DICK, Philip K. "The Man in the High Castle" [Berkeley Medallion Books, 1974]

DICK, Philip K. The Man in the High Castle

New York: Berkeley Medallion Books, April 1974. First Berkeley Medallion paperback edition, first printing of this issue. Originally published in 1962 and winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel. 7" x 4.25". Mass market paperback. Original pictorial wrappers printed in yellow, red, and black with striking cover art and period promotional band noting it as “One of the greatest s-f novels of all time.” Light shelfwear only, with faint rubbing and a touch of handling at extremities, spine uncreased, binding tight and square, pages clean and notably fresh with bright yellow page edges. An unusually sharp survivor for a heavily read science fiction paperback. Near Fine.

Philip K. Dick’s landmark alternate-history novel imagines a world in which the Axis powers won the Second World War and divided the United States between Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Widely regarded as one of the defining works of twentieth-century science fiction, this Berkeley issue is one of the most recognizable early collectible paperback appearances of the novel, and copies in this condition are increasingly scarce.