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First edition, first printing of ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'' by Philip K. Dick, Doubleday & Co.: Garden City: 1968. In its original dustjacket bearing the $3.95 price, this volume bears the definitive first printing point of ''J5'' to the bottom of page 210. The heavy existential themes that define Dick's works are central in this novel, which he sets in a post-apocalyptic future society. This story has been adapted to stage, comic books, radio, and most successfully, to the screen in 1982's ''Blade Runner,'' starring Harrison Ford. Dick later said of director Ridley Scott's picture: ''...my life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner...'' The book was nominated for a Nebula Award and the film won art direction and visual effects Oscars. It is ranked #6 on AFI's list of the best Sci-Fi movies of all time. Other films adapted from Dick's novels include Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Paycheck, Next, Screamers, and The Adjustment Bureau. 210pp. book is bound in grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Slightly cocked, with wear to board edges and a 0.75'' tear to the cloth running up from the bottom of the front hinge exterior. Cracking to interior hinge at front pastedown. Detached front free endpaper bears library rubber-stamped checkout dates. Toning to leaves and endpapers. In good condition. Light toning to dustjacket and minor wear to spine edges, else near fine. True first print of a sci-fi classic and mainstream hit, by one of the great literary and philosophical minds of the 21st century.
First Printing of ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'' by Sci-Fi Legend Philip K. Dick -- The Novel That Inspired The Film ''Blade Runner''
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