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![Item #23489 ASTRONAUCI. POWIESC FANTASTYCZNO-NAUKOWA. [The Astronauts]. Stanislaw Lem](/pictures/thumb/23489.jpg?v=1640285849)
ASTRONAUCI. POWIESC FANTASTYCZNO-NAUKOWA. [The Astronauts].
[Warszawa]: 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. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-331.
RETURN FROM THE STARS.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich, 1980. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
SOLARIS.
New York: Walker and Company,U.S. edition. 1970. Octavo, cloth. First edition in English. The first book by Lem published in English. Translated from a French translation by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. "...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. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-115. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2107-12.
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. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2107-12.