severn House, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First edition.
A HANDFUL OF DARKNESS.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Signed by Dick and also signed by Richard Lupoff, who wrote the introduction, on the title page. Text offset from that of the 1955 Rich and Cowan edition. New introduction by Richard A. Lupoff.
HUMPTY DUMPTY IN OAKLAND.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1986. Octavo, boards. First edition. Posthumously published mainstream novel set in San Francisco of the 1950s. Originally written circa 1960.
IN MILTON LUMKY TERRITORY.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1985. Octavo, boards. First British edition. A posthumously published novel. A mainstream novel originally written in 1958.
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Alternate history novel in which Germany and Japan won World War II. Hugo Award winner for best novel, 1963. Made into a multi-season television series on Prime Video. Anatomy of Wonder 3-142 (1995). Pringle: SF: The Best 100 Novels #37.
MARY AND THE GIANT.
New York: Arbor House, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition.
MARY AND THE GIANT.
New York: Arbor House, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A posthumously published novel. A mainstream novel originally written in the early 1950s.
A MAZE OF DEATH.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. Octavo, cloth. First edition. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-176.
A MAZE OF DEATH.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "Various anxious characters seek God on an alien planet. An extremely odd Dick book which is an uneasy mix of interplanetary sf, religious fantasy and parodic comedy." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 231. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-176.
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.
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.