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Dick, Philip K.
THE GOLDEN MAN
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1980
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Hardcover
Ken Barr

Book= near-Fine
Dustjacket= VG+ to near-Fine
ex-ChUSFA: stamp on first inside page, page 85. MORE INFO

Science Fiction Book Club: 1980 hardcover. Cover by Ken Barr, 325 pages. Condition is near-Fine in a VG+ to near-Fine dustjacket: book is tight and square with the usual light bumping to spine ends. Outer/upper corners show mild bump-traces also. Unclipped DJ has no tears and very little wear. Inside of dustjacket shows darkening on backside of endflaps, and tape traces where a cheap DJ protector had been attached. Pages are very white with no marks or writing.

A nice hardcover of Philip K. Dick's collection of stories: The Golden Man. This book club edition is the first hardcover edition, matching the contents of the original Berkley paperback from February of 1980.

The Golden Man
Return Match
The King of the Elves
The Mold of Yancy
Not By Its Cover
The Little Black Box
The Unreconstructed M
The War with the Fnools
The Last of the Masters
Meddler
A Game of Unchance
Sales Pitch
Precious Artifact
Small Town
The Pre-Persons

Also included are a Foreword by editor Mark Hurst, story notes and an Afterword by Philip K. Dick. Original appearances from 1954 to 1974 - in IF, Galaxy (2), Beyond, Famous SF, Worlds of Tomorrow, (The Original) Science Fiction Stories, Galactic Outpost, Orbit SF, Future SF (2), Amazing (2), and Magazine of F&SF. This is the first appearance in a P. K. Dick collection for any of these stories; 3 were later included in Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities and all can be found dispersed through the 5 volumes of the "Collected Philip K. Dick."






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