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FOUNDATION'S EDGE.
Edition: 3rd printing, UK edition.
London: Granada, (1983) dj. Hardcover - Fourth novel in the Foundation series, written many years after the original trilogy to both acclaim (it won the 1983 Hugo award and was a finalist for the Nebula) and to popularity, the first of Asimov's many books to land on the NY Times best seller list. Author's afterword. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-246120126.
Condition: Very good in a good only dust jacket (some spine slant, usual toning to pages, long tape-repaired tear on front cover of dj)
Book ID: 79905More details Price: $16.50 -
FOUNDATION'S EDGE.
Edition: Book club edition.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, (1982.) dj. Hardcover - Fourth novel in the Foundation series. 366 pp plus an author's afterword. ISBN: 0-385-177259.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket. (minor edgewear to dj,)
Book ID: 44556More details Price: $12.50 -
OPUS 100
Edition: First edition
Boston Houghton Mifflin 1969 dj. Hardcover first edition - A guided tour through the first 99 books of America's foremost science writer. Listing of the books at the end. 318 pages.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (slighty humorous gift inscription dated Christmas 1969 on front endpaper and an inked note on front flap of dj - otherwise a tight and clean copy)
Book ID: 28930More details Price: $16.00 -
ASIMOV'S SHERLOCKIAN LIMERICKS.
Edition: Limited, signed first edition.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1978) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Asimov's fourth collection of limericks and "the first to be entirely respectable." Contains 60 limericks, one for each of the Sherlock Holems canonical tales. Illustrated with a full color frontispiece by Gahan Wilson. #136 of 250 copies signed by Asimov and illustrator Gahan Wilson 60 pp plus author information and the limitation page. ISBN: 0-89296040X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket in a fine slipcase.
Book ID: 70829More details Price: $250.00 -
THE EARLY ASIMOV, OR ELEVEN YEARS OF TRYING.
Edition: First book club edition.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, (1972) dj. Hardcover - A collection of 27 of Asimov's early stories, each prefaced by Asimov's often amusing biographical details about how and when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluations of it. Appendix with a list of 60 short stories published during the Campbell years. vii, 568 pp. Code of M35 indicating that this was published in 1971, probably preceding the trade edition. Rather uncommon in any Doubleday printing.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67083More details Price: $21.50 -
FANTASTIC VOYAGE II: DESTINATION BRAIN.
Edition: First trade edition.
New York: Doubleday, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which is both a suspenseful novel, set in the 21st century, and a realistic depiction of the brain, as a team of scientists are miniaturized in an attempt to find a secret hidden deep inside a dying Soviet scientist's brain. 332 pp. ISBN: 0-385-239262.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (overall edgewear to dj, small spot on front cover from sticker removal) .
Book ID: 79945More details Price: $15.00 -
FANTASTIC VOYAGE II: DESTINATION BRAIN.
Edition: First trade edition.
New York: Doubleday, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which is both a suspenseful novel, set in the 21st century, and a realistic depiction of the brain, as a team of scientists are miniaturized in an attempt to find a secret hidden deep inside a dying Soviet scientist's brain. 332 pp. ISBN: 0-385-239262.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some toning to the pages)
Book ID: 80087More details Price: $19.50 -
GALAXIES.
Edition: First printing.
Chicago: Follett Publishing Co., 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - A Follett Beginning Science book. A simple explanation for children, illustrated in full color. 32 pages. Bound in illustrated boards.
Condition: Near fine condition (some wear to the top of the spine), no dj.
Book ID: 31638More details Price: $20.00 -
BUY JUPITER AND OTHER STORIES.
Edition: Early book club edition.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, (1975.) dj. Hardcover - A collection of infrequently anthologized stories, each with comments by Asimov. 206 pp. Dust jacket by Michael Flanagan. ISBN: 0-385-050771.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 49943More details Price: $12.50 -
THE NAKED SUN.
Edition: Paperback.
