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1982Best.-Nr. 2350744Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company Inc 1982. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x6x1. Book club edition gutter code N22. Jacket edges lightly rubbed with a few light creases along spine base jacket spine faded owner bookplate on front endpaper. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1982 Hard Cover. xiv 557 pp. Includes 31 stories. "The Complete Robot is the definitive anthology of Asimov's stunning visions of a robotic future. In these stories Isaac Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age: when Earth is ruled by master-machines and when robots are more human than mankind. As well as TN-3 Tony AL-76 and other robots the stories feature the staff of U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Inc. and in particular the chief robot-psychologist the steely Dr Susan Calvin who is in many ways more robot-like than her subjects. The Complete Robot is the ultimate collection of timeless amazing and amusing robot stories from the greatest science fiction writer of all time offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics were programmed into real computers thirty years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - with surprising results. Readers of today still have many surprises in store. The Three Laws of Robotics: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm; 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law." CONTENTS: A Boy's Best Friend; Sally; Someday; Point of View; Think; True Love; Robot AL-76 Goes Astray; Victory Unintentional; Stranger in Paradise; Light Verse; Segregationist; Robbie; Let's Get Together; Mirror Image; The Tercentenary Incident; First Law; Runaround; Reason; Catch that Rabbit; That Thou Art Mindful of Him; The Bicentennial Man; The Susan Calvin Stories: Liar; Satisfaction Guaranteed; Lenny; Galley Slave; Little Lost Robot; Risk; Escape; Evidence; The Evitable Conflict; Feminine Intuition; A Last Word. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover
1960Best.-Nr. 240792London: Abelard-Schuman 1960. First UK printing. HC w DJ. VG/Good. VG/Good. Light blue cloth red titling moisture stains to edges unmarked binding sound. Clipped DJ $3.00 moisture stained w wrinkling light edgewear now in Brodart. Diagram illustrations by John Bradford. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012. Abelard-Schuman hardcover
Best.-Nr. 3153Slight rubbing to boards; light toning and chipping to glassine wrapper. Isaac Asimov. John De Pol illustrator. "The Dream" "Benjamin's Dream" and "Benjamin's Bicentennial Blast" Benjamin Franklin Printing Week Library Keepsake No. 23. New York: Privately Printed 1976. First edition. Twelvemo. 51pp. Illustrated with woodcuts by John De Pol. Publisher's green paper-covered boards spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt illustrated endleaves original glassine dust wrapper. . unknown
Best.-Nr. 73-1510New York: Charles V. Morris 1976. 12mo. 51pp. Hard cover with translucent dustjacket. Black and white plates. Very Good. New York: Charles V. Morris, 1976 hardcover
1972Best.-Nr. BR-0518-808Hardcover. 288 pp. Doubleday & Company New York 1972. Later reprint of first edition. Bright clean unmarked copy that appears to be gently read. Light duat-spotting of top block edge. Very minor edgewear to tan faux leather boards. Near Fine. More photos on request. Shipped in a box within a box in bubble wrap with a tracking number. Doubleday & Company hardcover
1955Best.-Nr. 001803New York: Doubleday Science Fiction 1955. Book. Fine Minus. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club. Nice clean inside with no makings and stiff spine square boards and pointed tips. A little pushed along bottom boards and text block. Hint of tanning beginning at text block edges and on front free endpapers. Green top stain. Jacket is colorful but has loss/wear at most edges and spine ends. Looks out of this world in new plastic cover. Mailed in box suitable for wrapping. . Doubleday Science Fiction Hardcover
1979Best.-Nr. 001744NY: Doubleday & Company 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition of this collection of Asimov's non-fiction essays gathered from 1977-79 issues of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Octavo 5.75 x 8.5 in.; xix 217pp.; red papered boards backed with blue cloth gold spine lettering in dust jacket. A couple spots of minor interior soiling else fine in a very good jacket with rubbing and light soiling to rear panel and mild wear at the spine ends which have been reinforced with tape on the interior. Original "$8.95" price present on front flap. Doubleday & Company hardcover
1970Best.-Nr. 001759New York: Doubleday 1970. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First printing but with typical ex-library with text edge stamps and pocket removal from front free endpaper. However clean inside with no makings and fairly stiff spine but tips a little pushed and wear on bottom boards. Tape ghosts on endpapers and ripple in spine. Jacket has sticker on lower backstrip but is not price clipped. Looks out of this world in new plastic cover. Mailed in box suitable for wrapping. Science essays . reprinted from the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1959-April 1969. Doubleday Hardcover
