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. Tan strips to front and rear end papers, damp stain to upper front and rear end papers and paste downs, and upper edges of the first few leafs, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with rubbing and mild shelf wear to the corner tips, folds and spine ends, damp stain to the verso at the upper spine and upper flaps with bleed through at flaps and rear panel next to spine fold, tape reinforcement to verso of spine ends. (27947). Item #27947
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