Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy

Overview:

• Title: Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy
• Author: Stanislaw Lem
• Year: 1982
• ISBN-10: 0151588562
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Price: $9.95
• Pages: 153
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Collection
• Title Reference: Let Us Save the Universe (An Open Letter from Ijon Tichy)
• Notes:
  • On the copyright page:
    • "First Edition" with printing line "BCDE" (so a 1st printing)
    • "Polish-language edition published by Czytelnik, Warsaw 1971"
    • "English translation copyright (c) 1982, 1981 by Stanislaw Lem"
    • "The following originally appeared in The New Yorker: 'The Eighteenth Voyage', 'The Twenty-fourth Voyage', 'The Washing Machine Tragedy', and 'Let Us Save the Universe'.
    • LCCN & ISBN
  • On title page: "Drawings by the Author", "Translated by Joel Stern and Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek", "A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book".
  • "Jacket design by Robert Dale" on jacket back flap.
  • Publication month and price from Locus #253 (February 1982.) (Front jacket flap of PV1 is price-clipped.)
  • "PUBLISHER'S NOTE" on un-numbered page between the copyright page and the title page: "The pieces in this book -- the two Voyages of Ijon Tichy, his reminiscences, his open letter -- all appeared in the 1971 Polish edition of Dzienniki gwiazdowe (The Star Diaries) but were not included in the British and American editions titled The Star Diaries and published in 1976. The present book, in effect, constitutes the second volume of Lem's work of that name."