Second Variety

Overview:

  • Title: Second Variety
  • Author: Philip K. Dick
  • Year: Unknown
  • ISBN-10: 9781857988802
  • Publisher: Gollancz / Orion
  • Price: £7.99
  • Pages: [8]+395
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Second Variety
  • Notes:
    Undated 7th printing of the 1999 Millennium edition, reissued by Gollancz / Orion. Title page:
    • "Volume Two [over] The Collected Short Stories [over] of Philip K. Dick [over] Second Variety [over] Philip K. Dick [over] Introduction by Norman Spinrad"
    • Gollancz colophon as imprint.
    Copyright page:
    • "Copyright © 1987 The Estate of Philip K. Dick"
    • "Introduction © 1987 by Norman Spinrad"
    • "The excerpt which appears at the beginning of this volume is from a collection [over] of interviews with the author conducted by Paul Williams and published in [over] Only Apparently Real, Arbor House, 1986."
    • "This edition published in Great Britain in 1999 by [over] Millennium [over] An imprint of Victor Gollancz"
    • "Reissued by Gollancz [over] An imprint of the Orion Publishing Group"
    • Number line: "10 9 8 7"
    Back cover:
    • "UK £7.99" (no additional pricing)
    • Wrap-around art. No cover art credit. Artist credit from here.
    • 13-digit ISBN (throughout)
    All the pages before The Cookie Lady are unnumbered. The Introduction is signed on p.[4]: "Norman Spinrad [over] October, 1986". A 3-paragraph interview, on unnumbered p.[5] is captioned below: "— Philip K. Dick in an interview, 1974" The interview quote is different to that appearing, identically, in The Father-Thing published by both Voyager and Gollancz. Gloss cover.