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Lot 183
Dick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? London: Rapp & Whiting, 1969. First UK edition, 8vo, original boards, dust jacket, label of library suppliers A & B Cox to front pastedown, each cover attached to dust jacket by strip of self-adhesive tape over top and bottom edge, jacket with resulting stain to top edge of front and rear panel, rubbing along extremities, and a couple of nicks, together with The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1988-90 (5 volumes, 8vo, original boards, dust jacket, similar condition) (6)Note: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was the basis for the 1982 film Blade Runner.
Lot 740
DICK PHILIP K.: (1928-1982) American science fiction writer whose novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) was adapted for the cult movie Blade Runner (1982). A remarkable collection of six T.Ls.S., love, Phil, each with a small drawing of a heart and arrow in his hand at the side of the signatures, twenty-one pages (total), 4to, n.p. (Santa Ana, California), February 1981, all to Professor Patricia Warrick (‘Dear Pat’). Over a period of just a few days Dick writes at great length to his correspondent (three of the letters written on the same day, 14th February, of which one runs to seven pages) and discusses various topics including his VALIS trilogy, Christianity and religion, philosophers including Plato, Plotinus, Dante, Malebranche, Kant, Mercia Eliade and others, American politics (likening the United States President to the ‘grim king’ who must be overthrown), reincarnation, the occult, consciousness of time, the films Star Wars and All That Jazz and other subjects, perhaps most importantly the series of mystical experiences he faced in 1974.Brief extracts from the letters include –‘I just reread VALIS in its entirety. I now understand. There is another “time” or reality; it does not lie in the future…..Like the dream-time (perhaps because it is the dream-time) it is now and it is here. It is disclosed by sacrament and by God’s grace through revelation – revelation of Christian apocalyptic history, exactly as I saw. In this other time (illo tempore) Christ is present, but in our linear flux time he is not and, perhaps, never will be. This is exactly and precisely what February 1974 to February 1975 consisted of……The two times or realms bear some kind of relation to each other; in some way they interact (or have a common basis), but I can’t say how. This explains why I “remembered” in February 1974 when I saw the golden fish sign…..It is world as God’s plantation, and the whole story is in VALIS. The search at the end for the savior is a search by Fat (myself) to find the way back to that world, misconstrued in terms of space, and in terms of time….VALIS was Christ, but the question as to whether I went there or he came here totally baffles me…..The faith that Fat and Phil feel at the end of VALIS is the only route; it must be absolute, unfailing and eternal; and yet still God’s grace is necessary if the savior is to be “found”. VALIS is a valid, true, accurate and sufficient account of participation in this other time or realm where Christ is rather than is not…..As Plotinus says, this is not a journey through space; it is a journey from a lower realm to a higher one. All this is very strange, but I know it absolutely upon rereading VALIS. I know it but I can’t explicate or propound it; yet what I say is true…..VALIS, then, is an extraordinary and extraordinarily important record of this finding of this other reality, realm, world of time. I repeat: beyond doubt, what was found is absolutely real’. (10th February 1981) ‘When I reread VALIS the other day…..there was something else I noticed, something I had not realised was there. A coherent system for political action of a revolutionary nature can dimly be apprehended through the obscuring layers of philosophy and theology and science fiction. I am wondering, therefore, what effect – if any – VALIS will have on born-again Christians, inasmuch as they are into apocalyptic speculations – as my novel is. Just as in Revelation “Babylon” is identified as Rome, I go on and identity “Rome” as the imperial American Presidency. I bipolarize true Christianity to this modern-day Rome and stigmatize the American Government as the incarnation and physical manifestation of Satan…..In fact, VALIS seems to me to be a very political book – virtually a manifesto and to a certain extent even a handbook of rebellion…….Deconstructed, VALIS, then, is a political novel, more so than any I’ve previously written. What apparently happened in March 1974 was that my political views and my religious inclinations and convictions, which up to then were at odds, fused as thesis and antithesis in me into one higher synthesis, so that my theology can be said to have explicit political implications, or it can with equal accuracy be said that I now see my political views as emanating from divine authority, represented in VALIS by Sophia and of course by VALIS itself in the movie Valis. Which is to say, its successful attack on and overthrow of Nixon……Once again my right hand did not know what my left hand was doing. I thought I was writing a theological, philosophical novel; but, as I say, in view of the regime that has just now come to power here in the U.S., VALIS can be interpreted as a call for political action against that regime, and not limiting itself to legal acts. It is as if upon experiencing a Christian