Asimov's New Guide to Science
by Isaac Asimov
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0465004733
- ISBN 13
- 9780465004737
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
First edition. Very good book in like dust jacket. Dust jacket has light wear, and small closed tears at top edge; closed tear on back panel; is not price clipped; now in new removable protective cover. Blue cloth covered boards with gold and metallic red printing on the spine. Taupe colored end papers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Basic Books hard cover with dust jacket, first printing 1984, ISBN: 9780465004737, 940 pages, cover design by William Davis. 8vo (6.25" x 9.5") Asimov explains in the Preface that this is the 4th version of this book: The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science was published in 1960, followed by The New Intelligent Man's Guide to Science in 1965. In 1972 the 3rd version was called Asimov's Guide to Science. Here is the final version, published in 1984.
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- Bookseller
- Bujoldfan (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 040123109780465004737cvr
- Title
- Asimov's New Guide to Science
- Author
- Isaac Asimov
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first
- ISBN 10
- 0465004733
- ISBN 13
- 9780465004737
- Publisher
- Basic Books, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
- Pages
- 940
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- nonfiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Math & Science;
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