To get closer to completing my Philip K. Dick first edition hardback collection, I picked up an imperfect copy of a very rare first.
Dick, Philip K. The World Jones Made. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1968. First hardback edition, an Ex-Library copy on which the dust jacket has been plasticized to the boards, with the front flap pasted onto the rear free endpaper, with library stamps, and slight age-darkening to pages; call it a Very Good Ex-Lib copy. Dick’s second published novel, originally published as half of an Ace Double. Probably the second hardest UK Dick hardback first to find (after The Penultimate Truth, which I already have), and it usually lists for several grand. Levack, 48g. Wintz & Hyde, Precious Artifacts, SF30.8. Currey, page 159. Bought from a UK book dealer for £327.
The only real hardback PKD firsts I lack (discounting Omnibus editions, etc.) is the Gregg Press Dr. Bloodmoney and the Doubleday Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
