A Scanner Darkly
by Dick, Philip K
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0385016131
- ISBN 13
- 9780385016131
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. early printing. Hardcover. 0385016131 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 220 pages; 1977 Doubleday & Company HC/DJ. Early printing with 1977 year on title page, no statement of edition and H13 date code in the gutter of page 216. Snugly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $6.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Light remainder spray bottom edge. Dust jacket just a trifle sunned at spine and light shelf rubbed at edges. VG+/VG .
Synopsis
A Scanner Darkly is a BSFA Award winning 1977 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. The semi-autobiographical story is set in a dystopian Orange County, California in the then-future of June 1994. It includes an extensive portrayal of drug culture and drug use.
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- Bookseller
- DogStar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51782
- Title
- A Scanner Darkly
- Author
- Dick, Philip K
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- early printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385016131
- ISBN 13
- 9780385016131
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- 0385016131
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