New York: Fawcett Crest, (1972.). The second of the 'robot novels' featuring plain clothes detective Elijah Bailey, who is investigating a murder on Solario with the assistance of an advanced and complex robot, R. Daneel Olivaw.
Condition: Very good condition (tight, straight copy, minor creasing to spine).
Book ID: 37257More details Price: $10.00 -
THE WINDS OF CHANGE and Other Stories.
Edition: Book club edition.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 22 short stories with an introduction by Asimov to each story. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-385-180993.
Condition: Fine in a very good dustjacket (sunning to spine of dj, short closed tear to rear cover of dj).
Book ID: 73917More details Price: $30.00 -
THE PLANET THAT WASN'T.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - His 12th collection of essays - a combination of random thoughts, speculations, arguments and notions, on astronomy, chemistry, biology, the future of man, the non-existent canals on Mars, ozone and freon, Isaac Newton and rainbows and much more - originally published in magazine format between 1974 and 1976. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-385-11687X.
Condition: Very good- in a good only dust jacket (some underlining - most in pencil - and random notations, dj has edgewear, loss of about 1 cm at top of spine, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 68745More details Price: $18.00 -
ISAAC ASIMOV'S BOOK OF FACTS.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Bell Publishing Co., (1981.) 504pp dj. Hardcover - "3000 of the most interesting, entertaining, fascinating, unbelievable unusual and fantastic facts". Topics range from kings and queen's to sports, birds, women's rights, words and much more. 504 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 38981More details Price: $15.00 -
GALAXIES.
Edition: 3rd printing.
Chicago: Follett Publishing Co., 1968. A Follett Beginning Science book. A simple explanation for children, illustrated in full color. 32 pages. Bound in illustrated boards.
Condition: very good condition overall (prev owner's name, and light wear to edges of boards, overall .)
Book ID: 13358More details Price: $12.00 -
ROBOTS OF DAWN.
Edition: First trade edition.
New York Doubleday 1983 dj. Hardcover first edition - 1984 Hugo nominee. 419pp. ISBN: 0-385-18400x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (very light remainder spray, little rubbing and wear to dj.)
Book ID: 15107More details Price: $28.00 -
FOUNDATION'S EDGE.
Edition: First edition, stated on copyright page.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth novel in the Foundation series, written many years after the original trilogy to both acclaim (it won the 1983 Hugo award and was a finalist for the Nebula) and to popularity, the first of Asimov's many books to land on the NY Times best seller list. Code M39 on p 365. . ISBN: 0-385-177259.
Condition: Just about fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)
Book ID: 89143More details Price: $21.50 -
AZAZEL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday Foundation, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 18 of Isaac Asimov's fantasy stories, with an introduction by Asimov. xiii, 221 pp. Dust jacket art by Robert Goldstrom. ISBN: 0-38524410X.
Condition: Ex-library with relatively few markings (peeling to endpapers under flaps), overall tight and clean in a fine and unmarked dj.
Book ID: 88114More details Price: $16.50 -
FACT AND FANCY.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962. dj. Hardcover first edition - An uncommon title of Asimov - Seventeen speculative essays on the possibilities of science - divided into sections on the earth, the solar system, the universe and the human mind. 263 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, some spine slant in a near fine unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 88115More details Price: $40.00 -
THE PLANET THAT WASN'T.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - His 12th collection of essays - a combination of random thoughts, speculations, arguments and notions, on astronomy, chemistry, biology, the future of man, the non-existent canals on Mars, ozone and freon, Isaac Newton and rainbows and much more - originally published in magazine format between 1974 and 1976. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-385-11687X.
Condition: Very good- in a good only dust jacket (some underlining - most in pencil - and random notations, dj has edgewear, loss of about 1 cm at top of spine, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 33399More details Price: $18.00 -
ASIMOV'S MYSTERIES.
