Books

� 1951: 1st in the 'Foundation' series of books:- 1st UK edition, 1st printing. Cover has some tears to folds & a couple of nicks, but is otherwise in good repair. Price clipped. Small amount of foxing to text block. Now protected by new Brodart jacket cover:- Synopsis: Isaac Asimov is one of the most accomplished writers of Science Fiction. His width of interest and imagination give him a place all his own and 'Foundation' has been acclaimed as one of his best works. It is set in a future century, in the days of the Julactic Empire, a society of a million worlds throughout the Milky Way. The prophetic image of Hari Sheldon, specialist in psychohistory, hovers behind the forces fighting to prevent thirty thousand years of anarchy. A thought-provoking and entertaining novel:- (original cost 10'6).

Foundation is a seminal work of science fiction by Isaac Asimov. It is the first published installment of the Foundation series. The story unfolds over several centuries and follows the efforts of the psychohistorian Hari Seldon to preserve knowledge and culture in the face of the fall of the Galactic Empire.