THE MAN WHO JAPED / THE SPACE-BORN - SIGNED by Dick, Philip K. and E.C. Tubb - 1956

New York: Ace Books, Inc, 1956. First Edition. Dick's fourth novel, set in the year 2114, after a limited nuclear war on earth. "Earth is in the repressive grip of Morec - Moral Reclamation - a spying, hereditary government. The only alternatives to its strict control are emigration or psychotherapy. Allen Purcell is one of the leaders of Morec; a man who designs ethical propaganda for the edification of the citizens. Without realizing the symbology behind his actions, Purcell has defaced the statue of Major Streeter, the central figure of Morec. It is not clear to Purcell whether his deeds mean revolution or insanity" (Levack 24a). Scarce signed. First Printing, a paperback original novel, bound dos-a-dos with E.C. Tubb's The Space-Born. Octavo (16.25cm); illustrated card wrappers; dark yellow edge-staining; 160,[1]; 158,[1]pp. Signed by Dick in an early hand on the title page. Light wear to extremities, some more modest wear to spine ends, tanning to text edges, with two faint diagonal creases to rear wrapper, and some old, faint, and shallow staining to upper edge of textblock (extending only slightly into the margin); Very Good or better.