A square abbott edwin (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: FINE. Hardcover. An unabridged hardcover edition of this classic work which is a fictional introduction to the concept of spaces - flat, lines, three-dimensional. Includes the original illustrations by the author and a reproduction of the original title page, the 1884 Preface to the Second Edition, and an 1952 Introduction by Banesh Hoffmann. xii, 83 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.…

Zustand: New. In.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Sixth edition. Revised with introduction by Banesh Hoffman. Pictorial wrappers. Wraps moderately edgeworn, sunning and small abrasions on the cover, very good.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. Offering this satirical early scifi novella, "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions," by Edwin A. Abbott under the pseudonym "A Square," with an introduction by William Garnett. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1944, 5th Edition, Revised. Features a rare, authentic red distributor's stamp on the title page reading: "Agents for the United States BARNES & NOBLE, INC., 105 5th Ave., New York 3, N.Y." which is an Importer/Distributor stamp.The stamp marks the book as an original 1944 transatlantic import. During WWII, Basil Blackwell utilized Barnes & Noble as its exclusive US agent. Cream paper boards with tan pictorial dust jacket, Iine drawings and diagrams in b/w, rough cut pages, pp. 102. Explores the concepts of geometry, dimensions, and social hierarchy through a unique fictional world. Overall condition is Very Good. Binding is secure, jacket is moderately toned. There are several thin "slice marks" on the back cover, almost invisible, which do not cut through the jacket, not do they cut into the cover paper. Interior pages are bright and clean, with only a little darkening at the edges to the early and late few pages, no writing or other marks. A nice copy of this unusual book! [Science Fiction, Victorian Social Satire, Religious Allegory, Math/Geometry, Metaphysics] [A3].…

Illustrations By the Author; viii, 155 pages. Cloth bound in near very good condition; Front upper corners quite worn.

Third edition. 8vo. 217x175mm. pp.xvi, 102, [2bl]. Original wrappers, some slight wear to extremities but otherwise in very good condition throughout and internally excellent. Protected by a transparent plastic cover. The first two editions of Flatland appeared in quick succession in 1884 but the book then fell out of print. Blackwell issued this third edition forty two years later. Textually it is has a few revisions from the second edition but its appearance is almost exactly the same as the earlier ones. It contains the celebrated preface from the second edition in which Abbott defended himself from criticisms aimed at the first edition. It also has an introduction by the physicist William Garnett who was a pupil of Abbott's at The City of London School.…

Third edition. 8vo. 217x175mm. pp.xvi, 102, [2bl]. Original wrappers, some slight wear to extremities but otherwise in very good condition throughout and internally excellent. Protected by a transparent plastic cover. The first two editions of Flatland appeared in quick succession in 1884 but the book then fell out of print. Blackwell issued this third edition forty two years later. Textually it is has a few revisions from the second edition but its appearance is almost exactly the same as the earlier ones. It contains the celebrated preface from the second edition in which Abbott defended himself from criticisms aimed at the first edition. It also has an introduction by the physicist William Garnett who was a pupil of Abbott's at The City of London School.…

Zustand: Very Good+. dj. First Edition. First edition, first printing. viii, 100. Bound in publisher's plain stiff wraps in original pictorial Japon jacket. Very Good+ with heavy toning and light soiling to jacket, small chips to jacket corners, and offsetting from jacket folds to facing pages. Penciled bookseller inscriptions and elegantly unreadable signatures to verso of front cover and facing page. Light scattered foxing throughout, confined chiefly to margins. An uncommonly good copy of this rare and fragile book. Abbott's early science fiction novella satirized Victorian social hierarchy while teaching higher dimensional geometry, introducing some aspects of Albert Einstein's theories of relativity while Einstein himself was still a small boy. First published November 1884 in a small print run, the book has remained an underground favorite ever since. …