Solaris

Polish original: Wydawnictwo MON (Warsaw, 1961). The first edition in any other language is the French (1964); the first English is Walker and Company (New York, 1970), catalogued by ABAA dealers as "first edition in English, first printing" — publisher's white cloth lettered in black, 216 pp, jacket designed by Lena Fong Hor with illustration by Jack Gaughan, priced jacket / price present at the flap on an unclipped example. That translation, by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox, was made not from the Polish but from the French, a fact Lem objected to publicly for the rest of his life. The UK first is Faber and Faber (London, 1971), reprinting the same Kilmartin-Cox text — a first thus, and it follows Walker by a year. Both the 1961 MON Polish and the 1970 Walker English are separately collected.