Edition: Early printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, (1968) dj. Hardcover - A collection of thirteen of his short science fiction mysteries together with an overall introduction and brief comments on each story. 240 pp. Dust jacket art by James McMullan.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but a tight copy in a very good dj (spine label, original price of $5.95) .
Book ID: 83989More details Price: $13.50 -
CHANGE! 71 Glimpses of the Future.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 71 brief and very readable essays - which originally appeared as columns in the in-flight magazine of American Airlines. ISBN: 0-395-31545x.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine silver dustjacket (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 31754More details Price: $16.00 -
MORE . . . WOULD YOU BELIEVE?
Edition: Large format hardcover.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1982. Hardcover - More unknown, amazing and even almost incredible facts, written for children, humorously illustrated with duotone drawings by Pat Schories. ISBN: 0-448-044722.
Condition: Very good in illustrated boards.
Book ID: 23011More details Price: $18.00 -
ROBOTS OF DAWN.
Edition: First trade edition.
New York Doubleday 1983 dj. Hardcover first edition - 1984 Hugo nominee. 419pp. ISBN: 0-385-18400x.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket with a little wear to spine ends
Book ID: 15106More details Price: $32.00 -
ROBOTS AND EMPIRE.
Edition: First edition.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to The Robots of Dawn (set two hundred years later), a novel which interweaves all three of Asimov's classic series: Robot, Foundation, and Empire.383 pp. ISBN: 0 - 3 8 5 - 1 9 0 9 21 1.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (remainder spray to bottom edge, slight spine slant.)
Book ID: 77758More details Price: $18.00 -
PEBBLE IN THE SKY.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950. dj. Hardcover first edition - Asimov's first published novel - the first of many! An accident in a research facility, sent Joseph Schwartz to a far future earth, still inhabited but the people of Earth are outcasts, because their tiny world is radioactive. Classic science fiction combining both time travel and post-apocalyptic themes. 223 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket A short closed tear to the base of the spine affecting both the book and the dj (dj has tape repair to interior), some other minor rubbing and wear mostly to the folds of the dj and the ends of the spine)
Book ID: 65181More details Price: $600.00 -
FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE.
Edition: Paperback.
New York: Bantam, 1991. The 3rd novel in the series which won the Hugo award for the best all time science fiction series. ISBN: 0-553-293370.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 26924More details Price: $10.00 -
ROBOTS OF DAWN.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York Doubleday (1983). dj. Hardcover - The 1984 Hugo nominee. 408 pp. ISBN: 0-385-18400x.
Condition: Near fine in a very good- dust jacket (corner flap clipped, some discoloration to interior of dj.)
Book ID: 32909More details Price: $12.50 -
ASIMOV'S THE ROCKY PLANETS.
Edition: First thus.
New York: Modern Publishing, Division of Unisystems, (1994). Hardcover first edition - An omnibus edition which includes several books for older children originally published separately: Our Solar System,, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Illustrated throughout with both full color and black and white paintings, drawings and photographs. Fact files about each planet. Glossary, index. Oversized format. 157 pp. ISBN: 1-561444278.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated boards.
Book ID: 74714More details Price: $16.50 -
I. ASIMOV: A Memoir.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, 1994. First edition - Published posthumously, this third of Asimov's autobiographical works looks at events over his entire life and how they influenced his writings and thoughts. A more reflective book than his earlier chronological ones. Includes an epilogue by his wife, Janet Asimov. 552 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed blue wrappers.
Book ID: 32086More details Price: $40.00 -
IN MEMORY YET GREEN. The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920-1954.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first autobiography by this prolific science fiction writer, who was also a child prodigy and a renowned professor. This covers his childhood, education and early years as a writer. Photographs, index. 732 pp. ISBN: 0-385-13679x.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket (binding tight and straight, dj is price clipped, has some light creasing to upper edge, few very small nicks at top of spine - better condition than this this book is usually found.)
Book ID: 54269More details Price: $60.00
