1st, signed by 3(author, intro, artist)Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov, Easton
Prelude to Foundation The Foundation Series Book Six. By Isaac Asimov (signed) Illustrated by Vincent DiFate (signed) Introduction by James Gunn (signed). Description: Heavy leatherbound hardback book published by Easton Press in 1988. Bound in top grade red leather with 22kt gold lettering and cover artwork. Hubbed spine, acid neutral paper with page edges gilded, satin moire endpapers, and a satin ribbon book mark sewn in.
Unused publisher supplied bookplate applied to the front pastedown. Originally issued by Easton Press signed only by the author on a special signature page without inscription or personalization, I have also gotten this copy signed as follows: Signed by the frontispiece artist on the title page without inscription or personalization; Signed by the introduction writer on the title page without inscription or personalization. Isaac Asimov items for sale. Publisher's Note: It is the year 12,020 G.
And Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall - those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future.
Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire... The man who holds the key to the future - an apocalyptic power to be know forever after as the Foundation.
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The item "1st, signed by 3(author, intro, artist)Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov, Easton" is in sale since Tuesday, January 7, 2014. This item is in the category "Books\Fiction & Literature". The seller is "red_dragon_books" and is located in San Luis Obispo, California. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Modified Item: Yes
- Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
- Inscribed: No
- Series: Foundation
- Format: Hardcover
- Title: Prelude to Foundation
- Type: Novel
- Author: Isaac Asimov
- Personalized: No
- Publication Year: 1988
- Modification Description: Signed by the illustrator and the introduction writer on the title page without inscription or personalization. Issued by the publisher signed by the author.
- Language: English
- Signed: Yes
- Publisher: Easton Press
- Age Level: Adults
- Genre: Science Fiction
- Special Attributes: Fine Leather Binding