A Scanner Darkly.
$12,000 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · Signed
New York: Doubleday and Company, 1977. First edition of one of the author’s 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.
- Publisher: Doubleday and Company
- Year: 1977
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: hardcover
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