"Foundation and Earth" by Isaac Asimov, published by Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1986. First Edition, First Printing: '1986' is imprinted on the title page, "First Edition" is stated on the copyright page; printing code "BB27" on page 356. Rear dust jacket flap has "1086" [i.e. 10/86 date], and front flap has $16.95 price. Dust jacket art by Alan Wallerstein.

Original dust jacket [a little upper edge wear and inside staining]; dark blue hard boards, cloth spine with gilt lettering, 6.1/4" x 8.1/2"; Asimov's book titles with Doubleday imprinted in white lettering on the endpapers, 356 pages, slightly soiled vertical outer page edges, very good condition.

Several centuries after the events of Second Foundation, two citizens of the Foundation search for Earth, the legendary planet where humans are said to have originated. Even less is known about Earth than was the case in Foundation, when scholars still seem to know the location of 'Sol'. The story follows on from Foundation's Edge, but can be read as a complete work in itself.

Councilman Golan Trevize, historian Janov Pelorat, and Blissenobiarella of the planet Gaia (introduced in Foundation's Edge) set out on a journey to find humanity's ancestral planet-Earth. The purpose of the journey is to settle Trevize's doubt of his decision, at the end of Foundation's Edge, to embrace the all-encompassing noosphere of Galaxia. Golan Trevize, former Councilman of the First Foundation, has chosen the future, and it is Gaia. A superorganism, Gaia is a holistic planet with a common consciousness so intensely united that every dewdrop, every pebble, every being, can speak for all-and feel for all. It is a realm in which privacy is not only undesirable, it is incomprehensible.

But is it the right choice for the destiny of mankind? While Trevize feels it is, that is not enough. He must know. Trevize believes the answer lies at the site of humanity's roots: fabled Earth . . . if it still exists. For no one is sure where the planet of Gaia's first settlers is to be found in the immense wilderness of the Galaxy. Nor can anyone explain why no record of Earth has been preserved, no mention of it made anywhere in Gaia's vast world-memory. It is an enigma Trevize is determined to resolve, and a quest he is determined to undertake, at any cost...

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