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OPUS 100.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A collection of fiction and nonfiction selected from previously published books.
OPUS 100.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A collection of fiction and nonfiction selected from previously published books.
OPUS 300.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition.
PEBBLE IN THE SKY.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, jacket illustration by Richard Powers, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-15.
PEBBLE IN THE SKY.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1950. Octavo, jacket illustration by Richard Powers, Hardcover. First edition. Author's first book. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-15.
PEBBLE IN THE SKY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, jacket illustration by Richard Powers, cloth. First edition. The author's first SF novel. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-15.
PEBBLE IN THE SKY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, jacket art by Richard Powers, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Asimov in the year of publication: "For: Dave / Speaker / Regards, in / two installments / Isaac Asimov / 12/3/50." 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.
PEBBLE IN THE SKY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, jacket art by Richard Powers, cloth. First edition. The author's first SF novel (and first book). 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.
PRELUDE TO FOUNDATION.
New York: Doubleday, 1988. Octavo, imitation leather, all edges gilt. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Asimov. Prequel to the Foundation series. "Includes a description of a society presented as dystopian that is similar to a traditional religious commune." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
PRELUDE TO FOUNDATION.
New York: Doubleday, 1988. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition, first printing without "first edition" statement on copyright page. Prequel to the Foundation series. "Includes a description of a society presented as dystopian that is similar to a traditional religious commune." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
PUZZLES OF THE BLACK WIDOWERS.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1990. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The fifth collection of Black Widower tales which is a 'best of' from the previous volumes and two new stories previously uncollected.
ROBOT DREAMS: MASTERWORKS OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY...
NY: Berkley Books, [1986]. Octavo, illustrated by Ralph McQuarrie, cloth. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Asimov. Collection of the twenty-one robot stories all from previous collections with the exception of "Robot Dreams", first published here. Introduction by Asimov.
ROBOTS AND EMPIRE.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Sequel to ROBOTS OF DAWN and prequel to the Foundation books. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-52.
ROBOTS AND EMPIRE.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Sequel to ROBOTS OF DAWN and prequel to the Foundation books. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-52.
ROBOTS AND EMPIRE.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First trade edition. Robots re-negotiate the laws of robotics and set humankind on the road to galactic empire. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-52.
THE STARS LIKE DUST.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. Octavo, jacket illustration by Whitney Bender, cloth. First edition. Asimov's third sf book and second sf novel. Asimov's first three published novels are set earlier in the galactic empire future history of the Foundation stories, but have no direct connection with them. THE STARS, LIKE DUST is a space opera in which rebels fight the powerful war lords of Tyrann whose goal is the domination of the Galaxy.
THE UNION CLUB MYSTERIES.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1983. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed presentation inscription by Asimov on the title page to a mystery publisher and bookseller. Review slip laid in. Story collection.
A WHIFF OF DEATH.
New York: Walker and Company, [1968]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. First publication in hardcover of the author's first "straight" mystery novel, issued in paperback in 1958 as The Death Dealers.
THE WINDS OF CHANGE AND OTHER STORIES.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1983. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects twenty-one stories, all but two first published between 1976 and 1982. "Belief" and "Ideas Die Hard," both first published in the 1950s, somehow escaped publication in an earlier Asimov single-author story collection, so he included them here. The stories are "something of a return to Asimov's older style. Whimsical, clever, liberal, and the stories tend to feature absent-minded academics and to end with punch lines." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 423.
THE WINDS OF CHANGE.
Garden City: Doublday & Company, Inc., 1983. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Asimov on the title page. Collects twenty-one stories.
THE WINDS OF CHANGE.
Garden City: Doublday & Company, Inc., 1983. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Asimov on the title page. Collects twenty-one stories.
AYLMER VANCE: GHOST SEER. Introduction by Jack Adrian.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. The first volume in a series from Ash Tree (Occult Detectives Library). Collects eight occult detective stories, all first published in THE WEEKLY TALE-TELLER between 4 July 1914 and 22 August 1914, with introduction by editor Jack Adrian.
AYLMER VANCE: GHOST SEER. Introduction by Jack Adrian.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. The first volume in a series from Ash Tree (Occult Detectives Library). Collects eight occult detective stories, all first published in THE WEEKLY TALE-TELLER between 4 July 1914 and 22 August 1914, with introduction by editor Jack Adrian.
ANOTHER FINE MYTH...
Norfolk: Starblaze Editions, Donning, 1978. Octavo, illustrations by Kelly Freas, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. Amusing fantasy story involving magicians, demons, other dimensions and misadventures. The first in the series. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-13.
ANOTHER FINE MYTH.
Norfolk: Starblaze Editions, Donning, 1978. Octavo, illustrations by Kelly Freas, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Starblaze Editions SB 04. Trade paperback format. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-13.