{"id":14569,"date":"2015-11-16T10:02:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T16:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=14569"},"modified":"2015-11-16T10:05:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T16:05:17","slug":"library-edition-philip-k-dicks-world-of-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=14569","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Philip K. Dick&#8217;s World of Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked the following up as part of a swap:<\/p>\n<p>Dick, Philip K. <b>World of Chance<\/b>. Rich and Cowan, 1956. First hardback edition and first thus under this title (the first hardback edition of Dick&#8217;s first published novel, published earlier in the U.S. as the paperback original <b>Solar Lottery<\/b>), an Ex-Library copy with tape ghosts to inside covers, slight signs of pocket removal from FFE, inner front hinge half-cracked, slight dust staining to page block edges, in a dust jacket that has about 1\/8&#8243; trimmed from top and bottom, and a larger amount (possibly 1\/4&#8243; to 1\/2&#8243;) trimmed from inner flaps, not removing any text, but trimming the flap edges right to the edge of the text block, plus tape ghosts and a touch of edgewear; call it a Very Good-\/Good+ Ex-Library copy, though it presents much better than that list of flaws would lead you to believe. Currey (1979), page 159. Levack, 38b. One of the rarest Dick hardcovers. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/World-of-Chance.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/World-of-Chance-208x300.jpeg\" alt=\"World of Chance\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/World-of-Chance-208x300.jpeg 208w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/World-of-Chance-710x1024.jpeg 710w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/World-of-Chance.jpeg 1520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked the following up as part of a swap: Dick, Philip K. World of Chance. Rich and Cowan, 1956. First hardback edition and first thus under this title (the first hardback edition of Dick&#8217;s first published novel, published earlier in the U.S. as the paperback original Solar Lottery), an Ex-Library copy with tape ghosts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[1973,97,86,1970],"class_list":["post-14569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-first-edition","tag-philip-k-dick","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14569"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14577,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14569\/revisions\/14577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}