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Fact and Fancy
by Asimov, Isaac
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
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Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Blue cloth in black, white and blue dust jacket. First edition. Discoloration, chipping and tiny tears to dj. Boards gently pushed. PO's inscription in ink to ffep. Seventeen speculative essays on the Earth, The Solar System, The Universe and The Human Mind. Jacket design by Gotfryd. Binding sound.
Synopsis
Fact and Fancy is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by Isaac Asimov. It was the first of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Doubleday & Company first published it in March 1962. It was also published in paperback by Pyramid Books as part of The Worlds of Science series. The only essay that did not appear in Fantasy and Science Fiction was "Our Lonely Planet", which first appeared in Astounding Science Fiction.
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- Bookseller
- small volume
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 563
- Title
- Fact and Fancy
- Author
- Asimov, Isaac
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover in Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- Science, Astronomy, Biology, Aasimov
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
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- FFEP
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- First Edition
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- New
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- Jacket
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