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Author:	Isaac Asimov
Title:	I, Robot
Publisher:	Gnome Press
Country:	USA
Date:	1950
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Science Fiction, Fiction
Total Editions:	28
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ppint. 24th Jun 2018		collection of four novelettes and six short stories first edition cover art by ed cartier cover price $2.50 (front flap of d-j) also published by gnome press in card covers, possibly the same year, possibly simultaneously with the hardcover, possibly to shift printed and made, but unfinished, books the following year (1951) as no note of a later printing in their indica, but also possibly a 1951 printing from the same plates. same cover art by ed cartier.



zabadak 24th Feb 2016		I have read loads of Asimov. This one is a book of short stories (as is the sequel, "The Rest Of The Robots"), largely, if not completely, from the same "universe" as the "Foundation" novels. The man was an absolute genius! :happy:



Magic Marmalade 23rd Feb 2016		I've always intended to read Asimov... Along with Arthur C. Clarke, and Philip K. Dick, he has the the most claim to the title "Mr Science Fiction". Between the three of them they essentially have considered and mapped the future long before any of us have gotten there. They always bring the big ideas to their works.



MICKDOOM67 7th Dec 2022		Back cover image added. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



HOOK45 SUBS 20th May 2021		Colectia Science Fiction 6 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 13th Mar 2021		@jimeß's cover image added 2019 is from the first canadian printing, detailed below, whose cover was (and states) litho'd in canada (= printed by off-set lithography in canada). it was apparently a legal requirement that a book distributed in canada be printed in canada - whether to avoid liability for import duties, yr hmbl srppnt. knoweth not. whatever the reason, this requirement was - apparently successfully - interpreted by other publishers, and later also by fawcett, as being satisfied by their having only the carcass of the book printed, and stated to have been printed, in canada - whereupon they switched to shipping parts of print-run of the merkin-printed covers of their books to their canadian printers. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 13th Mar 2021		likely simultaneous with, or shortly after the near-identical 8/1970 first fawcett crest merkin mmpb from which it shares cat#, cover art, etc. q.v. cover art by john berkey (signed berkey) cover price 75¢ undated save for copyright year 192pp.including titles, indica etc, end pp. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 29th Dec 2019		near-identical first fawcett crest mmpb printings sharing cover art by john berkey (signed "berkey") cover price 75¢ 192pp. including titles, indica etc. but cover typography differs slightly: canadadian-printed (both covers and book carcass) bears older fawcett crest logo & cat# top left corner, and bears statement litho'd in canada; indica states printed in canada merkin-printed & generally distributed copies bears newer, coronet-outline-free fawcett crest logo & cat# centre top indica states that it was merkin-printed .. undated fawcett crest printing differs: cat# M1966 cover price 95¢ .. .. undated fawcett crest printing differs: cat# P2355 cover price $1.25 .. .. undated fawcett crest printing differs: cat# Q2829 cover price $1.50 (as indicated by Q cat# prefix) .. .. undated near-identical 21st° fawcett crest mmpb printing differs: cat# Q2829 stated to be its isbn in indica ° indica publishing history number-string reported to give this undated near-identical 22nd fawcett crest mmpb printing differs: cat# Q2829 stated to be its isbn in indica indica publishing history number-string 30 - 22 .. undated 25th fawcett crest mmpb printing (seen estimated to be c. 1980-81 from a front p. advertising offer) isbn 0-449-23949-7 cover price $2.25 indica publishing history number-string of 35 - 25 undated 26th fawcett crest mmpb printing cover art by john berkey (retained throughout these printings as cover typography changes) isbn 0-449-23949-7 cover price $2.25 indica publishing history number-string 35 - 26 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



