Ubik.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1969. First Book Club Edition, first printing. Full grey cloth, top edge stained yellow, in Peter Rauch dust jacket. 202 pp. 8.5" x 5.75" Lightly pressed corners and tips, else fine in near fine, lightly soiled dust jacket with spine toned a shade and small sticker shadow lower spine, in mylar cover. Item #244415
UBIK ISN'T FICTION
This odd story, the one that people mispronounce (it's YOO-bik) and sent the Russian embassy to Dick's house for his theories on the afterlife (he played dumb and they left), made more of an impact on Philip K. Dick's psyche than most. Self-described as "a very strange one," Dick's novel explored sliding theories of reality in a world where psychic powers are common, death can be postponed, and time fails to hold firm after an explosion on the Moon. His walking nightmare may have started as a science fiction experiment but solidified into belief; he later wrote, "All I know today that I didn't know when I wrote Ubik is that Ubik isn't fiction." Who knows, maybe the only way we can stop Dick's mode of reality is by spraying our own Ubik can.
First published in 1969, this first Book Club Edition was released several months later with corresponding gutter code (28K).
[Anatomy of Wonder, 4-214; Currey, 158].
Price: $450.00