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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
by Dick, Philip K
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday and Company, 1968. First edition of this cornerstone in science fiction. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear to the spine tips. Jacket design by Harry Sehring. An exceptional example, scarce in this condition. Set in a post-apocalyptic near future, the novel follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who is faced with retiring six escaped androids. At its core, the novel explores the essential issues of the meaning and destiny of humanity. Nominated for the 1968 Nebula Award and basis for the 1982 film Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford and the 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049 starring Ford and Ryan Gosling.
Synopsis
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dickis the masterpiece of science fiction that inspired the cult movie Blade Runner . By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep, and even humans. Nebula Award Nominee (1969)
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- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140198
- Title
- Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
- Author
- Dick, Philip K
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Androids dream of electric sheep, Philip K. Dick First Edition
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About Raptis Rare Books
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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