"WE'RE NOT GOING TO CHARGE HIM WITH ANYTHING; I JUST WANT A FINGERPRINT, VOICEPRINT, FOOTPRINT, EEG WAVE PATTERN": FIRST EDITION OF PHILIP K. DICK'S FLOW MY TEARS, THE POLICEMAN SAID

DICK, Philip K. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Garden City: Doubleday, 1974. Octavo, original russet cloth, original dust jacket. $900.

First edition, first printing of Dick's award-winning science-fiction amnesia novel.

"Experiments with a world-shifting drug draw Jason Taverner, a famous entertainer, into an alternate reality in which he is more than anonymous. Taverner is immediately harassed by the police state organization of the new world. Taverner learns his displacement has been caused by Alys Buckman, the police commissioner's psychotic sister-lover, who is in love with him" (Levack 16a). "Dick skillfully explores the psychological ramifications of this nightmare" (New York Times). The novel was nominated for Nebula and Hugo awards and won the 1975 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel. First printing, with the year of publication on the title page and the code "O50" in the gutter of page 231 (Levack 16a). Currey, 125. Clute & Nicholls, 329. Barron, Anatomy of Wonder II-329.

Book fine, in a near-fine, lightly rubbed dust jacket.