"YOU HAVE TO CONSIDER WE'RE ONLY MADE OUT OF DUST": FIRST EDITION OF PHILIP K. DICK'S THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH

DICK, Philip K. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. New York: Doubleday, 1965. Octavo, original gray cloth, original dust jacket. $6500.

First edition of Dick's Nebula Award-winning science fiction novel.

"The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch more extremely than any previous Philip K. Dick book, inhabits the badlands within which the real and the ersatz interpenetrated: suppliers of a hallucinogenic drug which makes like tolerable for Martian colonists face opposition from the sinister Eldritch, whose own new drug (imaged in a language which recalls the Communion wafer) pre-empts reality entirely" (Clute & Nicholls, 329). Three Stigmata "would resemble the Knossos labyrinth if you tried to diagram it. For density of ideas and sheer trippiness, this one is hard to beat" (Molly Young in The New York Times). With a sticker price of $4.95 on top of the printed price, as is often the case: "this is not an issue point" (Currey, 127). Bookplate.

Book fine, dust jacket with very minor wear to spine ends and corners, a few marks to rear panel. A near-fine copy.