Publication: The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying

Publication: The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of TryingPublication Record # 38970
Author: Isaac Asimov
Date: 1972-09-00
ISBN: 0-385-03979-4 [978-0-385-03979-6]
Publisher: Doubleday
Price:
$10.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
Pages: viii+540
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: COLLECTION
Cover: The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying by Barry Kiperman
Notes:
- "First edition" on copyright page.
- Cover artist credited on back flap of dustjacket.
- Gutter code "N33" (upside down) on page 540 indicating mid-August, 1972 printing date. Gutter code "O40" on page 540 indicating a reprint date of October 1973. First edition statement removed, but $10.00 at top of front flap retained Light gray cloth with title in blue letters on the spine.
- The essay titled 'Biographical Comments' includes the untitled introduction/comments from page 1 to 9, and also includes comments interspersed between each story. The complete 'Biographical Comments' appears on pages: 1-9, 24-27, 40-42, 57-58, 75-78, 93-95, 135-138, 158-160, 171-173, 191-193, 215-216, 232, 254-255, 266-267, 281, 292-293, 307-308, 318-321, 337-338, 363-367, 370-377, 403-404, 420-421, 442-447, 464-465, 473-476, 498, and 532-536.
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 482538
- Reginald-1: 00552

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Collection Title: The Early Asimov • (1972) • collection by Isaac Asimov

Contents (view Concise Listing)

1 • Biographical Comments (The Early Asimov) • [Asimov's Essays: Own Work] • (1972) • essay by Isaac Asimov
10 • The Callistan Menace • (1940) • short story by Isaac Asimov
28 • Ring Around the Sun • (1940) • short story by Isaac Asimov
43 • The Magnificent Possession • (1940) • short story by Isaac Asimov
59 • Trends • (1939) • short story by Isaac Asimov
79 • The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use • (1939) • short story by Isaac Asimov
96 • Black Friar of the Flame • (1942) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
139 • Half-Breed • [Half-Breed • 1] • (1940) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
161 • The Secret Sense • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov
174 • Homo Sol • [Homo Sol • 1] • (1940) • short story by Isaac Asimov
194 • Half-Breeds on Venus • [Half-Breed • 2] • (1940) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
217 • The Imaginary • [Homo Sol • 2] • (1942) • short story by Isaac Asimov
233 • Heredity • (1941) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
256 • History • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov
268 • Christmas on Ganymede • (1942) • short story by Isaac Asimov
282 • The Little Man on the Subway • (1950) • short story by Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl [as by Isaac Asimov and James MacCreigh]
294 • The Hazing • [Homo Sol • 3] • (1942) • short story by Isaac Asimov
309 • Super-Neutron • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov
322 • Not Final! • [Jovians • 1] • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov
339 • Legal Rites • (1950) • novelette by Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl [as by Isaac Asimov and James MacCreigh]
368 • Time Pussy • [Probability Zero] • (1942) • short story by Isaac Asimov
378 • Author! Author! • (1964) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
405 • Death Sentence • (1943) • short story by Isaac Asimov
422 • Blind Alley • [Foundation Universe] • (1945) • short story by Isaac Asimov
448 • No Connection • (1948) • short story by Isaac Asimov
466 • The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline • [Thiotimoline • 1] • (1948) • short story by Isaac Asimov
477 • The Red Queen's Race • (1949) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
499 • Mother Earth • [Elijah Baley / R. Daneel Olivaw] • (1949) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
537 • Appendix - The Sixty Stories of the Campbell Years • [Asimov's Essays: Own Work] • essay by Isaac Asimov

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Clute/Nicholls	Verified	Bluesman	2013-04-05 20:22:29
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Reginald1	Verified	Bluesman	2013-04-05 20:22:29
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OCLC/Worldcat	Verified	Bluesman	2013-04-05 20:22:29

Publication: The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying

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