Book Octavo, hardcover, near fine in VG orange dj with black and whjite

Book Octavo, hardcover, near fine in VG orange dj with black and whjite lettering on anemometer. 269 pp. --a collection of twenty-one short stories that run the gamut from humorous to profound. Included with the stories are small introductions by Isaac Asimov. Two of the stories, "Belief" and "Ideas Die Hard", were written in the 1950's. The former is a charming story about a physicist who finds he can levitate. The latter is a good but self admitted out of date story about travel to the moon. The other nineteen stories were written in the late seventies and early eighties. They cover a variety of topics including alien traders, computer illiteracy, the creation of the universe, the last shuttle leaving earth, a clothes designer etc.