Isaac Asimov - Second Foundation stated First Edition 1st Printing 1953 Gnome Pr

Isaac Asimov - Second Foundation stated First Edition 1st Printing 1953 Gnome Press Rare Dust Jacket Science Fiction SciFi Fantasy  First state binding with the boards in blue and the spine stamped in a dark chocolate brown. First state yellow dust jacket with “$2.75” price and 25 titles to the rear panel.   A still presentable example of this exceedingly uncommon first edition of one of Asimov’s most important titles. This was the third volume in the Foundation books. This series won a one time Hugo Award for “Best All-Time Series”.   Condition:  see pics.  Good very good book, good dust jacket with edge wear chipping, see pics. Extremely rare, especially with the dust jacket.  Put the dust jacket in a mylar cover to protect it.   “Down—down—the results can be followed; and all the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy, until Hari Seldon, and very few men thereafter, could really understand one another. Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. Occasionally there were the dim signals from deep within the cavern in which another man was located—so that each might grope toward the other. Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation—there was the hunted fear of man for man, the savage rapacity of man toward