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Philip K. Dick is one of most popular science fiction writers who published 44 novels and about 121 short stories during his lifetime. Several of his works have been adapted into major Hollywood films including Minority Report, Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly and The Adjustment Bureau.
Nate D. Sanders Auctions sold a first edition copy of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep for $1,250 in 2013. Now worth almost 10x that. Please see details below:
First edition, first printing of ”Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” by Philip K. Dick, Doubleday & Co.: Garden City: 1968. In its original dustjacket bearing the $3.95 price, this volume bears the definitive first printing point of ”J5” to the bottom of page 210. The heavy existential themes that define Dick’s works are central in this novel, which he sets in a post-apocalyptic future society. This story has been adapted to stage, comic books, radio, and most successfully, to the screen in 1982’s ”Blade Runner,” starring Harrison Ford. Dick later said of director Ridley Scott’s picture: ”…my life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner…” The book was nominated for a Nebula Award and is ranked #6 on AFI’s list of the best sci-fi movies of all time. Other films adapted from Dick’s novels include Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Paycheck, Next, Screamers, and The Adjustment Bureau. 210pp. book is bound in grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Slightly cocked, with wear to board edges and a 0.75” tear to the cloth running up from the bottom of the front joint. Cracking to interior hinge at front pastedown. Missing front free endpaper, and toning to leaves and endpapers. In very good condition. Light toning to dustjacket and minor wear to spine edges, else near fine. Sold for $1,250.
We also sold this Philip K. Dick signed manuscript:
Manuscript Signed by Philip K. Dick on How to Write a Novel — Unpublished 5pp. Manuscript by Dick Outlines “This is how I write a book”
Philip K. Dick typed manuscript signed on how to write a novel. Interesting five page original manuscript was created for fellow science fiction author Ron Goulart circa 1965, and goes into great detail outlining how Dick develops his characters, the obstacles they face, and how multiple storylines intertwine. Entitled “The novel”, Dick ends the manuscript with the following paragraph, “Addendum. I am not saying, <> I am saying, <> The two propositions are rather a bit different, would you not say? Anyhow, dearly beloved, this is how PKD gets 55,000 words (the adequate mileage) out of his typewriter: by have [sic] 3 persons, 3 levels, 2 themes (one outer or world-sized, the other inner or individual-sized), with a melding of all, then, at last, a humane final note. This is, so to speak, my structure. ‘Nuf said. / Philip K. Dick / [signed] Phil Dick”. Five pages on five sheets measures 8.5″ x 11″. Light toning, and rust from paperclip impression at top of pages. Overall very good plus condition. Sold for $2,602.
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