• Publication: FoundationPublication Record # 704013
• Author: Isaac Asimov
• Date: 1991-11-00
• ISBN: 0-553-29335-4 [978-0-553-29335-7]
• Publisher: Bantam Spectra
• Price:
  $4.99^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 296
• Format:
  pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Cover: Foundation (1991) • by Stephen Youll
• Notes: Last printing history line is "Bantam edition/November 1991" The post-content "About the Author" and inside back cover text describes Asimov as still living in New York City. The final page pre-order form for Forward the Foundation is dated 11-91 in the lower right.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • The Psychohistorians • [Foundation Universe] • (1951) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 47 • The Encyclopedists • [Foundation (Original Stories) • 1] • (1942) • novelette by Isaac Asimov (variant of Foundation)
• 97 • The Mayors • [Foundation (Original Stories) • 2] • (1942) • novelette by Isaac Asimov (variant of Bridle and Saddle)
• 171 • The Traders • [Foundation (Original Stories) • 4] • (1944) • short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of The Wedge)
• 203 • The Merchant Princes • [Foundation (Original Stories) • 3] • (1944) • novelette by Isaac Asimov (variant of The Big and the Little)
• 299 • Forward the Foundation (excerpt) • (1991) • short fiction by Isaac Asimov