Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Moderately worn, rubbed, and soiled.
Seller: The Red Onion Bookshoppe, Hanover, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Spine slightly cocked. Small bit of wear at corners and spine head and foot; very small chips and closed tear to dust jacket at spine foot, wear at corners; No markings to pages. Overall solid copy; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 732 p.
Seller: Berkshire Books, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$44.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inside front flap is clipped. Slight discoloration to pages and DJ. Several small open and close tears along the DJ edges. Slight rubbing wear to DJ.
Seller: Sabra Books, Naperville, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Description: Slightly bruised spine heel, small dent to top edge. A near fine copy in very good dustjacket with chipping to the edges, light creasing, and a short, closed tear to the lower edge of the front panel. ; Octavo.
Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover first edition - First printing. The first autobiography by this prolific science fiction writer, who was also a child prodigy and a renowned professor. This covers his childhood, education and early years as a writer. Photographs, index. 732 pp. Near fine in a very good dustjacket (binding tight and straight, dj is price clipped, has some light creasing to upper edge, few very small nicks at top of spine - better condition than this this book is usually found.)
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated first edition. Tan cloth boards with gilt titles to black spine and gilt facsimile signature to front cover. Fine; in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with light corner and spine end wear, and mild light staining and scuffing. 24 pages of b/w illustrations from the author. Quarto: size is 6-1/2" by 9-1/2". 732 pages, including index. The autobiography of American science fiction legend Isaac Asimov [born Isaak Yudovich Ozimov] (1920-1992) covering the period of 1920 to 1954. He discusses his emmigration from Russia with his family when he was three, learning to read on his own, graduating early from high school and attending college at age 15, serving in the Army and Navy during World War II, his first marriage, years as a teacher of biochemistry at Boston University Medical School, and his writing of The Foundation Trilogy. This covers the first half of an amazing and productive life.
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Spine mildly concaved, tiny dot of stain to fore-edge, else a near fine copy in black cloth over sand-colored cloth; in a faintly age-toned photo-pictorial dust jacket that shows a hint of rubbing. Illustrated with photographs. Massive first chunk of Asimovian memoirs takes the grand old man of sf from his family's emigration out of Russia to the recognition attendant upon the completion of his Foundation trilogy. Checklist of Asimov books. 732 pages, including index.
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Two vols. Thick tall 8vo. vii, [3], 732; x, [2], 828 pp. With photo plates. Uniformly bound in quarter-black cloth over khaki-coloured cloth boards, gilt lettering on spines (minor dustsoiling upper fore-edges, shelfwear, rubbing), w/ d.j.'s jacket designs by Robert Alucino (edgewear, minor toning, slight rubbing) still VG/VG set. First editions, stated, of this massive autobiography of the famed author, writer of over 200 works, winner of the Hugo Award, and one of the most significant scientific and science fiction authors of the 20th Century.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, 732pp., illustrated. Spine cupped, as often, and some foxing to the edges, along with old inexplicable tape ghost to the front and rear boards; about very good. In a near fine dust jacket, just a tinge faded on teh spine and offset on the front panel. This copy SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Asimov on the title page in the year after publication: "To Marc Alpert Isaac Asimov 12 June 1980."
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Photos, 9.5 x 6.5", two-tone gilt-lettered cloth, 732pp with index, extremities bumped, some wrinkling to paste-downs, textblock edges a bit spotted and soiled, in a rubbed, lightly spotted and edge-worn dustjacket. Trade edition (no mention of printing), INSCRIBED "To John.12 Apr 79" AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ISAAC ASIMOV.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-vii [viii-xii] [1-3] 4-732, cloth. First edition. A presentation copy with brief signed inscription by Asimov to "Dave" [David G. Hartwell] dated 5 July 1980 on the title page. First volume of Asimov's autobiography, published as his 200th book (along with OPUS 200). A fine copy in fine dust jacket save for a bit of dust soiling to rear panel. (#163952)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.