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DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP
by Dick, Philip K
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1968. First Edition. Arguably Dick's best-known and most widely-read work, a novel set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco, where Earth's life has been damaged by nuclear war and where most animal species are endangered or extinct. "In a future where technological sophistication has made the ersatz virtually indistinguishable from the real the hero is a bounty hunter who must track down and eliminate androids passing for human. But android animals are routinely passed off as real by people trying to purge human guilt for having exterminated so many living species, and the new messiah is an artificial construct; so where is the difference between the human and the androidal?" (Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 4-173). Levack 12a. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); light grey cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [vi],[3],4-210pp. Base of spine gently nudged, a faint, tiny rubbed spot to lower front cover, with subtle offsetting along the hinges, and a few faint, tiny foxed spots to upper right edge of textblock; contents fresh, spine gilt is bright, with the cloth unspoiled; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.95), lightly edgeworn and gently spine-sunned, with a few tiny nicks and tears to spine ends, and some light dust-soil to rear panel; an unrestored, Very Good+ example.
Synopsis
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dickis the masterpiece of science fiction that inspired the cult movie Blade Runner . By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep, and even humans. Nebula Award Nominee (1969)
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- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7021
- Title
- DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP
- Author
- Dick, Philip K
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1968
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About Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Founded in 2010, Captain Ahab's Rare Books specializes in first editions of literature, genre fiction, film-related books and ephemera, zines, manuscript and archival material.
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- Foxed
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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