• Publication: Second FoundationPublication Record # 936609
• Author: Isaac Asimov
• Date: 1977-00-00
• ISBN: 0-586-01713-5 [978-0-586-01713-5]
• Publisher: Panther / Granada
• Price:
  £0.60^?£: UK pound
• Pages: 187
• Format:
  pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Cover: Second Foundation (1973) • by Chris Foss
• Notes: Dated 15th printing of the 1964 edition. Title page:

  • "Panther [over] Granada Publishing"

  Copyright page:

  • "Published by Granada Publishing Limited [over] in Panther Books 1964"
  • "Reprinted 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969 (twice), 1971 (twice), [over] 1972, 1973 (twice), 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977"
  • "Second Foundation is based upon published material [over] originally copyrighted by Street & Smith Publications, [over] Inc 1948, 1949"
  • "Copyright © Isaac Asimov 1953"
  • "Granada Publishing Limited [over] Frogmore, St Albans, Herts AL2 2NF"
  • "Made and printed in Great Britain by [over] Cox & Wyman Ltd [over] London, Reading and Fakenham"

  Spine:

  • "Asimov" in light green, "Second Foundation", "Panther", "Granada" all in white, all on black ground.

  Back cover:

  • "Second Foundation" in light green.
  • "Cover illustration by Chris Foss"
  • "U.K. 60p Canada $1.75 Australia $1.75 New Zealand $1.85"
  • "586-01713-5 [over] 3" (same as front cover)

  Pages 9, 11 and 71 are unnumbered. Front cover "Asimov" in white, "Second Foundation" in light green. Chris Foss's boxed "F" signature is visible on the spaceship. This image forms the right part of one continuous artwork. Foss's version of "Foundation" (the left part) and "Foundation and Empire" (the middle) appear on other Panther printings of this era. With Panther printings, noticing differences in the text colours on front / back covers and the spine, can be overlooked in otherwise identical printings. Gloss cover.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 9 • Prologue (Second Foundation) • [Foundation (Original Stories) • 6.9] • (1953) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 11 • Search by the Mule • [Foundation (Original Stories) • 7] • (1948) • novella by Isaac Asimov (variant of Now You See It ...)
• 71 • Search by the Foundation • [Foundation (Original Stories) • 8] • (1949) • novella by Isaac Asimov (variant of ... And Now You Don't)