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Dick, Philip K.. THE GAME PLAYERS OF TITAN. White Lion, 1974.
Price: US$622.45 + shipping
Description: THE GAME PLAYERS OF TITAN, White Lion, 1974, first hardcover edition, just about fine in vg dust-wrapper with 2 short closed tears and some rubbing and dust-soiling to the rear dust-wrapper panel. A now most difficult edition to locate.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
DICK, Philip K.. THE GAME-PLAYERS OF TITAN. London: White Lion Publishers., 1974.
Price: US$644.13 + shipping
Description: First UK and first hardcover edition. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm with minor rubbing and bumping to the spine tips, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without foxing, inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very good rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has a few tiny chips to the fold corners and tips of the lightly faded spine. Not price-clipped (£1.80 to the lower front flap). Originally published in the US as a paperback original, this British first edition is the first hardcover Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Dick, Philip K.. THE GAME-PLAYERS OF TITAN. White Lion Publishers, London, 1974.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First Impression. Octavo (20.25cm); navy blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [4],5-188pp. Faint foxing to text edges, a little less so to endpapers, with spine ends very gently nudged; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced £1.80), with trivial wear to extremities, and some dust-soil to rear panel; Near Fine. First hardcover edition of this early novel (originally issued as an Ace paperback original in 1963), set in a depopulated, post-apocalyptic future world. "The human remnants of the intersystem wars play a territory-oriented game designed to maximize births in an almost sterile population. Pete Garden, with the assistance of some Psis, determines that the Titanian vugs are horning in on the game, and that an even more radical faction of the vugs wants to sterilize Terra entirely" (Levack 18h).
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Dick, Philip K.. The Game-players of Titan. -White Lion Publishers -, 1974.
Price: US$772.96 + shipping
Description: First UK hardcover edition 1974. Dark blue cloth gilt lettering. Fine in dustjacket with very minor edge-wear. Ask to see our other Philip K. Dick titles.
Seller: Paul Brown, Ramsgate, United Kingdom
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. 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). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to corner tips and mild dust soiling to white background of rear panel. (16498) First British and First hardcover edition.
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.