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Garden City: Doubleday, 1954. Stated first edition (first printing) of Asimov's seminal novel of humanoid robots, introducing Elijah Baley and his new partner R. Daneel Olivaw and their efforts to solve the murder of Olivaw's pro-robot creator; a cornerstone of any serious science fiction collection. In much later books, Asimov would connect Olivaw to his Foundation series. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Book shows light wear, corners bumped & rubbed, minor spine slant; jacket shows some rubbing, chipping, minor spine fade, $2.95 price intact; ink name & year (1954) inside front cover. Text clean; 224 pages. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Octavo.

Robots and Empire is a science fiction novel by the American author Isaac Asimov and published by Doubleday in 1985. It is part of Asimov's Robot series, which consists of many short stories (gathered into several collections) and several novels featuring positronic robots.

The first edition can often be identified by the dust jacket featuring an artwork by Alan Wallerstein, with 'Doubleday & Company' and 'Garden City, New York' mentioned on the copyright page, along with the complete number line that includes '1'