Martian Time Slip
by Dick, Philip K
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0450029786
- ISBN 13
- 9780450029783
- Seller
-
Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New English Library, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. First thus; the first UK edition, previously serialized in 'Worlds of Tomorrow' in August-December of 1963, and appearing in the US in a paperback from Ballantine in 1964. This is the first edition in hardback. Blue hardback with gold titling and decoration, very good with sunning along top and bottom edges, light edgewear, bumped spine ends. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket good+ or very good- in Mylar, moderately edgeworn, with a few tiny closed tears and creasing, and minor chipping at top fore-edge corners. Interior tanned to margins; first and last few pages foxed; text else clean and unmarked.
Synopsis
Martian Time-Slip is a 1964 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. The novel uses the common science fiction concept of a human colony on Mars. However, it also includes the themes of mental illness, the physics of time and the dangers of centralized authority. The novel is expanded from Dick's original novella All We Marsmen, published in three parts in the August, October and December 1963 issues of Worlds of Tomorrow magazine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book Bin (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BBS-2020782
- Title
- Martian Time Slip
- Author
- Dick, Philip K
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0450029786
- ISBN 13
- 9780450029783
- Publisher
- New English Library
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1976
- Size
- 0x0x0
- X weight
- 16 oz
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Spine
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- Edges
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- First Edition
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
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