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Philip K. Dick

A Scanner Darkly

Doubleday & Company

1977

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First printing of Dick's late-period masterpiece of paranoia and personal disintegration.

  • Philip K. Dick (American).
  • Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1977.
  • 220 pages.
  • Bound in the original salmon-beige boards, in the original unclipped ($6.95) pictorial dust jacket, jacket illustration by the Quays, jacket typography by Judith Turner.


Dick's semi-autobiographical novel, set in a futuristic Orange County, seen through the eyes of an investigator and drug addict whose private life and psyche come apart under the influence of the reality-reversing Substance D. With jacket illustration by legendary filmmakers Stephen and Timothy Quay, who began their careers designing science fiction book covers before turning to animation.

Condition Report

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Trace sunning to jacket spine.

Touches of shelf wear.

Book has remainder spray to bottom edge.

Some toning to endpapers.

Dimensions

Height: 8 inches / 20.32 cm
Width: 5.5 inches / 13.97 cm

Feature(s)

First Edition, Dust Jacket

Language

English

Subject

Modern first editions, Novels, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Literature, American Literature

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