These copies are in stock and ship from England.

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale is the seventh title in Short Stops, a series from Conversation Tree Press dedicated to bringing exceptional shorter works of fiction to life through beautifully bound, letterpress-printed, limited editions that begin shipping immediately upon announcement. See the full announcement here.

What is real? In We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, Philip K. Dick brings that question to bear on the most intimate territory imaginable—the memories that form the bedrock of a human life, and how easily, it turns out, they can be bought and sold.

First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1966, and the basis for Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the story follows Douglas Quail, a mild-mannered clerk consumed by an impossible dream: to visit Mars.

Unable to afford the journey, he turns to Rekal, Incorporated, a company that offers something tantalizingly close—implanted memories of an adventure he never had. But something goes wrong, and the line between implanted memory and reality begins to blur.

Compact and relentless, the story moves with the momentum of a thriller while exploring the philosophical terrain that defines Dick’s best work—questions of identity, authenticity, and the nature of reality.

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick is a limited edition of 500 unnumbered copies, letterpress printed by Ascensius Press in Maine on Neenah Cotton Pearl White Letterpress 118gsm paper. It features three full-colour illustrations by Peter Strain and the book is quarter-bound in book cloth and paste papers hand-painted by Victoria Hall. The endpapers are GF Smith Colorplan with a linen finish.

All copies are signed by the artist.