Imaginary Magnitude

  • San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, 1984
By Stanisław Lem; Marc E. Heine [trans.]
San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, 1984. Very Good/Very Good-. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, [1984]. First American Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; vi,[2],248pp. Dust jacket rather chipped and worn with smallish triangular loss at top edge of upper panel not approaching text, remainder mark to bottom textblock margin and very faint soil to fore-edge. About Very Good.

Collection of Lem's introductions to four imaginary and highly inventive works of twentieth-century literature--a manual for teaching English to bacteria, a treatise on using animated x-rays to create "pornograms," etc.

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