(Foundation Trilogy): FOUNDATION [with] FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE [with] SECOND FOUNDATION
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., n.d., [1963]. New edition, first Doubleday printing. A nearly fine set in nearly dust jackets with light shelf wear and a little toning, slight color fade to author lettering on spine panel from red to orange on FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE. (33302). Octavo, three volumes, cloth backed boards. This new Doubleday edition is their second release and the first printed by this publisher, it has been reset from the Gnome Press editions, code E29 on the lower inner margin of last page of text, dust jackets priced at $3.50. Doubleday released the books preceding this edition by binding up Gnome Press sheets in Doubleday bindings when it acquired the rights to the trilogy. New jacket art for all three volumes was also produced. The first three volumes of the Foundation series. Now a Apple TV series. Awarded a special Hugo in 1966 for best all-time series. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-46. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 819-31].
- Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc., n.d.
- Year: 1963
- Edition: New edition, first Doubleday printing
- Binding: unknown
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