33 “You Have To Consider We’re Only Made Out Of Dust” 46DICK, Philip K. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. New York, 1965. Octavo, original gray cloth, dust jacket. $6500 First edition of Dick’s Nebula Award-winning science fiction novel. “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch more extremely than any previous Philip K. Dick book, inhabits the badlands within which the real and the ersatz interpenetrated: suppliers of a hallucinogenic drug which makes like tolerable for Martian colonists face opposition from the sinister Eldritch, whose own new drug (imaged in a language which recalls the Communion wafer) pre-empts reality entirely” (Clute & Nicholls, 329). Book fine, dust jacket with very minor wear to spine ends and corners, a few marks to rear panel. A near-fine copy. “Let’s Hear It For The Vague Blur!” 47DICK, Philip K. A Scanner Darkly. Garden City, 1977. Octavo, original tan paper boards, dust jacket. $1750 First edition of Dick’s “suburban phantasmagoria” (New York Times): his finely crafted and frightening vision of drug culture, social conformity, and the struggle to discern reality. Although many of Philip K. Dick’s works in the 1960s employ “a language singularly familiar with the large repertory of mind-states accessible through the use of drugs,” only with this 1977 novel did the author “explore the more negative human implications of drug-taking, though with an almost hallucinated vehemence” (Clute & Nicholls, 329). The gripping tale of a narcotics agent in hot pursuit of himself, A Scanner Darkly revisits Dick’s life-long fascination with the inability to distinguish the real from the unreal to terrifying effect. “A Scanner Darkly is Dick’s most politically astute novel” (Christopher Palmer, Science Fiction Studies 18:3). Currey, 126. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine with slight soiling to back panel and minor rubbing to extremities.
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