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Imaginary Magnitude
by Lem, Stanislaw
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0151441189
- ISBN 13
- 9780151441181
- Seller
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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
New Yok: Harcourt Brace Javonovich, 1984 8vo. original black cloth backed boards (slight nicking at tail edge FFE, else clean & crisp throughout) in dustwrapper priced $15.95 (a trifle rubbed & nicked); pp. viii (last blank), 122. Publisher's 'Review Copy' slip, loosely enclosed. A fine copy. . First English. Hard Cover. F/F.
Synopsis
These wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first-century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create "pornograms," and analyzing computer-generated literature through the science of "bitistics." "Lem, a science fiction Bach, plays in this book a googleplex of variations on his basic themes" (New York Times Book Review). Translated by Marc E. Heine. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 030763
- Title
- Imaginary Magnitude
- Author
- Lem, Stanislaw
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F
- Jacket Condition
- F
- Edition
- First English
- ISBN 10
- 0151441189
- ISBN 13
- 9780151441181
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Javonovich
- Place of Publication
- New Yok
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Stanislaw Lem Imaginary Magnitude Science Fiction Poland
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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Castlemaine, Victoria
About Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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- Cloth
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- Tail
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- Dustwrapper
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- Fine
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- Crisp
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