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Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The Stars, Like Dust. By Isaac Asimov. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., Book Club Edition. Dust Jacket by Whitney Bender. 1951, 218 pp, 8 x 5.5", 8vo. In fair condition. Dust jacket shows the most wear with light chipping to head and tail of spine & clipped corners. Dust jacket is rubbed at edges & worn at creases; "Book Club Edition" on front flap's bottom corner remains intact. Cream rear cover and hinge flaps are lightly toned on dust jacket, but otherwise attractive. Navy cloth boards lightly rubbed at edges and corners. Head and tail of spine scuffed; painted lettering bright and clean. Text-block clean. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. Isaac Asimov ( 1920 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. A prolific writer, he wrote or edited more than 500 books. He also wrote an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Best known for his hard science fiction, Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as popular science and other non-fiction. The Stars, Like Dust is a 1951 science fiction mystery book by American writer Isaac Asimov. The book is part of Asimov's Galactic Empire series and takes place before the actual founding of the Galactic Empire, before even Trantor becomes important. It starts with a young man attending the University of Earth. Biron Farrill is the son of the greatest nobleman on the planet Nephelos, one of the Nebula Kingdoms. The story starts with the news that his father has been caught conspiring against the Tyranni. Book Club Edition! Gift quality. RAREA1951ABCB 05/24 - HK1551
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Asimov, Isaac. The Stars Like Dust. Doubleday and Co., Inc., Garden City, NY, 1951.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Dark blue textured paper covered boards, spine panel lettered in pale orange. Book club edition (1951). Very slight rubbing to extremities, text block edges slightly toned by age, otherwise essentially as issued. Former owner's address inscription inked at top corner of front flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Color illus. dust jacket shows slightly toned rear panel, lettering and publisher's device on spine panel slightly sunned, mild foxing along flap edges and folds, now in mylar. 218 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Asimov, Isaac. The Stars, Like Dust. Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1951.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition of Asimov's second science fiction novel. Blue boards bumped and rubbed with wear at the corners and spine ends, and a tear most of the way up the front spine fold. Binding cracked at page 30 but still pretty solid.
Seller: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, U.S.A.
Asimov, Isaac. THE STARS, LIKE DUST. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1951.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. Asimov's third sf book and second sf novel. Asimov's first three published novels are set earlier in the galactic empire future history of the Foundation stories, but have no direct connection with them. THE STARS, LIKE DUST is a space opera in which rebels fight the powerful war lords of Tyrann whose goal is the domination of the Galaxy. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 239. A fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with light wear to spine ends, short closed tear at lower front flap fold with faint associated wrinkle on front panel, and fading to the pinkish-orange ink on the spine panel. Presents well overall. (#142712)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Asimov, Isaac. THE STARS, LIKE DUST. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1951.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. Asimov's third sf book and second sf novel. Asimov's first three published novels are set earlier in the galactic empire future history of the Foundation stories, but have no direct connection with them. THE STARS, LIKE DUST is a space opera in which rebels fight the powerful war lords of Tyrann whose goal is the domination of the Galaxy. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 239. A fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with light wear to corners, 15 mm closed tear along bottom edge of rear flap fold, and spine ends and some internal age-darkening with some show through on rear panel. (#138685)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Asimov, Isaac. THE STARS LIKE DUST. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1951.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, jacket illustration by Whitney Bender, cloth. Asimov's third sf book and second sf novel. Asimov's first three published novels are set earlier in the galactic empire future history of the Foundation stories, but have no direct connection with them. THE STARS, LIKE DUST is a space opera in which rebels fight the powerful war lords of Tyrann whose goal is the domination of the Galaxy. A fine copy, touch of rubbing to board extremities, top edge a little dusty in a near fine dust jacket with mild rubbing to corners and spine ends, fade to title color lettering on spine panel. (11061)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Asimov, Isaac. THE STARS, LIKE DUST. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1951.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. Asimov's third sf book and second sf novel. Asimov's first three published novels are set earlier in the galactic empire future history of the Foundation stories, but have no direct connection with them. THE STARS, LIKE DUST is a space opera in which rebels fight the powerful war lords of Tyrann whose goal is the domination of the Galaxy. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 239. Cloth lightly rubbed at edges, top edge of text block a little dusty, else a fine copy in near fine dust jacket with mild rubbing to corners and spine ends and fading of color of title lettering on spine panel. (#111864)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Asimov, Isaac. The Stars Like Dust.. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1951.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Asimov's second science fiction novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Isaac Asimov on the title page. Light offsetting to the endpapers, near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing to the spine. Uncommon signed. The Stars Like Dust is the first book in Asimov's Galactic Empire series. âScience fiction on the larger scale is Isaac Asimov's specialty. The scene of his new book, a rousing adventure story of the remote future, is the Galaxy, which, with its hundreds of inhabited planets, has been taken over by a dictatorial race called, appropriately enough, the Tyranni. A small group of rebels wage a determined battle against the dictators, giving Mr. Asimov plenty of opportunities to plot those involved and subtle twists for which he is known. Its clear writing and excellent suspense make this book a welcome addition to the science fiction lists" (The New York Times).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.