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The Man in the High Castle
by DICK, Philip K
- Used
- Condition
- Slightest wear to jacket at top of spine and fore-corner tips, light spotting on front, upper corner of front inside flap price
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Ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Slightest wear to jacket at top of spine and fore-corner tips, light spotting on front, upper corner of front inside flap price clipped, essentially a fine copy. 8vo, Original black cloth, lettered in red; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing of the author's Hugo Award winning alternative history novel. "It is probably Dick's best work, and the most memorable alternative world tale, or fantasia of historical possibility, ever written" - Pringle, 'Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, 37; Currey, p. 157. Small rubber stamp of the Wissners Library on front pastedown. With D36 code on p. 239. (BA).
Synopsis
The Man in the High Castle (1962), by Philip K. Dick, is a science fiction novel of the alternative history sub-genre. The novel won a Hugo Award. The story of The Man in the High Castle, about daily life for the victors and the vanquished under totalitarian Fascist imperialism, occurs in 1962, fourteen years after the end of a longer Second World War (1939–1948).
Reviews
On Mar 2 2015, a reader said:
Alternate history doesn't get any better than in this Philip K. Dick novel. Set in the then-contemporary world of 1962, it chronicles the lives of its characters in an America that had lost World War II and was divided into Japanese and German zones of occupation. Dick uses this setting to explore many of his standard themes about the nature of reality, but this is done within the framework of an enjoyable story that is never less than entertaining.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Riverrun Books & Manuscripts
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 409353
- Title
- The Man in the High Castle
- Author
- DICK, Philip K
- Book Condition
- Used - Slightest wear to jacket at top of spine and fore-corner tips, light spotting on front, upper corner of front inside flap price
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- From the Bart Auerbach Collection
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- Bart Auerbach
- Bookseller catalogs
- science fiction; Literature;
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Ardsley, New York
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