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Asimov, Isaac. THE CAVES OF STEEL.. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, (1954) dj, 1954.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover - Book club edition. The first of the robot novels - and considered one of Asimov's best novels, introducint Police Detective Life - Elijah - Bailey, a blunt plainclothes officer who hates spacemen and robots, but has no choice when Daneel, a robot is assigned at his partner. 224 pp. Dust jacket by Ruth Ray. Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (usual toning to pages, some sunning to spine of dj)
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Asimov, Isaac. The Caves of Steel. Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1954.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 224pp.; HB blue w/red-red trim; PON; fine condition w/clean,tight pgs. DJ blue w/white-pic.cover; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; spine sunned w/chips&tears. "A Spaceman-a specialist in robotics-had been murdered. Spacetown suspected an Earthman and demanded an investigation. The case was intergalactic dynamite." Book Club Edition
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Book club edition in turquoise "composition" boards. Copyright "1953, 1954" with no later printings mentioned. Asimov's first robot novel, originally serialized in three autumn, 1953 issues of Galaxy magazine. "Very good" original jacket shows minor chipping to corners. 224 pp.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Asimov, Isaac. The Caves Of Steel. DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC., GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK, 1954.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Title on spine. Top edge tint. Rough cut deckeled fore edge. Minor shelf and edge wear, corners some rubs and the slightest of bumps; no markings or damage. Very clean and tight text. no dust jacket DATE PUBLISHED: 1954 EDITION: 224
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Isaac Asimov. The Caves of Steel. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1954.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1954. First Edition, stated. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in blue dust jacket designed by Ruth Ray, red topstain; 224pp. Ex-Berkshire Athenæum with their markings; subsequently the volume shows signs of exceedingly heavy use, boards and jacket extremities rubbed with loss of both along bottom margin of rear cover, spine cocked, old dirty glue residue to both endpapers, toning and soil to extremities occasionally affecting textblock. A Good at the very best copy of an otherwise quite desirable book, the first in Asimov's Robot series. [Currey p. 16].
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Asimov, Isaac. The Caves of Steel. Doubleday and Company, Garden City, NY, 1954.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: Book club edition. Signed by Isaac Asimov on the title page. Bound in publisher's original blue leatherette binding. Very Good with droplets to topstain, light wear to corners and spine ends, small nick to gutter of front endsheet, pages toned and endhseets offset. In a Very Good dust jacket with chipping at the corners and spine ends; blindside is toned and with light staining at the spine ends not visible from the exterior. The first book in Asimov's Robot series, rare signed.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Asimov, Isaac. THE CAVES OF STEEL. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1954.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, jacket illustration by Ruth Ray, boards. The first of the Robot novels. "A richly characterized, thoughtfully told story; justifiably a favorite among Asimov's readers." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-10. Hubin, p. 34. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 245. Touch of rubbing to boards edges, a fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a touch of edge rubbing, a little black stain to spine ends and corners from old style jacket protector. An attractive copy with good color. (12445)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Asimov, Isaac. The Caves of Steel.. Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, NY, 1954.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the first work in Asimov's acclaimed Robot series. Octavo, original blue boards, red topstain. Signed by Isaac Asimov on the title page. Light wear to the cloth, near fine in a very goodÂdust jacket with some rubbing and wear to the extremities. Dust jacket design by Ruth Ray. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed. "One of the classic presentations of the womb-city, metropolis as mother, which has haunted imaginations ever since. The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun are the best books Isaac Asimov ever wrote" (The Guardian). In 2004 The Caves of Steel was nominated for a retroactive Hugo Award for Best Novel for 1954. A television adaptation was made by the BBC and shown in 1964: only a few short excerpts still exist. In 1989, the book was adapted by Bert Coules as a radio play for the BBC, with Ed Bishop as Elijah Baley and Sam Dastor as R. Daneel Olivaw.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Asimov, Isaac. The Caves of Steel. Doubleday and Company, Garden City, New York, 1954.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition stated, first printing. Signed by Isaac Asimov on title page and inscribed to a former owner. 224 pp. Bound in publisher's original dark blue leatherette with spine lettered in red, red topstain. Near Fine with light rubbing to spine ends, pages tanned, in a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with sunning to spine and edges, light edge wear and light toning. The first book in Asimov's Robot series, very uncommon signed.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.