PEBBLE IN THE SKY by Asimov, Isaac - 1950

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. First edition. Small stain along top edge of front free endpaper, top page edges dusty, upper right front corner slightly bumped, a nearly fine copy in a good dust jacket with shelf wear to spine ends, edges and corners, small loss to corner tips and upper spine panel. (17582). Octavo, jacket art by Richard Powers, cloth. The author's first SF novel (and first book). In the far future "Earth is largely a radioactive wasteland, populated by a few million inhabitants who are discriminated against by the rest of the galactic empire which has forgotten that Earth was humanity's original home." - Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 122. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-51. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 237. In 333.