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Ubik.
by DICK, Philip K
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.,, 1969. He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside First edition, first printing, of one of the author's most acclaimed works, a "masterpiece of malleability" that has resisted several attempts to adapt it for the screen; director Michel Gondry shelved work on his adaptation in 2014, remarking that "it was a dream, but in life you can't always have what you want" (quoted in Henz). Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in silver. With dust jacket, designed by Peter Rauch. Spine slightly cocked, light rubbing and a couple of slight bumps to extremities, contents clean; jacket rubbed, a few creases and tiny nicks to extremities, unclipped: a very good copy in very good jacket. Patrick Henz, "Neuromancer, Blade Runner & Ubik - 'Ethics Inside'", 18 November 2018, available online; Sam Jordison, "Philip K Dick's Ubik", 18 March 2014, available online.
Synopsis
Ubik is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. In 2005, Time magazine named it one of the 100 greatest English-language novels published since 1923; critic Lev Grossman described it as "a deeply unsettling existential horror story, a nightmare you'll never be sure you've woken up from".
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 171307
- Title
- Ubik.
- Author
- DICK, Philip K
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.,
- Date Published
- 1969
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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