A Perfect Vacuum: Perfect Reviews of Nonexistent Books

Lem, Stanislaw; Kandel, Michael (translator)

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ISBN 10: 0151716978 ISBN 13: 9780151716975

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

Language: English

Condition: Used Hardcover

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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 7�" - 9�" tall.

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A Perfect Vacuum: Perfect Reviews of Nonexistent Books

Publisher

Harcourt, Brace, Javanovich, New York

Publication Date

1979

Language

English

ISBN 10

0151716978

ISBN 13

9780151716975

Binding

Hard Cover

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1st Edition

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Near Fine+

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Signed by Author

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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

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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.

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