The Preserving Machine.
New York: Ace Books, [1970]. First hardcover edition, first printing. [i.e. Book Club Edition]. Full grey cloth, top edge stained green, in [Diane and Leo Dillon] dust jacket. 314 pp. 8.5" x 5.5" Numerous small tide marks top edge, else near fine in near fine, rubbed dust jacket, lightly sunned spine with small sticker shadow, in mylar cover. Item #244426
AT ODDS WITH ACE
Rankled from Ace editor Don Wollheim's 1965 rejection of an expanded The Unteleported Man, there was no love lost between Philip K. Dick and Ace Books. However, Terry Carr piqued Dick's interest when Carr asked for any new novel to publish in the prestigious Ace Science Fiction Specials (a series of paperbacks featuring the best sci-fi authors of the 60s and 70s). Carr's editing redeemed the author-publisher relationship, with Dick raving in a letter to Peter Fitting, "I'm very proud of it (It's called THE PRESERVING MACHINE, and the editor has so carefully combed my 150 odd stories so as to make it appear that I'm a good short story writer, which I am not)."
First published in April 1969 as an Ace paperback, this first hardcover edition followed in January 1970 as a Science Fiction Book Club release.
[Currey, 158].
Price: $125.00