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Publication: Second Foundation

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  • Publication: Second FoundationPublication Record # 471791
  • Author: Isaac Asimov
  • Date: 1953-05-15
  • Publisher: Gnome Press
  • Price:
    $2.75?$: US dollar
  • Pages: [x]+210
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: COLLECTION
  • Cover: Second Foundation by Ric Binkley
  • Notes:
    • "FIRST EDITION" on copyright page.
    • Cover artist credited on front flap of dustjacket. Cover is also signed.
    • Contento and Tuck list the contents by their original magazine titles, as do Chalker and Owings in The Science-Fantasy Publishers.
    • 5,000 copies printed according to The Science-Fantasy Publishers by Chalker & Owings (Electronic Edition, 1998, page 302).
    • Currey "B" state (green boards with black lettering). Chalker/Owings describes this as the second binding.
    • "Prolog" situated before the TOC. "Prolog" given a Roman numeral for a page number in TOC but actual pages are unnumbered.
    • Each section (novella) broken down into smaller sections, each with their own title and page numbers in TOC.
    • Publication date from Catalog of Copyright entry A00000124253.
    • Copyright renewed 1981-02-12 (RE0000084469).
    • No BLIC.
  • External IDs:
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Collection Title: Second Foundation • [Foundation • 3] • (1953) • collection by Isaac Asimov

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