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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, 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.