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A Maze of Death.
by DICK, Philip K
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company Inc.,, 1970. First edition, first printing, of one of Dick's darkest novels, a "bleak, poisoned exercise in theology, which has been described as his single finest work" (Clute & Nicholls). A Maze of Death stemmed from an attempt made by Dick and his friend William Sarill to "develop an abstract, logical system of religious thought, based on the arbitrary postulate that God exists" (Foreword). Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver. With dust jacket. "The Crack in Space" added in pencil to end of list of author's works. Spine cocked, ends slightly bumped, a little rubbing to spine ends and corners, rear free endpaper excised; jacket with a few nicks, unclipped: a very good copy in near-fine jacket. Clute & Nicholls, p. 329; Currey, p. 157; Locke, p. 69.
Synopsis
A Maze of Death is a 1970 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. Like many of Dick's novels, it portrays what appears to be a drab and harsh other-planet, human colony and explores the difference between reality and perception. It is, however, one of his few to explore the human death instinct and capacity for murder and is one of his darkest novels.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 165347
- Title
- A Maze of Death.
- Author
- DICK, Philip K
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company Inc.,
- Date Published
- 1970
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- New
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