The Best of Isaac Asimov
by Asimov, Isaac
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1974 First edition. xiv,294 pp. Octavo. Original blue cloth with black lettering on the spine. Original endpapers. One very small stain on the acknowledgments page otherwise a very crisp clean copy. Original, unprice clipped dust wrapper. There is a 1 X 2 inch piece missing from the bottom of the rear panel of the wrapper. A touch of light wear on the top joints of the wrapper, otherwise a very attractive copy. The great master has chosen 12 of his favorite stories he has written over the past 4 decades. Warmly inscribed to Beverley with Love Isaac Asimov and dated in January of 1975. 1974
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 144539
- Title
- The Best of Isaac Asimov
- Author
- Asimov, Isaac
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday and Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1974 First edition
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