Solaris

New York: Walker and Company, 1970. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Afterword by Darko Suvin. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($4.95), generally toned and and soiled, faded at the spine, a few shallow chips. White boards, toned at the edges, bumped at the bottom edges. Firmly bound with a yellow top stain, slight forward lean, clean internally. Lem's classic science fiction novel the presents the nature of man as "a creature who soars off into the cosmos in quest of other worlds and greedy for scientific knowledge, without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, without discovering what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.