Prelude to Foundation (Foundation Books) by Isaac Asimov ISBN 13: 9780385245852

UsedAcceptable. 1988 hardcover Book Club ed. Noticeably worn/torn dj/bind w/ water damage/discoloration! Text is mostly clean & readable.

E-266: Doubleday. Very Good. 1988. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Doubleday, New York. 1988. 356 pgs. #145 of a limited edition of 500 copies. Signed by Isaac Asimov on the limitation page. Slipcased. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. It is the year 12,020 G. E. 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… Read More