Prelude to Foundation

First UK edition. 8vo. 461 pp. Blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; light blue endpapers. Jacket illustration by Tim White. The much less common British edition. Ninth, in chronological terms, of the fourteen Foundation books. Cf. "Author's note" (p. 9-[10]).

Age-toning to page edges, else Very Good.

Prequel to the classic Foundation Saga series, in which Hari Seldon arrives on Trantor to present his paper on psychohistory, and the fate of humanity is sealed.