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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Ace Double (D-150). A tight, square copy with some wear on the folds and edges. The spine has some light wrinkle and, of course, the usual paper toning. The number 10 written on the Philip K. Dick cover just above the title.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. BRILLAINT: DISTURBING: INCANDESCENT: EXHILIRATING: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2008) Fourth Printing: NEW handsomely-designed LOA jacket: IMPECCABLE Condition throughout * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.50", 0.76 kg, x+1140 (1150) pp ABOUT THE BOOK: "The most outré science fiction writer of the 20th century has finally entered the canon," exclaimed Wired Magazine upon The Library of America's May 2007 publication of Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s, edited by Jonathan Lethem. The following year came the companion volume collecting 5 novels that offer a breathtaking overview of the range of this science-fiction master. Philip K. Dick (1928-82) was a writer of incandescent imagination who made & unmade world-systems w/ ferocious rapidity & unbridled speculative daring. "The floor joists of the universe," he once wrote, "are visible in my novels." "Martian Time-Slip" (1964) unfolds on a parched & thinly colonized Red Planet where schizophrenia is a contagion & the unscrupulous seek to profit from a troubled child's time-fracturing visions. "Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb" (1965) chronicles the deeply-interwoven stories of a multi-racial community of survivors, including the scientist who may have been responsible for World War III. Famous, among other reasons, for a therapy session involving a talking taxicab, "Now Wait for Last Year" (1966) explores the effects of JJ-180, a hallucinogen that alters not only perception, but reality. In "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" (1974), a television star seeks to unravel a mystery that has left him stripped of his identity. "A Scanner Darkly" (1977), the basis for the 2006 film, envisions a drug-addled world in which a narcotics officer's tenuous hold on sanity is strained by his new surveillance assignment: himself. Mixing metaphysics & madness, phantasmagoric visions of a post-nuclear world & invading extraterrestrial authoritarians, & all-too-real evocations of the drugged-out America of the 70s, Dick's work remains exhilarating & unsettling in equal measure. * LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, & keeping permanently in print, America's best & most significant writing. The LiOA series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, & ribbon markers, & are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: PHILIP K. DICK (1928-1982) was the author of 36 novels & more than 120 stories, including such celebrated works as "The Man in the High Castle" & "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the film Blade Runner). He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2005. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: JONATHAN LETHEM is the author "Fortress of Solitude" & many other novels & story collections. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine LOA volume for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.