ASIMOV, ISAAC. Foundation * Foundation and Empire * Second Foundation. Together, 3 volumes. 8vo, boards and cloth, shelf-worn, joints

and extremities rubbed and corners bumped; association bookplates in 2 of the volumes; dust jackets, moderately chipped and rubbed, with internal tape reinforcement on one jacket, outwardly visible as shadows on the jacket panels. FIRST EDITIONS. New York: Gnome Press, (1951; 1952; 1953) FIRST EDITIONS. FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE IS SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY ASIMOV, "and is from the library of British SF editor John Carnell, with his bookplate. Second Foundation is from the library of American SF publisher George Scithers, with his bookplate." All 3 volumes are in Currey's A bindings, and Foundation and Empire is the earliest issue of the sheets.