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THE CURRENTS OF SPACE
by Asimov, Isaac
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Mild offsetting to endpapers, touch of fade to edges of boards, a nearly fine copy in a just about fine dust jacket with mild ed
- Seller
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. First edition. Mild offsetting to endpapers, touch of fade to edges of boards, a nearly fine copy in a just about fine dust jacket with mild edge rubbing. An attractive copy. (16892). Octavo, jacket illustration by George Guisti, boards. "... an effective standalone blend of mystery and adventure on a world where unspecified disaster has been foretold by a highly specialist expert now lost to amnesia." - John Clute / Malcolm J. Edwards, SFE (online). "Minor early Asimov set against the interstellar background of the Trantorian Empire (about to become the galactic empire of the 'Foundation' series). A complex adventure with an anti-racist theme." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 83.
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"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16892
- Title
- THE CURRENTS OF SPACE
- Author
- Asimov, Isaac
- Book Condition
- Used - Mild offsetting to endpapers, touch of fade to edges of boards, a nearly fine copy in a just about fine dust jacket with mild ed
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- SF
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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