THE FOUNDATION TRILOGY; FOUNDATION; FOUNDATION AND THE EMPIRE; SECOND FOUNDATION.

First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Three volumes. Publisher's original quarter buckram and paper covered boards with black titles to the spine and illustrated upper boards. Housed in the slipcase. Printed on Abbey Wove paper. Illustrated throughout with a frontispiece and six full page colour plates in each volume by Alex Wells. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine, structurally sound slipcase.

This newly illustrated edition follows the text of the 1982 Doubleday edition, 'The Foundation Trilogy', with minor emendations. Originally published as a series of short stories and novellas by Astounding Magazine from 1942-1950 and later in book form by Gnome Press from 1951-1953. The Foundation Trilogy won the Hugo Award for 'Best All-Time Series' in 1966.