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ASTRONAUCI. POWIESC FANTASTYCZNO-NAUKOWA. [The Astronauts].
[Warszawa]: "Czytelnik" Spóldzielnia Wydawniczo-Oswiatowa, 1951. Octavo pp. [1-6] 7-334 [335] [336: blank] [337: contents] [338: colophon], cover designed by Jan Samuel Miklaszewski, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Lem's first published SF novel, a depiction of an ideal, socialist utopia. Basis of a 1960 film, Der Schweigende Stern.
MEMOIRS OF A SPACE TRAVELER: FURTHER REMINISCENCES OF IJON TICHY ... Translated by Joel Stern and Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek.
New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, [1982]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. A continuation of THE STAR DIARIES (1976). Several of Ijon Tichy's adventures involve machines: a galactic society of "Phools" governed by a dictatorial machine, and a new civilization of electrified human beings evolved from washing machines. [Reference: See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-331].
RETURN FROM THE STARS.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich, 1980. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
SOLARIS.
[Warszawa]: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, [1961]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. "...this novel combines profound philosophical speculation with the structure of traditional action-adventure SF, embodied in a clear, vivid writing style..." "A major work by any measure." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-115. Filmed twice, the first time a Russian release in 1972 directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (U. S. release in 1973) and filmed again in 2002 in the U. S. by Steven Soderbergh. [Reference: Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2107-12].