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1994110755New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Doubleday 1994. Octavo printed blue wrappers. Advance copy uncorrected proof of the first edition. Winner of 1995 Hugo Award for best nonfiction book. Published posthumously with an epilogue by his wife and a checklist of Asimov's books. Slight spine lean else a fine copy. A very nice copy of the bulky uncommon proof. #110755 Doubleday unknown books
1979163952Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1979. Octavo pp. i-v vi-vii viii-xii 1-3 4-732 cloth. First edition. A presentation copy with brief signed inscription by Asimov to "Dave" David G. Hartwell dated 5 July 1980 on the titile page. First volume of Asimov's autobiography published as his 200th book along with OPUS 200. A fine copy in fine dust jacket save for a bit of dust soiling to rear panel. #163952 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1979270416Garden City: Doubleday 1979. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. Illus. 732pp. thick 8vo cloth d.w. Garden City: Doubleday 1979. First Edition.<br/><br/> Doubleday unknown books
196063006NY:: Basic Books. Very Good. 1960. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. Volume One: The Physical Sciences. Volume Two: The Biological Sciences. 219 illustrations. First edition. Previous owner's book-plate on each front paste-down faded along the spines else both volumes are very good in blue cloth. No dust jackets as issued. Housed in a very good minor shelf wear slipcase. ; 853 pages . Basic Books, hardcover books
2000UASIISA00HMRiBooks 2000. Very Good. Asimov Isaac. Isaac Asimov's Robot City 2. New York: iBooks 2000. 383pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed edges. iBooks paperback books
197247769NY: Avon 1972. Mass market paperback. Very Good. Fourth printing. 365pp index. Wraps a bit edgeworn with a light crease to the front else very good. <br/><br/> Avon paperback books
1988139541Rochester MI: The Pretentious Press 1988. Octavo pp. 1-4 not paginated two photographic prints tipped in on page 1 printed wrappers stapled. First edition. Limited to 126 copies of which this is one of 100 copies signed by Asimov "freely distributed." Reprints Asimov's first publication an article published in the Spring 1934 issue of BOYS HIGH RECORDER his high school literary magazine. A fine copy. #139541 The Pretentious Press unknown books
19768563New York: Doubleday 1976. cloth-backed boards dust jacket. Detective Fiction. 8vo. cloth-backed boards dust jacket. viii 230 pages. Book Club Edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Doubleday unknown books
1976139125Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1976. cloth-backed boards. First edition. Publisher's "compliments" stamp on front paste-down. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with light wear at edges and internal tanning to spine panel. #139125 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1976125997Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1976. cloth-backed boards. First edition. A near fine copy in very good plus dust jacket with rubbing to edges mainly to corners and spine ends. #125997 Doubleday & Company unknown books
197672661Garden City:: Doubleday & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. B001J3CJGK . Book club edition. Very good in a very good minor edge wear dust jacket. . Doubleday & Company, hardcover books
19892310895New York: Doubleday 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Edges lightly foxed. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. A death star called Nemesis is wrongly believed to be the last great hope for survival of mankind in a novel of high adventure set in the first new universe created by the author in over a decade. Doubleday hardcover books
1989146177New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Doubleday 1989. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition. SF novel about a conspiracy to conceal a threat to our solar system which is imperiled by an approaching star. "The action alternates between a young girl growing up on Rotor a space habitat which has traveled to a red dwarf star that is approaching the solar system and her father on Earth who is involved in a project to build a starship." - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition 1995 p. 251. Mild rub to cloth on front cover else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. #146177 Doubleday unknown books
198991585New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Doubleday 1989. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition. SF novel about a conspiracy to conceal a threat to our solar system which is imperiled by an approaching star. "The action alternates between a young girl growing up on Rotor a space habitat which has traveled to a red dwarf star that is approaching the solar system and her father on Earth who is involved in a project to build a starship." - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition 1995 p. 251. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #91585 Doubleday unknown books
198910676New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Doubleday 1989. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition. SF novel about a conspiracy to conceal a threat to our solar system which is imperiled by an approaching star. "The action alternates between a young girl growing up on Rotor a space habitat which has traveled to a red dwarf star that is approaching the solar system and her father on Earth who is involved in a project to build a starship." - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition 1995 p. 251. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #10676 Doubleday unknown books
