The Zap Gun

Overview:

  • Title: The Zap Gun
  • Author: Philip K. Dick
  • Year: 1967
  • Publisher: Pyramid Books
  • Price: $0.50
  • Pages: 176
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Zap Gun
  • Notes:
    • "First printing January, 1967"; no number line
    • Cover is credited to J. Gaughan on the back cover, the artwork also has his initials
    • Title page carries, quite apart from the main title, what may be the longest sub-title/descriptive of its kind: "Being that Most Excellent Account of Travails and Contayning Many Pretie Hystories By Him Set Foorth in Comely Colours and Most Delightfully Discoursed Upon as Beautified and Well Furnished Divers Good and Commendable in the Gesiht of Men of That Most Lamentable Wepens Fasoun Designer Lars Powderdry and What Nearly Became of Him Due to Certain Most Dreadful Forces." [spelling and capitalization as printed]