May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 372

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
ASIMOV, ISAAC. The Foundation Trilogy. Foundation * Foundation and Empire * Second Foundation. 8vo, publisher's first state cloth bindings; first state dust jackets, Foundation has had a protective coating applied to the jacket which also bears some edgewear and some soiling seen mostly on verso, other jackets with light edgewear. New York: Gnome Press, vd

Additional Details

first edition of the hugo award-winner for all time best series. Foundation has some dampsoiling to jacket, most visible on verso, and a Signed bookplate by Asimov laid in. Foundation and Empire has cellotape repairs to recto of spine panel ends and a bookplate on front free endpaper. However, laid in is a typed postcard signed by asimov to a Mr. Malcolm Edwards about having no objection to his speech being reprinted in "Vector" magazine that will mention "The Gods Themselves." 12 April 1972. With postal ink cancellation stamp.