1986 Isaac Asimov Futuredays Jean Marc Côté 1st Edition London Virgin Books Isaac Asimov, Jean Marc Côté (Illustrator) Rare Book Room

Text by Isaac Asimov. Illustrations by Jean Marc Côté. Futuredays. A Nineteenth-Century Vision of the Year 2000. London: A Lucy-Carroll Book, Virgin Books, 1986. First Edition. Original dust jacket, 96 p. Original teal cloth binding measures 9.25 x 8 , 8vo. In very good condition. Dust jacket: lightly rubbed at edges and corners; small spot of soiling at bottom edge of front cover. Teal cloth boards normally scuffed at edge and corners. Head of spine bumped. Gilt lettering bright and clean. Text-block clean. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. In 1899, Jean Marc Côté, a French commercial artist, was commissioned to produce illustrations for a series of cigarette cards to coincide with celebrations being held throughout France to mark the turn of the century. But, before the cards could be distributed, the company that commissioned them went out of business, leaving behind just one complete set of cards. The book shows about 40 of these cards. In addition to publishing the images for the first time, Asimov offered commentary about which drawings remained implausibly farfetched, which ones were more representative of the realities of modern life, and the difficulties of making such predictions. First Edition. (London, Hardcover). RAREB1986CPQT - 10/25 - HK2771