Description:
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1955]. First edition. Edge rubbing, reading creases to spine, a very good copy. (30298). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Ace Double Novel Books D-103. The author's first book. Issued later in Britain with textual changes made by Dick at the request of his publisher as WORLD OF CHANCE (1956). "Dick's first major work." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-334. Bound with THE BIG JUMP by Leigh Brackett.
SOLAR LOTTERY [TOGETHER WITH] THE BIG JUMP by Dick, Philip K. and Leigh Brackett - 1955
by Dick, Philip K. and Leigh Brackett
SOLAR LOTTERY [TOGETHER WITH] THE BIG JUMP
by Dick, Philip K. and Leigh Brackett
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- Paperback
- first
New York: Ace Books, Inc, 1955. First Edition. Dick's first book, presenting a society in which "anyone may become world director by the random selection of his power card within a magnetic bottle. Most people have sold their power cards and thus placed themselves in thrall to the powerful feudal economic barrons. A renegade politician with his eyes on the stars becomes director, and the deposed feudal baron attempts his assassination with the aid of a pseudo-human construct" (Levack 38a). First Printing, a paperback original novel, bound dos-a-dos with Leigh Brackett's The Big Jump. Octavo (16cm); illustrated wrappers; dark yellow edge-staining; 188,[1]; 131pp. Light wear to joints and extremities, a few stress creases to wrappers, with a faint stain to upper left corner of the cover on The Big Jump; Very Good+.
- Bookseller Captain Ahab's Rare Books (US)
- Book Condition Used
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition First Edition
- Binding Paperback
- Publisher Ace Books, Inc
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1955