Confessions Crap Artist Jack Isidore by Philip Dick (13 results)

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Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. First printing of 2012 reissue. Brand new. 248 pp. "One of Philip K. Dick's weirdest and most accomplished novels. Jack Isidore is a crap artist -- a collector of crackpot ideas (among other things, he believes that the earth is hallow and that sunlight has weight) and worthless objects, a man so grossly unequipped for real life that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to rescue him from it. But seen through Jack's murderously innocent gaze, Charlie and Juddy Hume prove to be just as sealed off from reality, in thrall to obsessions that are slightly more acceptable than Jack's, but a great deal uglier.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reissue edition. 248 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Michael Patrick Cronan [Cover art] (illustrator). First trade paperback edition and first. New edition and first edition thus - first trade paperback edition with the new introduction. The book was first published in hardback in 1975, then as a limited paperback edition. This edition is the first trade paperback edition, published in June 1978, with the full number-string sequence including the No. 1: 5 4 3 2 1 r on the publisher's copyright page. ***Six-page introduction by Paul Williams, written New York City February 1975. Colour cover art by Michael Patrick Cronan. ***Very good in colour-printed and illustrated wrappers. Edges of wrappers slightly rubbed and discoloured. Red titles to spine faded. White wrappers slightly discoloured. Spine tight. No reading creases to the spine. Owner's name in blue fibre-tip pen to top of half-title page: 'John Marley' 79'. Please note that the previous owner has added an 'artistic' sketch in the same blue fibre-tip pen to the end of chapter two, at the bottom of page 13 [see scan]. A very few light fox-marks to the fore edge of text-block. Top edge of text- block lightly discoloured. Interior pages clean. No tears. Colours to front and rear wrapper bright. ***216mm x 140mm. x prelim pages including introduction plus 171 pages. ***'Philip K. Dick is the Hugo-Award-winning author of The Man in the High Castle and dozens of other fine works. He is widely acclaimed as one of our best science fiction writers, which means one of our best writers. "Confessions of a Crap Artist" is the first non-science-fiction novel by Philip K. Dick that's ever been published. A hardcover collectors' edition was published in 1975 and is now out of print; copies are changing hands for $25 or more. The present edition is the first time this extraordinary novel has been available to the general public.' ***'A funny, horribly accurate portrait of life in California in the 1950's' [Rolling Stone] Quote and review quote from blurb to back and front wrapper respectively. ***Of interest to collectors of Philip K. Dick and vintage collectable paperback first editions. This trade first paperback edition is hard to find in the UK. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Mild shelfwear, front cover has small light yellow discoloration where price sticker was removed and a couple tiny faint moisture drops, edges lightly toning; 171 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. First printing of the 1975 First Edition limited to 500 copies. ; Of Seville, Calif. ; 8.3 X 5.5 X 0.4 inches; 171 pages.

x, 170 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. 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 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. First edition, Currey state (A), one of 500 copies in cloth, an unnumbered copy signed by the author (a signed issue of 90 numbered copies was also issued. x, 170 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The only "mainstream" novel published in Philip K. Dick's lifetime, originally written in 1959, the year he wrote Time out of Joint. Dick biographer Lawrence Sutin called it "Phil's first novel to put multiple narrative viewpoints to wild work." One of a handful of copies signed by Dick, but not numbered. This copy has the statement "First edition: 500 copies, cloth bound" on the copyright page. Currey p. 156; Levack 5; Wintz and Hyde MS1; Wessells 34 Original burgundy cloth titled in gilt. Fine copy First edition, Currey state (A), one of 500 copies in cloth, an unnumbered copy signed by the author (a signed issue of 90 numbered copies was also issued.

FIRST EDITION, 87/90 COPIES (from an edition of 500 copies) signed by the author, pp. x, 171, crown 8vo, original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip, top corners gently bumped, near fine. Early work, written in 1959, from the author's unsuccessful years - this, a non-sf novel, the only vestige of that impoverished time which the author cared to revive. The enthusiastic Introduction is by the publisher, music journalist Paul Williams.