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![]() The book business appears to be in bad shape. The edition I got of those Russians is badly translated; it's like a German with poor knowledge of both Russian and Dutch that did the work; it's riddled with expressions that don't exist in either of those but do in German. It's also clearly not proofread; it's full of silly things such as 'ais' for 'als', 'l8' instead of '18' and so on.
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#83
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![]() Did you check whether it's not a 1st edition ?
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![]() It doesn't say oddly enough. Copyright 1951 though.
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![]() They may very well be then. Edit : are they by Gnome Press ?
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![]() It's Doubleday.
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![]() That would appear to have been the distributor for Gnome. I would do some further research into this if I were you. Or if you could post a picture of the book and/or any cataloguing number it has, I'd be happy to do that.
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Copyright 1951 by Isaac Asimov FOUNDATION is based upon published material originally copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications, Inc. All Rights Reserved Only short passages from this book for editorial usage may be reporoduced without prior permissions. Printed in the United States of America Then in one other spot it just says : Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, New York |
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![]() Simultaneously reading Dutch (or rather German-corrupted dumbass-edited pseudo-Dutch*) and French (yes, Sucre, we're talking Proust here) and English (other books and forums) has one big drawback. I've never had to look up so many English words.
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![]() My last two books:
Sebastian Haffner, Von Bismarck zu Hitler http://www.amazon.de/Von-Bismarck-Hi...5239735&sr=8-6 Helmut Schmidt, Ausser Dienst - Eine Bilanz http://www.amazon.de/Ausser-Dienst-B...5240083&sr=1-1 Both are probably only available in German I'm afraid. But they are a really interesting read if you are interested in German history/politics. |
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