Counter-Clock World (1967) Signed First Edition Reference

Counter-Clock World imagines a world where time has begun running backward: the dead emerge from their graves, people “eat” by regurgitating food, and the recently dead become valuable commodities. Published by Berkley Medallion in 1967, the novel is one of Dick’s most conceptually playful works — a high-concept premise explored with Dick’s characteristic interest in the social and economic implications of the impossible.

First Edition Identification

Publisher: Berkley Medallion, New York Publication date: 1967 Format: Mass-market paperback original

Signed Copy Market Values

• Signed first edition, fine: $800–$2,000
• Unsigned first edition, fine: $30–$75

A curiosity in the Dick bibliography — ambitious in concept, uneven in execution, but unmistakably the work of a mind that could not stop asking “what if?”