1970193649Fawcett Publications 1970-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 1970 edition. Clean has a good binding and crisp pages no marks or notations. Light overall age toning and wear. MM HS Fawcett Publications paperback books
1959129312Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1959. Octavo cloth. First edition. Collects two verse satires and nine stories including several classics; "The Dying Night" "The Last Question" and "The Ugly Little Boy." Also present here is "Profession" in which "imprinting knowledge directly into the brain leads to an uncreative society." - Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 pp. 264-5. "All the Troubles of the World" features MULTIVAC a giant computer which directs Earth's economy and is the central clearing house of all known facts about each individual inhabitant of the planet. Ultimately it grows "so complicated its reactions are no longer those of a machine but those of a living thing" and what it wants more than anything else is "to die." See Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-50. Hairline crack along front inner hinge a common problem with Doubleday books with pad-bound signatures glued into board cases else a fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with some rubbing along folds and top edge and small chip from lower edge of rear panel. #129312 Doubleday & Company unknown books
196973082Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1969. Octavo cloth. First edition. A collection of fiction and nonfiction selected from previously published books. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with touch of wear at head and tail of spine panel and several corner tips and light dust soiling to rear panel. #73082 Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
1984126235Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1984. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition. Asimov's 300th book containing a cross section of his writings: science mystery science fiction the humanities and autobiography. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with mild rubbing to spine ends and along bottom edges and tiny closed tears at upper edge of front panel and bottom edge of rear panel. #126235 Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
197564204Boston:: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0395202833 . First printing. Very good in a good large chip at the crown of the spine minor edge wear faded along the spine damp marks on verso dust jacket. ; 278 pages . Houghton Mifflin, hardcover books
1950158275Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1950. Octavo cloth. First edition. The author's first book and first SF novel. In the far future "Earth is largely a radioactive wasteland populated by a few million inhabitants who are discriminated against by the rest of the galactic empire which has forgotten that Earth was humanity's original home." - Brians Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction 1895-1984 p. 122. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-51. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 237. In 333. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with wear at spine ends and corner tips short closed tears with associated wrinkles at top and bottom edges of front panel and clipped price. #158275 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1950155200Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1950. Octavo cloth. First edition. The author's first book and first SF novel. In the far future "Earth is largely a radioactive wasteland populated by a few million inhabitants who are discriminated against by the rest of the galactic empire which has forgotten that Earth was humanity's original home." - Brians Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction 1895-1984 p. 122. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-51. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 237. In 333. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to upper right corner tip and two small closed tears 6 mm at the bottom edge of the front panel and 8 mm at lower spine end. #155200 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1951005444New York: Doubleday 1951. Later Printing 1951 title page 1950 copyright page. Price of $2.50 front flap. His 1st book. Very Good small tear to cloth bottom edge of spine slight spine lean in a Good dust jacket large chip at head of spine affecting title smaller chips at base of spine and edges of rear panel. The same dust jacket art as the First Edition. NOT the Young Moderns edition nor a Book Club most likely a 2nd printing of the First Edition. . Later Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Doubleday Hardcover books
1950140905086New York: Doubleday 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with price intact. Light edge wear to cloth. The dust jacket shows rubbing toning edge wear with chipping and a bit of loss to the top end of the spine and top edge of the rear panel. A nice copy. Doubleday hardcover books
1950150093Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1950. Octavo cloth. First edition. The author's first book and first SF novel. In the far future "Earth is largely a radioactive wasteland populated by a few million inhabitants who are discriminated against by the rest of the galactic empire which has forgotten that Earth was humanity's original home." - Brians Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction 1895-1984 p. 122. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-51. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 237. In 333. A fine copy in good dust jacket with wear at edges some rubbing to along folds and to front panel some tanning mostly internal but with some show through on rear panel and dust soiling to rear panel. #150093 Doubleday & Company unknown books