[Rarebooks] (FS) Caresse begins, Lem finishes

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>Crosby (Caresse)  CROSSES OF GOLD. Nouvelle edition 
>augmente.  Paris: Albert Messein, 1925.   Pale blue boards, 
>parchment spine, 69pp, with the aquarelle frontispiece by 
>Daniel-Girard (replaced by photo in the UK issue).  Hinges tightened 
>a bit.  Fine in the original printed dw, which bears a review from 
>Poetry (London) Sept 1925 (surely of the first ed, shorter text, 
>issued in wrappers, 100 copies only).  Copyright: Harry Grew 
>Crosby.  The second Black Sun Press book so to speak.   A very very 
>difficult book in dw.   $750.00


>Lem (Stanislaw)   SOLARIS.  Warsaw: Wydawnnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony 
>Narodowej (!961)   Small 8vo, original off-white illustrated 
>wrappers, (197) pp; contents / ad leaf, with the half title.    Fine 
>copy in the priced dust jacket (illustrated)  /  cena zl 17.-.   One 
>of 10,000 ("Naklad") - "Wydanie I" (first printing).   "The most 
>widely read non-English science fiction writer in the 
>world."   Lem's novel was filmed by Russians in 1972 (Cannes special 
>prize; re-filmed by Soderbergh in 2002.   The first American edition 
>was published by Walker.  I can find no record of a holding of this 
>original in the West via OCLC, though some one must have it.    $3500.00



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