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Lem, Stanislaw.
Return from the Stars.
Publisher: Secker & Warburg, London;
Date of Publication: 1980
Stock Code: 15333
First edition in English. Octavo, pp., 247. Publisher’s quince cloth with chocolate brown titles to spine. In the publisher’s black and white graphic dust-jacket. Translated from the Polish by Barbara Marszal and Frank Simpson. A very good copy. Corners and spine tips lightly bruised, and text block a touch toned. Contents clean, bright and free from any annotations. Dust-jacket toned to verso, with a touch of shelf-wear and creasing to edges. Lem’s critique of utopia and authoritarianism, originally published in Polish in 1961. An astronaut returns to earth after a 10 year mission to find that 120 years have passed, with humanity tamed by compulsory drug treatment. £40.00