LEM- SOLARIS issue 1, binding

LEM Stanislaw

SOLARIS

Wrapper, cover and title page designed by Konstanty Maria Sopoćko.

Warsaw 1961, MON, pp. 196, [3]; format 20 cm, Booklet binding with wrapper.

First edition!

On the front wrapper leaf a biography of the writer. Reissuing Lem's novel in 1999, the publisher (Wyd. Literackie) wrote: "'Solaris' is Stanislaw Lem's most famous work - a book that enters the collection of classic works of science fiction literature, which no serious monograph of the genre can do without."

HARDBACK CONTEMPORARY LEATHER BINDING. FLAT SPINE WITH SILVER-PLATED TITLING. ON COVERS MARBLED LEATHER, MARQUETRY AND SILVER-PLATED DETAILS. MARBLED BOARDS, STAINED PAGE EDGES. PRESERVED FRONT WRAPPER AND PUBLISHER'S COVER

BDB-/ condition, wrapper repaired, tape marks on wrapper, cover and front cover, BEAUTIFUL EXEMPLOYMENT IN LUXURY COVER.