A Perfect Vacuum: Perfect Reviews of Nonexistent Books

Lem, Stanislaw; Kandel, Michael (translator)

ISBN 10: 0151716978 / ISBN 13: 9780151716975

Published by Harcourt, Brace, Javanovich, New York, 1979

About this Item

1st American Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED by Lem on a a small plain white bookplate decal on front end page (signature only). $8.95 price on DJ flap; mylar protected. Bookplate signed in 1987- photocopy of return envelope, postmarked Feb. 1987, from Lem's literary agent in Vienna. Very scarce signature from Sci-Fi master Lem. (Bonus: Comes with a unsigned 1st Printing hardcover copy of Lem's "Memoirs of a Space Traveller"). NOTE: No international orders for this item. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 023141

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Perfect Vacuum: Perfect Reviews of ...

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace, Javanovich, New York

Publication Date: 1979

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine+

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine+

Signed: Signed by Author

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

This is a collection of perfect yet imaginary reviews of nonexistent books. With insidious wit, the author beguiles us with a parade of delightful, disarmingly familiar inventions. "Lem is Harpo Marx and Franz Kafka and Isaac Asimov rolled up into one and down the white rabbit's hole" (Detroit News). A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

About the Author:

Stanislaw Lem is the most widely translated and best known science fiction author writing outside of the English language. Winner of the Kafka Prize, he is a contributor to many magazines, including the New Yorker, and he is the author of numerous works, including Solaris.