FOUNDATION Series: Including Foundation, Foundation and Empire, And, Second Foundation Uniform Edition

Asimov, Isaac

Published by Doubleday Science Fiction, New York, NY, 1963

About this Item

Cover Art; Complete Set of the Uniform Edition (published after Gnome Press released the copyright). The First and Third volumes are early printings with the code I51 (both published in 1967) , the Second volume is a first printing thus with a code of E29. The books are all in Near Fine condition and have Very Good+ or Very Good dust jackets (vol. 1 & 2 Very Good, Vol. 3 is Very Good+). The books and their contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The foredges of the text block of both volumes One and Two have toning. The dust jackets to Foundation and Foundation and Empire have some light edgewear and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. Foundation and Empire has spots of rubbing / discoloration to the top rear panel). Dust jacket prices are as follows: $4.50, $3.50 and, $3.95." The premise of the stories is that in the waning days of a future Galactic Empire, the mathematician Hari Seldon devises the theory of psychohistory, a new and effective mathematics of sociology. Using statistical laws of mass action, it can predict the future of large populations. Seldon foresees the imminent fall of the Empire, which encompasses the entire Milky Way, and a dark age lasting 30,000 years before a second empire arises. Although the momentum of the Empire's fall is too great to stop, Seldon devises a plan by which "the onrushing mass of events must be deflected just a little" to eventually limit this interregnum to just one thousand years. The books describe some of the dramatic events of those years as they are shaped by the underlying political and social mechanics of Seldon's Plan. " (fromw Wikipedia). Seller Inventory # A49105

Bibliographic Details

Title: FOUNDATION Series: Including Foundation, ...

Publisher: Doubleday Science Fiction, New York, NY

Publication Date: 1963

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Illustrated by Roger Zimmerman

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: various editions.