conversion (March 1974) I then went on and wrote the political novel that up to then I had always been afraid to write – wanted to write but feared to……Oddly, VALIS, then, is the reverse of FLOW MY TEARS, wherein the overt or external or outer or exoteric message is political…..VALIS appears to be theological and yet carries a covert message in which violent revolution against the regime is preached…..What is strange is that in writing VALIS I was totally unaware that I was preaching revolution, the same revolution I have always preached; but, now possessing divine sanction, in fact divine authorship, I was free (as I say) for the first time to come forth and preach it openly…..I am, frankly, very joyful that I got such a radical political novel published – in the guise of a theological-philosophical sci-fi novel……So I guess I experienced what Jung calls “the reconciliation of the psychic opposites”, this being what March 1974 was all about; the opposites (politics and religion) were fused into a higher synthesis…..and out of this came VALIS. When one reflects on the current political climate, VALIS is extraordinary indeed, and very much needed’ (12th February 1981) ‘I wish to put forth a very powerful argument regarding the spiritual, psychological effect of apprehending the Forms through anamnesis, because I now understand – I think – what the mind of the percipient fathoms when he apprehends that Forms exist, and apprehends them specifically through anamnesis: the loss of amnesia and hence the recovery of prenatal memories. It is pointed out somewhere in my reference books…..that a recollection of a former life or even of several or many former lives is not a guarantee of immortality. This is a logical error often made; viz: if I lived before this lifetime I will therefore live again after this lifetime. But this does not follow; this lifetime could be the final one…..This is why occult books dealing with reincarnation are really not worth anything….. (13th February 1981) Each of the letters are accompanied by the original envelopes. A remarkable series of letters, rich in their content. VG to about EX, 6RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY THE SALEROOM MEAN THE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION CAN'T BE DISPLAYED. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Lot 385
Sci-Fi / Fantasy Film Posters, nineteen One Sheet posters for mainly Sci-Fi and Fantasy Films including Advance and Teasers and comprising Star Wars - The Force Awakens, Star Trek, Blade Runner 2049, Matrix Revolutions, Superman Returns (two), Independence Day, Aliens vs Predator, Terminator 3 (two), Terminator Salvation, Jurassic World - Alien Kingdom, The Hobbit, War Of The Worlds (two), I Robot, Cowboys and Aliens, The Crimes of Grindelwald and Pirates of the Caribbean at World's End - all double sided, rolled and mainly in Very Good condition - all measure 40" by 27"
Lot 635
A GROUP OF CUT CRYSTAL GLASSWARES, approximately thirty pieces, to include a large Waterford pedestal bowl engraved 'Hospice Trophy, Runner-Up, 2000, Millennium' diameter 22cm (chipped), other items to include vases tallest 28cm, rose bowls, paperweights, drinking glasses (some personalisation), a carafe, a paperweight, trophies and candlesticks, by manufacturers including Tutbury Crystal and Stuart, etc (30+) (Condition report: most pieces appear in good condition, some damage and as stated, one trophy broken)
Lot 21
THIS VW WESTFALIA T2 CAMPER FEATURING THE DESIRABLE "POP TOP" HAS BEEN SAT ON THE CURRENT KEEPERS DRIVEWAY FOR THE BEST PART OF 10 YEARS, THEY HAVE OWNED IT SINCE 2008 AND DUE TO NOT BEING USED IT IS NOW TIME FOR IT TO BE SOLD. IT CURRENTLY SHOWS 68,472 MILES (NOT WARRANTED). PRIOR TO THIS IN 2006 IT HAD A TOP END REBUILD INCLUDING HEADS, BARRELS, PISTONS, ETC. IT WAS ALSO AT SOME POINT REPAINTED IN IT'S LOVELY STAND-OUT GREEN AND WHITE (PREVIOUSLY BLUE AND WHITE). WE HAVE HAD THE VEHICLE RUNNING BRIEFLY AFTER A NEW FUEL PUMP AND FUEL HOSE WAS FITTED, HOWEVER THE VEHICLE IS BEING SOLD AS A NON RUNNER REQUIRING RECOMMISSIONING DUE TO IT BEING SAT FOR AWHILE. IT IS FULLY EQUIPPED WITH A KITCHENETTE, "ROCK'N'ROLL BED", VARIOUS STORAGE CUPBOARDS, KENWOOD HEAD UNIT AND SPEAKERS ARE FITTED, RE-TRIMMED LEATHER SEATS. THERE IS A LARGE HISTORY FILE WITH THE VEHICLE INCLUDING LOTS OF MAINTENANENCE AND PARTS INVOICES DATING BACK TO THE 80'S, MOT'S AND OLD PICTURES OF THE CAMPER IN ACTION BY PREVIOUS OWNERS.
Lot 511
A Persian woollen runner, with three central medallions, on a blue ground, 440 x 98cm, together with a prayer rug (2)Overall the larger rug is dirty and heavily worn, with a large repaired area to one end, measuring 10 x 25cm. Margins are worn. Looks to have some age. These were removed from a local house clearance, where they were being used.
Lot 465
Five 'OO' Gauge/4mm diesel Locomotives, a Bachmann Ref 32-450 boxed Class 170 Midland Marine (non runner requires attention), a Lima unboxed Class 47 R/No EWS 67004 (good), a Lima Deltic 'Meld' R/No D9003, A Hornby class 128 Parcels powered unit R/No W55992, plus a Class 47 Freight liner, body only, R/No 47376 (loc's untested).
Lot 649
Four 'N' Gauge Locomotives Boxed, a Bachmann Ref No 58066 U.S.A Outline 4-8-4 plus tender (body loose to chassis), a Graham Farish 4-6-2 Class A3 (poor paint, incorrect box), a Hornby Minitrix Ref No N.203 2-10-0 9F BR black R/No 92018 (l/h rods damaged), and a Hornby Minitrix Ref No N210 Class 47 Intercity Diesel (non runner).
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