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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. First edition. Touch of rubbing to boards edges, a fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a touch of edge rubbing, a little black stain to spine ends and corners from old style jacket protector. An attractive copy with good color. (12445). Octavo, jacket illustration by Ruth Ray, boards. The first of the Robot novels. "A richly characterized, thoughtfully told story; justifiably a favorite among Asimov's readers." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-10. [Reference: Hubin, p. 34. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 245].

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'