Foundation. An Interplanetary Novel. New York: Gnome Press, 1951. First Edition. Pp 255. Black cloth boards lettered in red with galaxy image to centre of upper cover, in publisher’s first issue pictorial dust jacket (design by David Kyle). Boards with a few white marks to edges, jacket browned, lightly rubbed along folds & frayed along top edge. Off-setting to endpapers, contents in very good condition. Housed in collector’s solander box.

The first book in Asimov’s acclaimed Foundation Trilogy, which won the 1966 Hugo Award for ‘Best All-Time Series.’

First published as a series of short stories and novellas in 1942-50, and subsequently in three collections published between in 1951 & 1953.