Valis and Later Novels: A Maze of Death / Valis / The Divine Invasion / The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

This Library of America volume collects four of Philip K. Dick's later works in a single authoritative edition: A Maze of Death (1970), VALIS (1981), The Divine Invasion (1981), and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982). A Maze of Death serves as a thematic bridge to the three novels that follow. Its colonists, stranded on a remote planet and unable to agree on the nature of the God controlling their fate, anticipate the theological obsessions that would define Dick's final decade. The three VALIS Trilogy novels that follow trace that obsession from its semi-autobiographical origins through to Transmigration, Dick's last completed work, which stands apart from the others as a realist novel narrated by a character who watches the pursuit of transcendence consume the people she loves. Library of America volume 193, first printing 2009. Edited and with notes by Jonathan Lethem.

Hardcover. First Edition thus, First Printing. Octavo, navy blue cloth blocked and titled in black and gilt on the spine. Issued without a dust jacket in slipcase. New York: Library of America, 2009. ISBN: 9781598530445. #11112.
Fine in original publisher's slipcase.