The Caves of Steel
by Isaac Asimov
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Good -/Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1954. Good -/Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1954. First Edition, stated. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in blue dust jacket designed by Ruth Ray, red topstain; 224pp. Ex-Berkshire Athenæum with their markings; subsequently the volume shows signs of exceedingly heavy use, boards and jacket extremities rubbed with loss of both along bottom margin of rear cover, spine cocked, old dirty glue residue to both endpapers, toning and soil to extremities occasionally affecting textblock. A Good at the very best copy of an otherwise quite desirable book, the first in Asimov's Robot series.
[Currey p. 16].
[Currey p. 16].
Synopsis
The Caves of Steel is a novel by Isaac Asimov. It is essentially a detective story, and illustrates an idea Asimov advocated, that science fiction is a flavor that can be applied to any literary genre, rather than a limited genre itself. Specifically, in the book Asimov's Mysteries, he claims that he wrote the novel in response to the claim by editor John W. Campbell that mystery and science fiction were incompatible genres.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9562
- Title
- The Caves of Steel
- Author
- Isaac Asimov
- Book Condition
- Used - Good -
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1954
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...