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THE END OF ETERNITY.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1955. Octavo, illustrated by Mel Hunter, cloth. First edition. Eternals police human history against disasters, making history safe for mankind. "Time guardians rove through the centuries, keeping all eras in harmony. The hero rebels, preferring the uncertainties of infinity to the carefully controlled boredom of Eternity." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 120. "... a complex, thoughtful story of time travel, time paradoxes and time police, considered by some critics to be his best work." - John Clute / Malcolm J. Edwards, SFE (online). "Perhaps Asimov's best early novel..." Barron (ed.): Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-18.
THE END OF ETERNITY.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1955. Octavo, illustrated by Mel Hunter, cloth. First edition. Eternals police human history against disasters, making history safe for mankind. "Time guardians rove through the centuries, keeping all eras in harmony. The hero rebels, preferring the uncertainties of infinity to the carefully controlled boredom of Eternity." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 120. "... a complex, thoughtful story of time travel, time paradoxes and time police, considered by some critics to be his best work." - John Clute / Malcolm J. Edwards, SFE (online). "Perhaps Asimov's best early novel..." Barron (ed.): Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-18.
THE END OF ETERNITY.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1955. Octavo, jacket illustration by Mel Hunter, cloth. First edition. Eternals police human history against disasters, making history safe for mankind. "Time guardians rove through the centuries, keeping all eras in harmony. The hero rebels, preferring the uncertainties of infinity to the carefully controlled boredom of Eternity." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 120. "... a complex, thoughtful story of time travel, time paradoxes and time police, considered by some critics to be his best work." - John Clute / Malcolm J. Edwards, SFE (online). "Perhaps Asimov's best early novel..." Barron (ed.): Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-18.
FANTASTIC VOYAGE.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Nebula nominee for 1966. Filmed in 1966 by Richard Fleischer with Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, and Donald Pleasance. This is a novelization of the screenplay. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 3-43.
THE FOUNDATION TRILOGY: THREE CLASSICS OF SCIENCE FICTION... FOUNDATION, FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE, SECOND FOUNDATION.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., n.d., [1963, i.e. 1969]. Octavo, original gray boards, spine stamped in red, top page edge stained red. Science Fiction Book club edition, later printing, code 33K on page 221. Omnibus edition of the first three novels. Basis for the Apple TV+ series. Awarded a special Hugo in 1966 for best all-time series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-46. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 819-31.
FOUNDATION'S EDGE.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1982. Octavo, boards. First edition, first printing with code "M36" on page 365. Fourth novel in the Foundation series. "A belated sequel to the 'Foundation Trilogy,' marking Asimov's return to his distinctive brand of cerebral space opera after more than twenty years. In this yarn (and the related novels THE ROBOTS OF DAWN, ROBOTS AND EMPIRE, FOUNDATION AND EARTH and PRELUDE TO FOUNDATION) Asimov explains the galactic history of THE STARS LIKE DUST and the "Foundation" series as a plot by the robots (from the otherwise unconnected 'Robot' stories) to ensure the survival and happiness of the human race, and hints that the history-altering time travelers of THE END OF ETERNITY set up the whole thing." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 143. Winner of the 1983 Hugo award. 1982 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-47. Sargent, British and American Literature, 1516-1985, p. 410.
FOUNDATION'S EDGE.
[Binghamton]: Whispers Press, 1982. Octavo, leather-backed linen. Limited edition. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by Asimov and publisher Stuart Schiff, this is copy #799). "A belated sequel to the 'Foundation Trilogy,' marking Asimov's return to his distinctive brand of cerebral space opera after more than twenty years. In this yarn (and the related novels THE ROBOTS OF DAWN, ROBOTS AND EMPIRE, FOUNDATION AND EARTH and PRELUDE TO FOUNDATION) Asimov explains the galactic history of THE STARS LIKE DUST and the "Foundation" series as a plot by the robots (from the otherwise unconnected 'Robot' stories) to ensure the survival and happiness of the human race, and hints that the history-altering time travelers of THE END OF ETERNITY set up the whole thing." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 143. Winner of the 1983 Hugo award. 1982 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-47. Sargent, British and American Literature, 1516-1985, p. 410.
FOUNDATION'S EDGE.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1982. Octavo, boards. First edition, first printing with code "M36" on page 365. Fourth novel of the Foundation series. Winner of the 1983 Hugo award. 1982 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-47. Sargent, British and American Literature, 1516-1985, p. 410.
FOUNDATION.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1953. Octavo, Hardcover. First British edition. First book in the Foundation series.
FOUNDATION.
New York: Gnome Press, Publishers, [1951]. Octavo, jacket painting by David Kyle, cloth. First edition, first binding. The first volume in the Foundation series, awarded a special Hugo award in 1966 for best all-time series. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-12. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 819-31.
