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Isaac Asimov Prelude to Foundation 1st/1st Doubleday 1988 LN Mylar

by Isaac Asimov

$50 · Offered by eBay

First edition

​Collector Features & Identification ​◦ Author: Isaac Asimov ◦ Cover Artist: Kiyoshi Kanai. ◦ Book Series: Robot Series (Book 3) ◦ Publisher & Year: Doubleday (1983) ◦ Format: Hardcover with Dust Jacket (Trade Edition) ◦ Edition: First Edition, First Printing (Verified) ​◦ Identification: This is a verified, structurally pristine First Edition, First Printing of Isaac Asimov's The Robots of Dawn. The copyright page correctly states "First Edition" alongside the 1983 copyright. The dust jacket features the unclipped $15.95 price on the inner flap. The volume is bound in beautiful white boards with a red quarter-cloth spine and bright silver lettering denoting the title, author, and Doubleday publisher stamp. It features crisp, clean white paste-downs and endpapers. ​◦ Genre: Science Fiction, Mystery, Detective Fiction ​◦ Topics: • Detective Elijah Baley • R. Daneel Olivaw and R. Giskard Reventlov • The Spacer World of Aurora • Han Fastolfe and Gladia Delmarre • The Three Laws of Robotics ​◦ Exact Page Count: • The Robots of Dawn: 419 Pages. ​About the Book (Synopsis) ​In the highly anticipated third installment of the Robot series, Earth detective Elijah Baley is called to the prominent Spacer world of Aurora to investigate a complex and politically explosive crime: the "roboticide" of a humaniform robot named R. Jander Panell, whose mind has been completely destroyed. Partnered once again with his android colleague R. Daneel Olivaw, and introduced to the older-model R. Giskar

  • Publisher: Doubleday
  • Year: 1988
  • Condition: Very Good

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