Swann Galleries - 19th & 20th Century Literature

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ASIMOV, ISAAC.

The Foundation Trilogy. Foundation * Foundation and

Empire * Second Foundation.

Together, 3 volumes. 8vo, publisher’s cloth, few small

areas of light mottling or discoloration to boards, light rubbing to spine tips; dust jackets,

first two titles price-clipped, shallow chipping to spine panel heads including small loss

affecting a few letters on third title, few short closed tears and occasional edge creasing;

pastedowns darkened from old binder’s glue on third title as usual.

NewYork: Gnome Press, 1951; 1952; 1953

[4,500/6,000]

FIRST EDITIONS

IN FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKETS

THE FIRST TITLE BOLDLY SIGNED

by Asimov on

front flyleaf. All first printings conforming to Currey’s binding priority (A), meeting all first issue

points. In unrestored dust jackets.The Hugo Award winner for all-time best series. Currey, pp. 17; 19.