Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects thirteen stories. Roger Zelazny, Larry Niven, Fritz Leiber, James Tiptree, Jr., Isaac Asimov, Joe Haldeman, Spider and Jean Robinson, Joan D. Vinge, Harlan Ellison, John Varley, Poul Anderson and C.J. Cherryh.  Item #3901

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., [1971]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anthology of four stories based on themes suggested by Isaac Asimov.  Item #8839

New York: Walker and Company, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The third Norby book.  Item #17727

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1958. Octavo, boards. First edition. The last Lucky Starr juvenile series. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-55.  Item #14024

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1978. Small octavo, illustrated by Gahan Wilson, cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author and the artist. Sixty limericks, one for each of the sixty tales of the Sherlockian canon.  Item #13585

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. Octavo, jacket illustration by Ruth Ray, boards. First edition. The first of the Robot novels. "A richly characterized, thoughtfully told story; justifiably a favorite among Asimov's readers." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-10.  Item #12445

Garden City, NY: Doublday & Company, Inc., 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Asimov on the title page. Collects twenty-seven stories (1939-1949) with autobiographical commentary by Asimov. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-45.  Item #22911

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.  Item #17585

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1986. Octavo, full brown leather, all edges gilt. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Asimov. "The space travelers from FOUNDATION'S EDGE journey from the sentient world of Gaia to Earth via various ancient planets familiar to readers of Asimov's "Robot" stories. More bloated, talky stuff for readers who are well steeped in the author's earlier works." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 143. Includes a continuation of the utopia in FOUNDATION'S EDGE and some dystopia.  Item #16895

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1986. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Asimov on the title page. Review slip and promotional letter laid in. "The space travelers from FOUNDATION'S EDGE journey from the sentient world of Gaia to Earth via various ancient planets familiar to readers of Asimov's "Robot" stories. More bloated, talky stuff for readers who are well steeped in the author's earlier works." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 143.  Item #22913

[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.  Item #16894

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1953. Octavo, Hardcover. First British edition. First book in the Foundation series.  Item #7771

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Asimov on a tipped in leaf inserted after the front free endpaper. "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.  Item #16898