NIGHTFALL AND OTHER STORIES
by Asimov, Isaac
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to spine ends and corner tips and some toning to the white rear panel.
- Seller
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doublday & Company, Inc., 1969. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to spine ends and corner tips and some toning to the white rear panel. (25039). Octavo, cloth. Includes the title story and nineteen others. Asimov provides an introduction to each story. "Nightfall" is one of the classic stories of Science Fiction, "his most famous story and probably the single most famous US sf story of all time." - John Clute and Malcolm Edwards, SFE (online). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-50.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25039
- Title
- NIGHTFALL AND OTHER STORIES
- Author
- Asimov, Isaac
- Book Condition
- Used - A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to spine ends and corner tips and some toning to the white rear panel.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doublday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- SF . SC
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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