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Isaac Asimov. Four Works, including:... (Total: 4 Items)
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Isaac Asimov. Four Works, including: Foundation: Three Classics of Science Fiction. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1963]. Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Octavo. 4, 227; viii, 227; vi, 225 pages. Publisher's gray covers with the spine lettered in red. Black illustrated dust jacket. Top edge red. Very light discolored spots on the back cover, minor rubbing to the jacket, sunned jacket spine. Altogether a very good copy. This work combines Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation, three eminently significant works by the influential science fiction author Isaac Asimov. [and:] The Key Word and Other Mysteries. Illustrated by Rod Burke. [New York]: An Avon Camelot Book, [1977]. Third Printing. Ex-library copy. Small octavo. 54 pages. [4, publisher's ads at the rear]. Several illustrations throughout the text. Publisher's purple wrappers with an illustration on the front cover. Some rubbing to the covers, a star illustrated in marker on the front cover, library stamp on the front inside cover, very slight curling to the corners. Altogether a good copy. [and:] Pebble in the Sky. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo. 223 pages. Publisher's dark blue boards with the spine lettered in light green. Illustrated dust jacket. Faint green top edge. Some very minor rubbing to the covers and jacket, slightly sunned spine. Altogether a very good copy. This work set in the far distant future, Galactic Era 827 to be exact, was Asimov's first published novel and is part of the Galactic Empire Series. [and:] The Gods Themselves. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Octavo. 288 pages. Publisher's bright yellow boards with the lettering on the spine outlined in a green block. Dust jacket with multicolored lettering on a white background designed by David November. Some rubbing to the jacket, sunned jacket spine. Altogether a very good copy. A highly regarded work, it won the Nebula Award in 1972 and the Hugo Award in 1973. The work originally appeared in Galaxy magazine in March and May of 1972 and in If magazine in April of 1972.Auction Info
2008 June Grand Format Books & Manuscripts Auction #683 (go to Auction Home page)
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