THE GODS THEMSELVES.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Asimov on the front free end paper. "In the twenty-second century, Earth and men of a para-universe establish an ideal energy exchange. Through Earthmen's electron pump and the para-men's position pump, the energy needs of both worlds are satisfied without energy loss to either. A few probing skeptics, men and para-men, learn that in time the exchange will explode our Sun, but both scientific establishments ignore their alarm. The 'fathers' of the energy pumps, puffed with pride and selfishness, will not allow their reputation, doctrine, and achievement to be jeopardized ... The blind egotism and leaden conscience of his [Asimov's] scientific establishments offer no promise that a world ruled by scientists rather than politicians would be more free of it." - Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, p. 130. THE GODS THEMSELVES ... which was only the second genuine singleton of his career and which won both Hugo and Nebula awards, proved to be his finest single creation, a complex tale involving potentially catastrophic energy transfers between alternate universes and -- rarely for him -- intriguing alien beings (they are considerably more interesting than the humans in the cast)." - John Clute / Malcolm J. Edwards, SFE (online). Written with a verve and economy that are missing from Asimov's later novels." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-48. Winner of the 1972 Nebula award and 1973 Hugo award for best novel. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 909-14.
GOLD: THE FINAL SCIENCE FICTION COLLECTION.
[New York]: HarperPrism, [1995]. black cloth stamcloth backed boards.ped in gold and blind. First edition. Part of the limited issue comprising 1226 numbered copies, this being number 394. Collects fifteen short stories, eighteen essays, and twenty articles on writing science fiction.
GOLD: THE FINAL SCIENCE FICTION COLLECTION.
[New York]: HarperPrism, [1995]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects fifteen short stories, eighteen essays, and twenty articles on writing science fiction.
GOOD TASTE.
[Topeka, KS: Apocalypse Press, 1976]. Octavo, decorated wrappers, sewn. A chapbook. First edition. Limited to 1012 copies of which this is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Asimov.
GOOD TASTE.
[Topeka, KS: Apocalypse Press, 1976]. Octavo, decorated wrappers, sewn. First edition. Limited to 1012 copies of which this is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Asimov. A chapbook. Short story.
I, ROBOT.
[New York]: A Signet Book Published by The New American Library, [1956]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Signet S1282. Influential collection of short fiction about robots with first postulation of the "Three Laws of Robotics," a concept used for plots in numerous tales by other writers in subsequent years.
I. ASIMOV: A MEMOIR.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, [1994]. Octavo, illustrations, cloth backed boards. First edition. Winner of 1995 Hugo Award for best nonfiction book.
I. ASIMOV: A MEMOIR.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, [1994]. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii-ix [x-xi] xii [xiii-xiv] [1] 2-562, illustrations, cloth-backed boards. 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.
IN MEMORY YET GREEN [and] IN JOY STILL FELT...
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979-1980. Octavo, two volumes; pp. [i-v] vi-vii [viii-xii] [1-3] 4-732; [i-v] vi [vii] viii-x [xi-xii] [1-3] 4-828, cloth. First editions. Massive autobiography through 1978.
THE MARTIAN WAY AND OTHER STORIES.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Company, Inc., 1955. Octavo, boards. First edition. Asimov's first collection of short fiction. Collects "The Martian Way," "Youth," a first contact story, "The Deep," an amusing Earth invaded by aliens satire, and "Sucker Bait," all written between 1952 and 1954. "Good traditional SF of the period." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-21. Most of the best of his short stories ... were initially assembled in a series of impressive volumes, including THE MARTIAN WAY AND OTHER STORIES (1955), EARTH IS ROOM ENOUGH: SCIENCE FICTION TALES OF OUR OWN PLANET (1957) and NINE TOMORROWS: TALES OF THE NEAR FUTURE (1959). Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-21.
MURDER AT THE ABA ...
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. cloth-backed boards. First edition.
MURDER AT THE ABA: A PUZZLE IN FOUR DAYS AND SIXTY SCENES.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Mystery.
THE NAKED SUN.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Octavo, jacket illustration by Ruth Ray, cloth. First edition. The second novel featuring detective Elijah Bailey and his robot partner R. Daneel Olivaw by "the writer who virtually invented the science fiction mystery. In his novels THE CAVES OF STEEL (1954) and THE NAKED SUN (1957) and in the stories collected as ASIMOV'S MYSTERIES (1968), he masterfully bridged the gap between the two genres and proved that genuine detective fiction could be set in the future as well as in the present or past." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, p. 29. The human/robot detective team solve another murder, this one committed on Solaris, an Outer World with a robot-run economy, where the twenty thousand Solarians, thinly spread out over the surface of the planet, live in near total isolation from each other, and the presence or touch of another Solarian produces incapacitating physical repugnance. Bailey, from an underground Earth city, must overcome his fear of open spaces to solve the crime. "In its setting, it's a sort of inversion of THE CAVES OF STEEL, and it's equally cleverly plotted." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [249]. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-42. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1476-9.
NEMESIS.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, [1989]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The solar system is imperiled by an approaching star and about a conspiracy to conceal a threat to our solar system. "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.
NIGHTFALL AND OTHER STORIES.
Garden City, NY: Doublday & Company, Inc., 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Includes the title story and nineteen others. Asimov provides an introduction to each story. "Nightfall" is one of the classic stories of Science Fiction, "his most famous story and probably the single most famous US sf story of all time." - John Clute and Malcolm Edwards, SFE (online). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-50.