The Robot and the Man de Greenberg, Martin (editor) - 1953

NY: Gnome Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1954. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. DJ has some rubbing and edgewear with numerous chips and small tears; 1/4" piece of at bottom edge of DJ spine missing. Stories by John D. MacDonald, Bernard Wolfe, John S. Browning, A. E. Van Vogt, H. H. Holmes, Lewis Padgett, Joseph E. Kelleam, Lester del Rey, and Robert Moore Williams. .

New York: The Gnome Press, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket. 22 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 251pp. Tan cloth with dark brown cloth spine in dust jacket. Stated first edition. 1/5000 copies. Chipping to jacket spine. The jacket flaps are clipped but original price of $2.95 remains present. Jacket design by Ric Binkley. Anthology collecting 9 stories from "Astounding" and 1 from "Galaxy". Adventures in Science Fiction Series. Reference: website: "Gnome Press: The Complete History and Bibliography" #29.

New York: Gnome Press, [1953]. 8vo. 251, [1] pp. Quarter brown cloth over beige-coloured boards, silver lettering on spine (slight shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art of robots on chess board by Ric Binkley (minor edgewear, creasing, slight chipping head of spine, couple very minor closed tears), still NF/VG copy. First hardcover edition of one of John D. MacDonald’s early science fiction stories on computing and artificial intelligence, “Mechanical Answer,” first published in Astounding Science Fiction (1948). This anthology also includes stories by Lester del Rey, Joseph E. Kelleam, A.E. van Vogt, John Browning, Lewis Padgett, and others.

Gnome Press, 1954-01-01. hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. First edition. Book has some rubbing and notes in the cover. Jacket protected poorly with taped on cellophane. Can be removed. JAcket has some rubbing. Price not clipped.

New York: The Gnome Press, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. BC04C/D Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Jacket is edge worn with several small chips and tears. Pages slightly toned..

New York: The Gnome Press Incorporated Publishers, [1953]. First edition. Lower edge of pages 163-182 creased with some small tears (binding error?), a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with light wear at corner tips and spine ends, a small chip to the lower left front panel. (15474). Octavo, cloth-backed boards. Collects ten stories by John D. MacDonald, Lewis Padgett, H. H. Holmes (Anthony Boucher), A. E. van Vogt, Lester del Rey, and others. Includes "Robots Return" by Robert Moore Williams, "a parable of machine evolution whose robot protagonists, visiting from their home on Mars, cannot believe that flesh creatures could have created them back on Earth ..." - SFE (online).

New York: Gnome Press, 1953. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine Dustjacket. Ric Binkley Dustjacket. First Edition Stated. Beige Boards Stamped In Brown. Very Near Fine, Slight Rubbing At Top And Bottom Of Spine, Slight Foxing To Endpapers,, In A Near Fine Dj With Slight Rubbing, Two 1/4" Closed Tears At Top Of Front Panel, Not Price-Clipped, With Two 3/8" Closed Tears At Top Of Rear Panel And A 1/4" Closed Tear At Bottom Of Rear Flap Fold.

New York: Gnome Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1953. Hardcover. The 4th anthology edition released by Gnome Press in the early 1950's. The theme of this volume being the invention of the robot and it's evolution. Edited by Martin Greenberg. NF book, outline of old pencil note in the front. VG+ or better DJ some chipping at the top of the spine and general edgewear. Now with brodart jacket. Provenance: From the Estate of Dr Stephen Landan, a life-long Sci-Fi fan who regularly attended conventions in USA and UK and who was a longtime member of The World Science Fiction Society; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Gnome Press, 1953. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near fine first edition copy of a collection of robot-themed SF fiction.Publisher's tan and brown cloth with silver embossed to spine. The book is square and tight with a previous owner's name and date on the ffep. Also has previous owner's embossed" From the library of..." to the title page. Otherwise internally clean and unmarked. Jacket has great cover art by Ric Binkley and has not been price clipped. Does have minor wear to extremities and fragmentary loss to the top of the spine. Includes stories by Lester del Rey, John D. MacDonald, A.E. vanVogt, Lewis Padgett and others. Overall, a very nice copy of an uncommon title.