DICK, Philip K. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. London: Jonathan Cape. 1966. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s cream cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Jan Pienkowski. A very good or better copy. The cloth clean and bright, a single brown spot to lower rear board, tiny spots to board edges, a trifle bumped. The binding tight and square, with some very mild spots to textblock edges and prelims, the contents else fine without stamps or inscriptions. The dust jacket unclipped (21s net) with three small closed tears to top edge, but a sharp copy overall.
A major work by PKD, one of the most important writers working in the twentieth century and undoubtedly a major figure in the science fiction genre. This novel more than anything else he wrote ‘inhabits the badlands within which the real and the ersatz interpenetrate: suppliers of a hallucinogenic Drug which makes life tolerable for Martian colonists face opposition from the sinister Eldritch, whose own new drug, Chew-Z pre-empts reality entirely.’ [sfe]. A striking example.
DICK, Philip K. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. London: Jonathan Cape. 1966. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s cream cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Jan Pienkowski. A very good or better copy. The cloth clean and bright, a single brown spot to lower rear board, tiny spots to board edges, a trifle bumped. The binding tight and square, with some very mild spots to textblock edges and prelims, the contents else fine without stamps or inscriptions. The dust jacket unclipped (21s net) with three small closed tears to top edge, but a sharp copy overall.
A major work by PKD, one of the most important writers working in the twentieth century and undoubtedly a major figure in the science fiction genre. This novel more than anything else he wrote ‘inhabits the badlands within which the real and the ersatz interpenetrate: suppliers of a hallucinogenic Drug which makes life tolerable for Martian colonists face opposition from the sinister Eldritch, whose own new drug, Chew-Z pre-empts reality entirely.’ [sfe]. A striking example.
