Foundation: An Interplanetary Novel
by Asimov, Isaac
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
-
Miami, Florida, United States
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About This Item
This book is clean and tight with light yellowing on the pages due to age and paper quality. It has a previous owner small stamp in the inside front cover. It has a mylar cover for protection.
The jacket shows shelf ware on the edges, spine and corners and has some small cracks. The picture looks good.
Synopsis
One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building. The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari Seldon. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. And mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and live as slaves--or take a stand for freedom and risk total destruction.From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grove Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GA00230917
- Title
- Foundation
- Author
- Asimov, Isaac
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover boards in dark blue with red designs
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Gnome Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1951
- Pages
- 255
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ASIMOV, SCIENCE FICTION
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Grove Antiquarian
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Miami, Florida
About Grove Antiquarian
We buy and sell books, specializing in South Florida and the Caribbean.
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We are always interested in purchasing important individual items or specific collections. We are a mail order business.
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