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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1954. One of the classic presentations of the womb-city, metropolis as mother, which has haunted imaginations ever since... The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun are the best books Isaac Asimov ever wrote" (The Guardian). In 2004 The Caves of Steel was nominated for a retroactive Hugo Award for Best Novel for 1954. A television adaptation was made by the BBC and shown in 1964: only a few short excerpts still exist. In 1989, the book was adapted by Bert Coules as a radio play for the BBC, with Ed Bishop as Elijah Baley and Sam Dastor as R. Daneel Olivaw.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1954. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Isaac Asimov on title page. 224 pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth with red spine lettering, red topstain. Good only, probable ex-library copy with no markings as such but tape stains to boards, staining to endpapers and edges of cloth from dust jacket protector (since removed), a bit of paper stuck to rear board, wear to rear endpaper, in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light wear, a little sunning to spine, staining along top and bottom edges of the verso, tape repair to horizontal scratch on verso as well. The first book in Asimov's Robot series, very rare signed.

THE CAVES OF STEEL, Doubleday, 1954, first edition, fine in just about fine dust-wrapper with a closed tear to the rear dust-wrapper panel. Among the authors scarcest books to locate in first edition and his first mystery novel. Elijah Baley & R. Daneel Olivaw #1. 

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1954. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue leather-affect boards with spine stamped in red. Near Fine with front inner hinge slightly exposed, light offsetting to endsheets. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket. with fading and a scrape to the spine and closed scraped tear to rear panel.

London, United Kingdom: T.V. Boardman & Company Ltd, 1954. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 224pp. A true first UK edition in an original price clipped jacket. A Good copy with clean unmarked pages, faint moisture stain to rear board and inside of board, the jacket is bright and not faded some strengthening to the top and base of the spine, rubbing to the extremities of the jacket.. A very solid, better than good example of a scarce Asimov highlight..

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1954. Good -/Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1954. First Edition, stated. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in blue dust jacket designed by Ruth Ray, red topstain; 224pp. Ex-Berkshire Athenæum with their markings; subsequently the volume shows signs of exceedingly heavy use, boards and jacket extremities rubbed with loss of both along bottom margin of rear cover, spine cocked, old dirty glue residue to both endpapers, toning and soil to extremities occasionally affecting textblock. A Good at the very best copy of an otherwise quite desirable book, the first in Asimov's Robot series. [Currey p. 16].

Doubleday, 1954. Book. Poor. Hardcover. First Ed. First ed. Rebound ex-library copy. Poor condition, all the usual ex-library defects, including pockets, inkstamps, etc. Rebound in red cloth with labels on spine. original rear flap of dustjacket pasted to FEP..

New York: Ballantine Books / Del Rey, 1984. ------# 012242 - The scans you see are the books you get. The complete soft cover four volume set (roughly) 7" by 4 1/4" (inches) the "R. Daneel Olivaw" series, not three volumes, not five volumes, just 4 books in the complete set. xvi + 268, xiv + 270, viii + 468, 398 pages, tight square true & clean, flat spines, books 1 & 2 are in Very Good to Very Good Plus condition with minor edge wear, the other two books are in Near Fine condition. "A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective & a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic… Read More

Doubleday, 1957. Book Club. Hardcover. Used Good/Good. Boards clean, square corners, bottom of back board is dented. DJ has chipping to bottom edge and small piece missing to bottom of spine. Hinges tight. Text clean, unmarked. Textblock has foxing.

NY: SFBC Science Fiction, 1999. Includes: The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, and The Robots of Dawn. Textblock is very clean and very tight; Black paper-covered boards, denting to front top edge and to the head and foot of spine corners. Unclipped dust jacket, rippled top edges, edge wear, scuffing to front cover. 745p.. First SFBC Science Fiction Printing. Paper-Covered Boards. Very Good+/Very Good+ (in mylar). Illus. by Matt Stawicki Jacket Art. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

New York: Pyramid Books, 1962. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Pyramid F-784; the first novel in Asimov's classic science fiction-mystery series featuring New York City police detective Lije Baley and his partner R(robot) Daneel Olivaw; cover art by Ralph Brillhart; First Printing of First Pyramid Edition; text is clean, tight, slight spine lean, age-tanned in white pictorial wrappers showing age-discoloration along edges and spine, minor surface and edgewear.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pyramid Books, 1962. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Collectible. F-784. A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions. But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer. The relationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start. Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner: R. Daneel Olivaw. Worst of all was that the "R"… Read More

New York: Pyramid Books. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1962. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 189 pages; A touch of darkening to white covers. #F-784. .

New York: Pyramid Books, 1962 1st printing. Pyramid F-784. [paperback] 4x7 inches. Cover art by Ralph Brillhart. Attractive covers. *faults: Light spine line at joint, Light reading line on front cover near joint. Pages yellowed, cracks between pages 34/35 and 68/69 but Pages secure. Very Good-minus.

First mass market edition third printing of the first novel in the Lije Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw series. Light edge wear. In near fine condition.

Greenwich, CN: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1972. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Fawcett Crest M1921; the first novel in Asimov's classic science fiction-mystery series featuring New York City police detective Lije Baley and his partner R(robot) Daneel Olivaw; originally published in 1954; text is clean, tight, square in pictorial wrappers with minimal surface and edgewear.

Galaxy Science Fiction, Vol. 7, No. 1, Oct. 1953., 1953. First Edition . Soft cover. Good. First printnig. 160 pp., 8vo, pulp softcover with color cover. Good only with wear/creasing to covers, corner of rear cover cut off, spine starting to split at base, ink mark to rear cover. Uncommon issue with the first installment of Asimov's story.

Asimov, Isaac., Pyramid Books (F-784), nd (1962), c1954, 1st soft cover edition, illus. soft cover, vg, 189 pp, 16mo, "Sudden death and the threat of the deadliest war in history...", $7.50

Signet S1240, 1955 First printing October 1955 in Very Good Plus condition. Cover art by Robert Schulz. First of the Robot Novels.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good Plus.

del rey, ballantine, first thus, 1983. very good, unread, but a couple faint splash marks on the end paperback,