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Philip K. Dick. A Scanner Darkly. Doubleday & Company, New York, 1977.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: Book Club Edition. 5.5 x 8.5in. 217pp. Publisher's boards. NEAR FINE in Near Fine dust jacket. The book itself shows a former owner bookplate neatly at the front endpaper, otherwise remains Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows slight shelf rubbing of the extremities, otherwise remains Fine/As New. As pictured.
Seller: North Books: Used & Rare, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Dick, Philip K. A scanner darkly. Doubleday, 1977.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1977; New York; Book club edition, H13 at gutter of page 216; brown paper covered boards w/ illustrated glossy paper jacket; brown titles; rubbing on jacket; front of jacket contains tear from the top; interior clean and unmarked; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; 220 pages
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Philip K. Dick. A Scanner Darkly. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1977.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine early reprint. Binding square and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Some light bumping to spine ends. Some minor cocking to spine. Very good dust jacket. Not price-clipped. General wear, especially to spine ends, edges, folds. A two-inch tear to bottom left of spine. Half inch area of loss to top right of spine. Some fading to spine. Overall a nice early reprint of the semi-autobiographical science-fiction novel by Philip K. Dick.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Dick, Philip K. A Scanner Darkly. Doubleday & Company, New York, 1977.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 220 pages; 1977 Doubleday & Company HC/DJ. Early printing with 1977 year on title page, no statement of edition and H13 date code in the gutter of page 216. Snugly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $6.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Light remainder spray bottom edge. Dust jacket just a trifle sunned at spine and light shelf rubbed at edges. VG+/VG
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Dick, Philip K. A Scanner Darkly. Doubleday & Company, New York, 1977.
Price: US$397.93 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Edges lightly foxed. Jacket evenly but lightly chipped at edges and fore edge folds, spine panel slightly sunned ; Original full tan leatherette. First edition with G51 to lower gutter at page 216. Overall an excellent copy; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; (iv,220) pages
Seller: Haymes & Co. Bookdealers, Kingscliff, NSW, Australia
Philip K Dick. A scanner darkly. Doubleday, 1977.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Garden City New york, 1977,
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
Dick, Philip K.. A Scanner Darkly. Doubleday: NY, 1977.
Price: US$634.92 + shipping
Description: SF novel (made into a film in 2006). First printing with code G51 on p. 216 (a second printing has code H13 on p. 216). ''First edition'' stated on copyright page and priced $6.95 ot top of inner front flap, See Levack: PKD: A Philip K. Dick Bibliography: Revised Edition (1988) 36a (p.58). A little browning along page edges, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a touch of wear along top spine edge.
Seller: COLD TONNAGE BOOKS, Colyton, DEVON, United Kingdom
Philip Dick. A Scanner Darkly. Doubleday, 1977.
Price: US$680.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Doubleday, 1977. First Edition. 220 pp. Hardcover: NEAR FINE. Dust Wrapper: NEAR FINE. First Edition, first printing with code G51 on p216.Book has some pencil markings on front and back flyleaf. Wrapper has some discoloration along spine and minor toning present. Semi-autobiographical, the story is set in a dystopian Orange County, California in the then - future of 1994. The book includes an extensive portrayal of drug culture and drug use.Upon its publication in 1977, A Scanner Darkly was hailed by ALA Booklist as "his best yet!" It was made into the 2006 film directed by Richard Linklater, starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, and Robert Downey, Jr.
Seller: Bynx, LLC, Orlando, FL, U.S.A.
Dick, Philip K.. A Scanner Darkly. Doubleday & Company, New York, 1977.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition stated, first printing. Bound in publisher's tan leatherette binding with titles stamped in black on the spine. Near Fine, textblock edge is foxed, and with remainder spray to bottom, light wear at corners and spine ends. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light spine-fading and light wear, light remainder spray to the bottom edge of the rear flap and to the bottom and blindside. Served as the basis for the 2006 film directed by Richard Linklater.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Dick, Philip K.. A SCANNER DARKLY. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1977.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. First 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, 1979. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-333. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Remainder spray to bottom edge of text block, a fine copy in fine dust jacket priced $6.95 on the front flap. (#172544)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Dick, Philip K.. A Scanner Darkly.. Doubleday, New York, 1977.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. First issue code G51 on p216. No remainder spray at bottom edge. (Very slight push to bottom corner tips. Exceedingly slim and tiny chip at base of spine. A few tiny edge nicks. ) Basis for a film adaptation & widely regarded as one of the author's finest works. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 220 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Dick, Philip K.. A SCANNER DARKLY. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1977.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. First 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, 1979. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-333. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. A fine copy in fine dust jacket priced $6.95 on the front flap. Publisher's review slip laid in. (#173056)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Dick, Philip K.. A Scanner Darkly. Doubleday & Company, New York, 1977.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition stated, first printing. Advance review copy with publisher's slip laid in, and scarce thus. Bound in publisher's tan leatherette binding with titles stamped in black on the spine. Near Fine with light foxing to textblock edge and endsheets, small abrasion to front free endpaper. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a subtle spine fade, trivial rubbing and light remainder stray to bottom edge. Served as the basis for the 2006 film directed by Richard Linklater.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Dick, Philip K. A Scanner Darkly.. Doubleday and Company, New York, 1977.
Price: US$12000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of one of the authorâs best-known works. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Philip K. Dick on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by the Quays. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable signed. Upon its publication in 1977, A Scanner Darkly was hailed by ALA Booklist as "his best yet!" Brian Aldiss lauded it as "the best book of the year." "It is Dick's most politically astute novel" (Christopher Palmer, Science Fiction Studies 18:3). "An affecting, powerful novel" (Anatomy of Wonder II-333). It was made into the 2006 film directed by Richard Linklater and starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, and Robert Downey, Jr.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.