Pebble in the Sky, Isaac Asimov, UK pb 1969

This paperback is Isaac Asimov's novel PEBBLE IN THE SKY published by Sphere Books in the UK in 1969. Book is in reasonable condition, (see picture).  186 pages. Picture is of actual book.

SYNOPSIS: One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, as he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it's the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil, so poor that everyone is sentenced to death at the age of sixty. Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two.