Publication: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976, Garden City
First edition. Inscribed on the title page "To Steve and Elyse, Isaac Asimov, 3 July 1981." Fine, bright copy in bright fresh dust jacket. The Widowers is a stag club that meets monthly and consists of Avalon, a patent attorney; Drake, a research chemist; Gonzalo, a painter; Halsted, a teacher; Rubin, an author; and Trumbull, an intelligence analyst. They rotate the office of host; each month's host brings a guest for an evening of dinner, conversation, and grilling, and each eventually produces a problem of some kind for the Widowers to try to solve. The seventh Widower - Henry, the waiter - always produces the solution after the other six have batted the problem around awhile. This collection of short stories are all book-related.
Inventory Number: 52732