Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Asimov, Isaac groundbreaking sci-fi novel FOUNDATION. Custom Collector's 'Sculpted' Clamshell Case. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1953 [Book Date]. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine, & features an embossed 'sculpted' cover after the famous dustwrapper's vintage illustration. The case is finished in Black Nuba and grey sides with gilt stamped titles on the spine. Every TBCL case can be finished in a selection of fine leathers & cloths or Nuba® or a combination of both.Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for OVER 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. Book definitely NOT included. When you place your order: Please confirm the actual size of your first edition as sizes may vary with age especially if covered in mylar. *The text can be altered to add "signed" or other special requests.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Asimov (Isaac). Foundation. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1953.
Price: US$756.78 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10s 6d. The first of Asimov's influential science fiction series, a cornerstone of modern speculative fiction. The UK edition came out two years after the US. A near fine example of the book; jacket very slightly dulled at spine, otherwise very good.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Asimov, Isaac. Foundation. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1953.
Price: US$795.86 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop Adelaide (est. 1957) to check availability etc. We have many thousands more books in our shop than appear on line. No inscriptions etc. Bookseller's stamp bottom of front paste-down. Some foxing on EPs (very minimal) and some on fore-edge and tops of pages (very minimal). DJ has minor edge wear and some tiny edge tears (mostly corners); minor rubbing on back; price-clipped. Slight cracking internally between front EPs. Overall an excellent copy.
Seller: O'Connell's Bookshop Est. 1957, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Asimov, Isaac. FOUNDATION. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1953.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, Hardcover. First book in the Foundation series. Fine, light foxing to cut edges, in a very good plus dust jacket, very light rubbing to corners and edges, some soiling and spotting to rear panel, some spotting to spine panel, front panel nice and bright. A very attractive copy of an uncommon edition of this title. (7771)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Asimov, Isaac. Foundation. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1953.
Price: US$1122.34 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First UK edition, first impression (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1953). Originally published in the US in 1951. The first book in the Foundation series, which won the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series in 1966 and forms the basis for the 2021 Apple TV series. Publisher's original black cloth with silver lettering to spine. A near fine book with some of the usual moderate spotting to edges and off-setting to endpapers and half-title; light pencil impressions to top of front endpaper. The original and price-clipped dust jacket has a little bit of minor rubbing to edges in places and a couple of very tiny chips to corners. A near fine example of a rare edition of an iconic and influential work in the science fiction genre.
Seller: Fine Book Cellar Ltd. ABA ILAB PBFA, Chelmsford, United Kingdom
Isaac Asimov. Foundation. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1953.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK Edition; A Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. A handsome copy of this rare first UK publication of the classic SciFi novel, the first in the Foundation series, by one of the 20th century SciFi masters. Although not the true first, as the first US is the true first, this edition is much more scarce in the marketplace, particularly in collectible condition. This copy is in very good or better condition with a square tight binding, clean black boards with bright silver lettering, and clean white pages throughout; the book does show some light rubbing to the spine ends, a previous bookstore's bookplate to the front pastedown (small and unobtrusive), and some light staining to the top exterior text block that does bleed to the top of some of the pages (at the most about a 1/4"). Housed in a crisp and bright very good or better dust jacket that shows minor rubbing and chipping to the spine ends and edges, one small closed tear to the spine foot fold, and some light sunning to the spine. Overall, a sharp and collectible copy; an important addition to any Asimov or 20th Century Science Fiction collection. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA, Tomball, TX, U.S.A.