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THE HUGO WINNERS: VOLUME 4 [1976-1979].
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.
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THE HUGO WINNERS: VOLUME 4 [1976-1979].
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collect 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.
FOUR FUTURES: FOUR ORIGINAL NOVELLAS OF SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., [1971]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anthology of four stories based on themes suggested by Isaac Asimov.
NORBY AND THE INVADERS.
New York: Walker and Company, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The fourth Norby book.
NORBY AND THE LOST PRINCESS.
New York: Walker and Company, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The third Norby book.
THE 13 CRIMES OF SCIENCE FICTION.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Anthology of mystery/science fiction tales.
LUCKY STARR AND THE RINGS OF SATURN.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1958. Octavo, boards. First edition. The last Lucky Starr juvenile series. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-55.
ASIMOV'S MYSTERIES.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects 13 science fiction mystery stories.
ASIMOV'S SHERLOCKIAN LIMERICKS.
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.
BANQUETS OF THE BLACK WIDOWERS.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1984. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Asimov to a mystery publisher and bookseller. Review slip and publishers promo flyer laid in. The fourth collection of Black Widower stories.
THE CAVES OF STEEL.
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.
THE CURRENTS OF SPACE.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. Octavo, jacket illustration by George Guisti, boards. First edition. "... an effective standalone blend of mystery and adventure on a world where unspecified disaster has been foretold by a highly specialist expert now lost to amnesia." - John Clute / Malcolm J. Edwards, SFE (online). "Minor early Asimov set against the interstellar background of the Trantorian Empire (about to become the galactic empire of the 'Foundation' series). A complex adventure with an anti-racist theme." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 83.
THE EARLY ASIMOV OR, ELEVEN YEARS OF TRYING.
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.
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.
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.
FOUNDATION AND EARTH.
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.
FOUNDATION AND EARTH.
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.
FOUNDATION AND EARTH.
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.
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FOUNDATION [with] FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE [with] SECOND FOUNDATION.
New York: Gnome Press Publishers, later Gnome Press, Inc., [1951-1953]. Octavo, three volumes, first volume bound in cloth, others in boards. First editions, first printings, bindings, and dust jackets where required. The first three volumes of the Foundation 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.
[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.
[Binghamton]: Whispers Press, 1982. Octavo, leather-backed linen. First 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.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1953. Octavo, Hardcover. First British edition. First book in the Foundation series.
THE GODS THEMSELVES.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "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.
THE GODS THEMSELVES.
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.