Nov 13, 2018 - Sale 2493

Sale 2493 - Lot 3

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
ASIMOV, ISAAC. The Caves of Steel. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth, leaning slightly; unclipped dust jacket, short closed tears to spine panel head, front flap fold corners nicked; tape ghosts on top and bottom of boards, and same to front free endpaper and bottom of rear endpaper (rectos only), rear endpaper with obscured ink inscription below remnants of removed label. (ESS) Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1954

Additional Details

first edition, presentation copy, signed and inscribed on the title "To Stanley Simon / best / wishes / Isaac / Asimov." The author's second science fiction novel; seldom found signed.