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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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Details
- 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
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
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About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
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- VG+/VG
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- Good+
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- Gutter
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- Sunned
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- Title Page
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- Edges
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