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FOUNDATION AND EARTH
by Asimov, Isaac
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385233124
- ISBN 13
- 9780385233125
- Seller
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Santa Rosa, California, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, 1986 Book. Illus. by Wallerstein, Alan. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover first edition, first printing. Stated First Edition on copyright page. True first printing with all points present: Navy boards with red cloth spine. Code "1086" on rear jacket flap indicating an October, 1986 printing and code "BB27" on page 356. Original $16.95 price is intact on front jacket flap. Not a remainder, book club or ex-library copy. Fine (unread) copy in fine jacket. Jacket is pristine without tears, nicks or wrinkling. The page block is bright, solid and square, only showing a small smudge on the lower front corner of block (due to shelving). No previous owner's stamps or stickers as is common with this title. Extremely rare to find copies in fine condition. Award History: 1987 Locus Poll Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (lost to Speaker for the Dead by Card)..
Synopsis
Foundation and Earth is a Locus Award nominated science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov, the fifth novel of the Foundation series and chronologically the last in the series. It was published in 1986, four years after the first sequel to the Foundation trilogy and its direct predecessor Foundation's Edge.
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- Bookseller
- Top Shelf Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004752
- Title
- FOUNDATION AND EARTH
- Author
- Asimov, Isaac
- Illustrator
- Wallerstein, Alan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385233124
- ISBN 13
- 9780385233125
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- Isaac Asimov, Science Fiction, Books
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