THE BROKEN BUBBLE: A Novel

First edition, first printing. Original blue boards, quarter-bound in cream cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in the dustwrapper designed by Paula Thomson. A lovely fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine unclipped dustwrapper ($16.95 to the front flap) that remains without fading, loss or tears.

Written in 1956 and published posthumously, 'The Broken Bubble' is one of a series of non-SF novels Dick wrote between 1952 and 1960 (during the same period he was publishing science fiction stories in various Pulp magazines). "[A] novel of San Francisco in the 1950s, about the unusual events that mix up and entwine the lives of four people at a turning point in American culture [...]" (from the jacket).