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Ubik
by Dick, Philip K
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday / SFBC, 1969. Book Club Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club edition first printing July 1969. Hardback book is tight and clean with a slight lean. Boards sharp and very clean. Minor bump to head and foot of spine, title gilt perfect. Text block clean, with light toning to edges. There are some light spots to the top edge, the foreedge is deckle edged. The pages are crisp and unblemished, nice and white. Feels lightly read and still tight. There is an previous owners untidy biro name and address to the front pastedown, that is mostly covered with the front flap. Grades very good. Jacket is complete and tidy, generally there are some minor spotting to the front and rear panels. There are very minor rubs to the foredge corners. There is some very minor chipping to the top edge of the front panel at joint. Also a single tiny chip to the top edge of the rear panel. The jacket spine is toned, however does not appear to be sunned as the delicate pink author name still retains good colour. Overall a solid very good copy. For grading accuracy books are photographed without a protective book cover. This book is fitted with a non adhesive archival quality book protector to make a worthy addition to your collection. Note we do not use stock images, the book pictured is the book described. A solid collectors copy of this title. The jacket is very tidy, and presents well. First Book Club printing July 1969 with gutter code '28K' on page 203. These book club first printings are becoming increasingly hard to find, certainly in this condition. A cost effective filler for a PKD collector.
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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Details
- Seller
- Durdles Books (IOBA)
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 006014
- Title
- Ubik
- Author
- Dick, Philip K
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday / SFBC
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Pages
- 202
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.10 lbs
- Keywords
- General
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Durdles Books (IOBA)
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About the Seller
Durdles Books (IOBA)
Biblio member since 2018
Birmingham, West Midlands
About Durdles Books (IOBA)
Durdles Books is an online bookshop that specialises in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Modern Firsts and Genre Fiction. We also have books in many other categories and think our stock is both varied and interesting. We are constantly busy sourcing new stock in great condition, as collectors ourselves we appreciate that there is nothing like finding a lovely copy of a book that is on "the list". We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA), so you can be assured of our commitment to good bookselling practices and customer service.
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Chipping
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- Sunned
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Spine
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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