Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974) Signed First Edition Reference

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said follows Jason Taverner, a television star and celebrity who wakes up one morning in a world where no one has ever heard of him — his identification records have been erased, his fame has vanished, and he is suddenly nobody in a police state that demands identification for survival. Published by Doubleday in 1974, the novel won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

The Book

The premise — a famous person reduced to anonymity — allows Dick to explore identity not as a philosophical abstraction but as a practical problem. Without ID papers, Taverner is hunted by the police state. The novel’s emotional power comes from the ordinary terror of being rendered invisible in a bureaucratic system.

First Edition Identification

Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York Publication date: 1974 Format: Hardcover in dust jacket

Signed Copy Market Values

• Signed first edition, fine/fine: $3,000–$8,000
• Unsigned first edition, fine/fine: $300–$800

An important late-middle-period Dick novel. The Campbell Award and the book’s emotional accessibility make it one of the more widely read Dick novels, ensuring strong collector demand.