The Naked Sun. New York: Doubleday, Garden City, 1957. First Edition (Book Club). Publisher’s yellow cloth boards, title lettered in red along spine, in original pictorial dust jacket designed by Ruth Ray. Jacket chipped along edges, with a little loss at tail, ownership inscription to front endpaper.

The second novel in Isaac Asimov’s legendary Robot series, featuring the return of detective Elijah Baley and his robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw.

In this instalment, the pair are sent to the sparsely populated, overly-sanitized planet of Solaria to solve a seemingly impossible murder—a mystery that forces Baley to confront his own deep-seated agoraphobia and challenge the very foundations of this strange, isolated society.