JimEss SUBS ● 29th Dec 2019		Added a front cover variant. First time I've run across that here, but probably not the last. Added the back cover and month also. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 23rd Oct 2019		if necessary to unlink or delink it from the *different, non-identical books* to which it is currently linked, this should be re-titled, "i, robot (greatly abridged)". . . (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 13th Aug 2019		publisher grayson and grayson should^W has been unified with publisher grayson & grayson as they're one and the same. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 15th Jun 2019		panther books ltd. first printing 1968 near-identical reprints: second & third printings: reprinted 1968, reprinted 1969 (detailed differences?) refer to indica publishing history to distinguish which is held, including: fourth printing: reprinted 1969 (2nd) cover price 5/-, australia 80c, new zealand 75c, south africa 60c fifth printing: reprinted 1971 cover price 30p (6/-), australia 95c, new zealand 90c, south africa 75c, canada 95c sixth printing: reprinted 1972 (details?) seventh printing: reprinted 1973 cover price 30p, australia 95c, new zealand 95c, south africa 75c, singapore $3.00, canada 95c eighth printing: reprinted 1974 (details?) ninth printing: reprinted 1975 replaces cat# on cover with sbn it was derived from 586 02532 4 cover price 40p, australia $1.20, new zealand $1.20, canada $1.50 tenth printing: reprinted 6/1977 cover price 60p (this printing's data from locus #203, 8/1977) eleventh printing 1978 (details?) twelfth printing 1979 (details?) thirteenth printing: reprinted 1981 granada replaces panther in some/most positions, including claiming in indica publishing history, first published by granada 1968, which is untrue) cover price£1.25, australia $4.95, new zealand $5.25 fourteenth printing 1982, fifteenth 1982 (2nd), sixteenth 1984, seventeenth printing reprinted 1984 (2nd) cover price £1.95, new zealand $6.95 still panther science fiction across top of front cover .. .. twenty-fifth printing: reprinted 10/1993 harpercollinspublishers still on panther books isbn cover art by chris moore cover price £4.99 256pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising .. .. third printing of harpercollinsvoyager, chris moore-covered, panther books-isbnned p/b reprinted ? cover price £5.99 .. .. (a b-format or yuppieback ''harpercollinsvoyager classic'' on different isbn) .. .. pth printing (given as 18th printing, which is impossible) reprinted 8/2004 harpercollins voyager still on panther books isbn cover art ? cover price £6.99 .. .. (2013 voyager classic reprint again on different isbn) .. .. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 15th Jun 2019		n.b. indica publishing history is incorrect: it omits the 1952 first uk edition, grayson & grayson h/cvr, q.v. and also the first uk p/b edition, the abridged digit book cat# D.164. (it also omits mention of the 3/1954 sfbc #7 h/cvr edition, but this was more understandable as sidgwick & jackson's (later, phoenix house's) sfbc editions were not on sale to the general public, only to members of the - postal - science fiction book club.) (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 10th Jan 2019		still using the isbn extended from the sbn extended from the first 1968 panther books edition/printing's core cat# 2532, (in 0-586-02532-4) that truly fine merkin, rupert "the dirty digger" murdoch having added collins to his swag-bag after they'd bought granada publishing, granada group having swallowed up panther books, who'd started off as an imprint of hamilton & co. (staffs.) . . . (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 10th Jan 2019		drops fictional introduction written for the gnome press first edition and also two of the four novelettes: *not* therefore, identical with *any* of the books of this title it is bookcatlinked to, and should be unlinked or delinked therefrom. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 10th Jan 2019		mostly reprint collection of four novelettes and six short stories, one - the fictional introduction - original to the gnome press first edition of this. number in isbn10 field is the sbn9 borne on the back cover of this tenth panther books edition/printing. cover art by dennis rolfe (uncredited, attribution from 1968 first panther books p/b) cover price 60p, canada $1.75, australia $1.75, new zealand $1.85 so should be re-flagged "international" according to respected moderator's rule 208pp. including titles, indica etc, end p. advertising (first uk edition grayson & grayson hardcover 1952) (first uk paperback digit books D-164 1958 abridged, dropping two novelettes and one shirt story) (this comment is from another edition of this book)