Lot 137•
ASIMOV (ISAAC) Pebble in the Sky, ; Stars Like Dust; Currents of Space, FIRST EDITIONS; and others by Asimov in jackets; with typed letter signed, and invitation (17)
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ASIMOV (ISAAC)
Pebble in the Sky, with date on title, and "First Edition" and date on colophon, small stain at foot of spine, jacket priced $2.50 inside upper flap, blank ends of flaps slightly shaved, toned, fading to spine, 1950; Stars Like Dust, jacket price clipped, ends of flaps slightly shaved, toned, fading to spine, 1951; The Currents of Space, ends of flaps slightly shaved, dampstain to spine edge of lower cover, folds strengthened with brown paper on cover verso, 1952; The Martian Way and Other Stories, jacket a little rubbed at extremities, 1955; Nine Tomorrows. Tales of the Near Future, jacket rubbed at extremities, 1959; The Gods Themselves, 1972, FIRST EDITIONS, publisher's cloth, 8vo, New York, Doubleday; and 9 others by Asimov; an undated Doubleday pictorial invite to an Asimov event, and a typed letter signed ("Isaac") to Nick Austin at Panther Books, mentioning his novels Jupiter, The Second Experiment and Murder at the ABA, whilst wishing him well on his move to Sphere Books, one page, 16 October 1975 (17)
Footnotes
Includes first editions of Asimov's first novel, Pebble in the Sky, and the other two titles in his Sci-Fi Galactic Empire trilogy.