Foundation's Edge
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Overview:
- Title: Foundation's Edge
- Author: Isaac Asimov
- Year: 1982
- ISBN-10: 0918372100
- Publisher: Whispers Press
- Price: $50.00
- Pages: xi+366+[1]
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Foundation's Edge
- Notes:
- Limited to 1,026 copies.
1,000 numbered copies signed by Asimov and Stuart David Schiff (designer and publisher).
26 lettered copies reserved for the press. - Gold marbled endpapers.
- Gilt page tops.
- Whispers Press device blind-stamped on back cover.
- Not issued in dustjacket.
- "FIRST EDITION" on copyright page.
- Month from Locus #263 (December 1982) who states this was published after the Doubleday edition.
The review slip for the Doubleday edition had a publication date of 1982-10-08 but the Catalog of Copyright entry (TX0000998358) states that it was actually published on 1982-09-20. Which would make the Doubleday edition the true first.
In addition, the Whispers Press edition used the Doubleday typesetting (only adding their own false title, title/copyright and limitation/signature pages). - No BLIC.
- No LCCN.
- There is an OCLC entry for this ISBN (8473906) but it refers to the Doubleday edition.
- Limited to 1,026 copies.