Foundation
New York: Doubleday, 1963.
First Doubleday edition. 255 [1] pp. 8vo. Quarter black cloth over gray cloth boards, spine lettered in white. Dust jacket edge worn and rubbed, with chipping at top of spine; some soiling and creasing to rear panel; price unclipped. Pages toned as appropriate with age. Deckled edges.
The landmark opening novel of Asimov’s celebrated Foundation sequence, expanding his future-history vision of Galactic decline, psychohistory, and the planned rise of a new civilization. Originally published in 1951, this copy represents a later Doubleday Science Fiction issue rather than the original Gnome Press first edition. A desirable vintage copy, uncommon in jacket, and well suited for collectors of Isaac Asimov, Foundation, and classic SF. Case 1.
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