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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.