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PEBBLE IN THE SKY
by Asimov, Isaac
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Talent, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. First edition. first printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Asimov on the front free endpaper, "For Dirce Archer, With best wishes, Isaac Asimov." Dirce Archer was a well known science fiction fan of the 1950's and 60's. Asimov's first novel. "A sentimental favorite among Asimov's fans, but significant also as a transitional step between the relatively miserly world of Golden Age pulps and the relatively lucrative world of mainstream book publication." Quoted from Barron; Anatomy of Wonder 4, 3-15. Bound in gray cloth with lettering on the spine in red. The merest hint of toning to the edges of the text block, else fine in fine and bright dust jacket illustrated by Richard Powers, Doubleday's $2.50 price present, and with just the merest hint of rubbing at the spine panel ends. An exceptional associational copy.
Synopsis
Pebble in the Sky is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov, published in 1950. This work is his first novel — parts of the Foundation series had appeared from 1942 onwards, in magazines, but Foundation was not published in book form until 1951. The original Foundation books are also a string of linked episodes, whereas this is a complete story involving a single group of characters.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41825
- Title
- PEBBLE IN THE SKY
- Author
- Asimov, Isaac
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. first printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2009
Talent, Oregon
About Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books
Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books has been a full-time mail order bookstore since 1984. Beginning with a small inventory of 400 books, we now have over 10,000 books. Though we do not have an open store, every year we exhibit at between 12 to 14 book fairs and events in the Western United States. All our books are listed on line and visitors are welcome by appointment.
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- Spine
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