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222 pp. Stated: "First Ballantine Books Edition: February, 1985"; '$2.95' price at top right corner front cover, next to the 'A Del Rey' logo; "The Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Novelette". Glossy wraps (Mass Market Paperback) with front cover illustration of a robot, seated on a rocky out-cropping of a rocky planetary surface, sitting in Rodin's "The Thinker" position, with spaceship and a half-dozen companions (or villains) appearing tiny and in the distance, having descended from the spaceship; title letering in small white letters across upper middle front cover, below author name lettering in large red letters. Text pages and book edges age-toned (browned); inside covers browned around the perimeters; thin line of intermittent flecks (miniscule) down both spine edges, lower rear cover edge, and down rear cover at gutter-like distance and parallel to left spine edge (NO fold or crease there, just the superficial surface flecks); tiny, superficial surface chip at top edge front cover near mid-point; teeny crease (1/8") on the diagonal at top left corner rear cover: describes worse than it is, but there you have it, non-science-fictionally Tight binding (NO creases); corners essentially square; only superficial rubbing wear; NO previous owner names. Clean text. Inscribed, signed and dated by the author: "To the - - - / all the best / Isaac Asimov / 15 March 1989". Collectible. (Shipping and Insurance to be determined at time of order).

A collection of science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov, including the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning title story 'The Bicentennial Man'.