Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first UK hardcover edition, first printing of Deus Irae by Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny in a new archival wrap. First Edition stated, 1977 Victor Gollancz. First Printing without any subsequent printing.
The book is in Very Good condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and lightly bumped corners. The interior of the book is also in Very Good condition with a price, stamped date and two large Greenwich Library Book Sale ink stamps on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The rear end paper and the interior pages are clean and evenly toned.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with the price present on the front flap, and mild surface and edge wear. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, Philip K. Dick wrote more than one hundred short stories over the course of his career, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer works. Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams collects ten of the best. In “Autofac,” Dick shows us one of the earliest examples (and warnings) in science fiction of self-replicating machines. “Exhibit Piece” and “The Commuter” feature Dick exploring one of his favorite themes: the shifting nature of reality and whether it is even possible to perceive the world as it truly exists. And “The Hanging Stranger” provides a thrilling, dark political allegory as relevant today as it was when Dick wrote it at the height of the Cold War.
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