1970Best.-Nr. 022607Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company 1970. First Edition . Hardcover. Stated first edition very good in a very good dust jacket. Slight dampstain near the top of the spine to both book and jacket. The blue cloth boards also also have slight loss to cloth along the bottom edge. The jacket has slight loss at spine ends edges and a little rubbing generally. $5.95 price is present on front flap. A collection of essays which first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from 1959 through 1969. Doubleday & Company hardcover
1981Best.-Nr. 16262NY: DOUBLEDAY. 1981. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1981. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385171455 . Fine in a fine dj. Essays on science. . NY: DOUBLEDAY. 1981 hardcover
1966Best.-Nr. 86452Walker & Company. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Light rubbing toning and bumps a few faint stains. Jacket with rubbing toning a few small creases small tears a few small stains. Uncommon. Photos upon request. Please note that the buyer is responsible for any customs duties tariffs or import fees levied by the destination country.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . 1966. Walker & Company hardcover
1997Best.-Nr. RASIWOR00fpCollier-Macmillan 1997. Very Good. Asimov Isaac. The World of Carbon. New York NY: Collier-Macmillan 1997. New revised edition sixth printing. 158pp. Indexed. 16mo. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed and faint creases to top corner and edge of front cover. Price on front cover has been scratched out. Several dog eared pages. Former owner's name in ink on first page. Collier-Macmillan paperback
1971Best.-Nr. 96052Boston:: Little Brown. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down else very good in a very good slightly chipped at the spine ends both corners of front flap are clipped dust jacket. . Little, Brown, hardcover
1961Best.-Nr. 033512Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1961. 225pp. Navy boards purple titles on spine purple illustration on front board. Binding tight spine straight corners solid. Gift inscription on half-title. Dust jacket shows wear to spine ends and extremities. Jacket is price clipped. All told a serviceable copy of Asimov's survey. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1906U. S. Energy Research and Development Administration Washington D.C. 1972. 8vo 62111174pp stapled paper covers illustrated -- All three volumes are in very good condition Ne575 Quantity Available: 1 Category: Science; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request Inventory No: 001906. U. S. Energy Research and Development Administration, Washington, D.C., 1972 unknown
1984Best.-Nr. DS 300Doubleday 1984. Book. Fine. Hardcover. FIRST. A FINE COPY IN DJ. FIRST EDITION. Doubleday Hardcover
1987Best.-Nr. 29295NY: Walker and Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0802709451 . Cartoons by Sidney Harris. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Walker and Company hardcover
1987Best.-Nr. 24939NY: Walker and Company. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0802709451 . Cartoons by Sidney Harris. First printing. Fine in a near fine short closed tear on rear panel dust jacket. . Walker and Company hardcover
1957Best.-Nr. 4034London: Methuen and Co 1957. 1957 First Edition thus. 8 x 5.75 inches. 381 pp. Navy cloth lettered in bronze gilt at spine. Foot of spine and bottom corner of front board slightly bumped crown of spine sunned. Jacket price-clipped small chips and tears along edges sunned along spine with lettering faded rear panel unevenly toned. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. In mylar sleeve. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. London: Methuen and Co, 1957. hardcover
2002Best.-Nr. 29345New York: W.W. Norton & Co. 2002. Book. Near Fine. Boards. 4th Printing. 8vo. Gilt lettered quarter marron boards over mustard boards. Wrapped in pictorial dust jacket. Best edition of Babel. Some wear to edges. W.W. Norton & Co. Hardcover
2001Best.-Nr. 906179New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc. 2001. Bound in quarter burgundy and tan boards in pictorial fine DW and matching fine slipcase; edited by Nathalie Babel; translated by Peter Constantine; introduction by Cynthia Ozick; 1072pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Hardcover
1969Best.-Nr. 27541New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Lavender cloth dust jacket. xv 283pp. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. First edition tight and quite nice -- and an interesting copy bearing the ownership signature/address on the front flyleaf in blue ballpoint of noted Chicago photographer ARCHIE LIEBERMAN 1926-2008 of "Farm Boy" fame. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover
1969Best.-Nr. 24010NY: FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1969. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First American edition. Near fine in price-clipped otherwise near fine dust jacket. A few short edge nicks in jacket. Light trace of foxing at top edge. . FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX. hardcover
1968Best.-Nr. 615141968. BACKUS Isaac. Isaac Backus on church State and Calvinism: Pamphlets 1754-1789. Edited by Wm. G. McLoughlin. Cambridge 1968. 1st ed. 525pp. Orig. cloth. Fine in d/j. unknown
Best.-Nr. SKU1017540American Academy for Jewish Research. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Fine 2 volume set in cardboard slipcase books look like new slipcase not so much but it protects the books well. American Academy for Jewish Research hardcover
