Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Dick, Philip K.. The Preserving Machine And Other Stories. Victor Gollancz: London, 1971.
Price: US$70.45 + shipping
Description: First published as an Ace paperback original in 1969 with fifteen stories, followed the same year by a US Sciene Fiction Book Club edition: this 1971 Victor Gollancz first British edition (a Pan paperback followed in 1972) drops one of those stories (''What the Dead Men Say''), See Levack: PKD: A Philip K. Dick Bibliography: Revised Edition (1988) 34c (p.56). Small green bookstore sticker affixed to front pastedown (hidden by front inner flap), page edges a little browned, a VG+ copy in a fairly good price-clipped dustjacket with creasing along bottom edge of front panel , and (more so) to the bottom part of front inner flap, with a 6cm closed tear along bottom of front spine flap fold. First British edition (& 1st edition thus).
Seller: COLD TONNAGE BOOKS, Colyton, DEVON, United Kingdom
Dick, Philip K.. The Preserving Machine and Other Stories. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1971.
Price: US$140.90 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition and first trade hardcover edition. Originally published in the US by Ace as a paperback original in 1969 and then in hard covers in an Ace Book Club edition. Boards have very slight bumps to the top corners but are otherwise clean and unmarked. Browning to the page edges with a small dent to the top edges and a tiny tear at the top left corner of the front free endpaper but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has only very light edge and surface wear. First printing.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Dick, Philip K[indred]. THE PRESERVING MACHINE AND OTHER STORIES. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1971.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. Collects fourteen stories; drops one story, "What the Dead Men Say," included in earlier U. S. edition. A fine copy in a fine price clipped dust jacket with new Gollancz price sticker affixed to lower flap and several small small stress creases at front fold. (16456)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Dick, Philip K.. The Preserving Machine and Other Stories. Victor Gollancz, London, 1971.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo., 252pp. Beautiful First British Edition. Bound in maroon cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Some light scattered spotting to the fore-edge as is quite common. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, (£4.95P Gollancz sticker over the original £1.60 flap price), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy at a great price.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
Philip K. Dick. THE PRESERVING MACHINE AND OTHER STORIES. Gollancz, London, 1971.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine hardcover copy in a very fine jacket/brodart covered. First Edition. A very nice copy. Top corners are lightly bumped (See Pict's). Jacket is very bright and clean. No tears, no chips to jacket. Jacket is not priced clipped. No ownership signatures. (See Pict's).
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Preserving Machine and Other Stories by Philip K. Dick 1st Trade HC File Copy A tight bright copy with sharp corners, a touch of wear to upper spine edge otherwise fine. A bright dust jacket with some rubbing to the upper spine edge otherwise sharp. Not price-clipped. Publisher File Copy. First UK Edition and First Trade Hardcover Edition, after the ACE 1969, BOMC Edition. Most of these Gollancz archive copies are ink-stamped "File Copy" or "Archive Copy" on the front endpaper, title page, and/or dust jacket. There may be a numbered notation, by the publisher, in pencil or pen to the front endpaper and jacket back cover.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Dick, Philip K. THE PRESERVING MACHINE AND OTHER STORIES. London Gollancz 1971, 1971.
Price: US$287.50 + shipping
Description: First trade hardcover edition. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.
Seller: Tall Tales, Renton, WA, U.S.A.
Dick, Philip K.. The Preserving Machine & Other Stories.. GOLLANCZ., London, 1971.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First British hardcover edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (252pp. ) (5 1/4" X 8 3/4") ; 252 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.