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FIRST EDITION STATED on copyright page. True first edition, with 1950 appearing on both title page & copyright page. Author's first book, SCARCE in DUSTJACKET. A science fiction time-travel novel. Bound in original grey cloth with orange lettering to spine, in publisher's unclipped pictorial dustjacket. Pictorial dustjacket with "Doubleday Science Fiction" printed to upper right corner of front panel, b&w photograph of Asimov & biographical description to rear panel, UNCLIPPED with original published price of $2.50 intact on upper inner front flap, lower inner front flap states "This novel has not appeared in any form prior to book publication", inner rear flap with ad for "The Big Eye" by Max Ehrlich. Printed in the USA at The Country Life Press, Garden City, N.Y. Book: VERY GOOD / Dustjacket: GOOD ONLY. Top edge of boards faintly stained (not affected internally), dustjacket along top edge also stained, large (10cm) horizontal closed tear to front panel, slight edgewear with small closed tears & chipped along upper front panel & spine ends, inner front flap split & almost detached from front panel, otherwise overall a nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. The dustjacket is now protected in a removable clear Bro-dart cover. 223pp. Uncommon first edition in dustjacket. RARE.

Pebble in the Sky is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov, originally published in 1950 as his first full-length novel.