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Confessions of a Crap Artist. - Jack Isidore (of Seville, Calif.) A Chronicle of Verified Scientific Fact, 1945-1959. [Introduction by Paul Williams]
by Dick, Philip K
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- Original burgundy cloth titled in gilt. Fine copy
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New York: Entwhistle Books, 1975. First edition, one of the 410 trade copies in cloth (Currey Binding A). x, 170 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original burgundy cloth titled in gilt. Fine copy. First edition, one of the 410 trade copies in cloth (Currey Binding A). x, 170 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The only "mainstream" novel published in Dick's lifetime, originally written in 1959, around the time he composed Time out of Joint. Biographer Lawrence Sutin calls it "Phil's first novel to put multiple narrative viewpoints to wild work."
This copy signed by Paul Williams, founder of Crawdaddy!, author of the introduction to this book, and its publisher. Currey (2002) p. 125; Levack 5a; Wintz and Hyde MS1
This copy signed by Paul Williams, founder of Crawdaddy!, author of the introduction to this book, and its publisher. Currey (2002) p. 125; Levack 5a; Wintz and Hyde MS1
Synopsis
Confessions of a Crap Artist is a 1975 novel by Philip K. Dick, originally written in 1959. Dick wrote about a dozen non-science fiction novels in the period from 1948 to 1960; this is the only one published during his lifetime. The novel chronicles a bitter and complex marital conflict in 1950s suburban California from the perspective of the wife's brother, an obsessive compulsive amateur scientist.
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- Title
- Confessions of a Crap Artist. - Jack Isidore (of Seville, Calif.) A Chronicle of Verified Scientific Fact, 1945-1959. [Introduction by Paul Williams]
- Author
- Dick, Philip K
- Format/Binding
- X, 170 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Original burgundy cloth titled in gilt. Fine copy
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, one of the 410 trade copies in cloth (Currey Bind
- Publisher
- Entwhistle Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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