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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.

HARDCOVER. Zustand: Near Fine. Frank Mayo (illustrator). Hardcover edition. 155pp, publisher's notes laid in, small octavo leatherbound hardcover, raised bands to spine, gilt titles and decor, paper endpapers, silk bookmark sewn in, all edges gilt. boards clean and sharp, tight binding, interior clean. Collector's Edition, Bound in Genuine Leather.

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.

Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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.

First edition of this early experimental science fiction novel. "At once a lesson in higher dimensional geometry, a social satire, and an expression of religious principle, this work gives lasting testimony to Abbott's genius as a teacher and to his literary and moral imagination" (ODNB). Abbott was the headmaster of the City of London School for nearly a quarter of a century, his innovative methods winning the school "the distinction of providing the highest intellectual training". Essentially a mathematical fantasia describing a society of two-dimensional geometrical shapes - the denizens of Flatland - the book is dedicated "To The Inhabitants of Space in General. by a Humble Native of Flatland In the Hope that Even as he was Initiated into the Mysteries of Three Dimensions Having been previous conversant with Only Two So the Citizens of that Celestial Region May aspire yet higher and higher To the Secrets of Four Five or even Six Dimensions Thereby contributing To the Enlargement of The Imagination". After Einstein's publication of his general theory of relativity, with its suggestion of a fourth dimension, the book was reappraised for its imaginative yet scientific engagement with the idea of extra dimensions. Locke, p. 203; A classic of the topological sub-genre of science fiction. Octavo. Illustrated throughout by the author. Original plain card wrappers. With pictorial japon jacket. 1918 ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper of one J. Sacheverell Salmond (1882-1958), and 1963 ownership inscription of one J. F. de Ledesma. Pencil annotation to title page by previous owner. A little loss to spine, inner hinges neatly repaired; jacket spine and edges neatly restored not affecting design, panels slightly rubbed and toned: a very good copy in like jacket.

Zustand: Good. First American Edition. First American edition of the classic mathematical fantasy novel. Bound in publisher's original pictorial mustard cloth over semi-flexible boards, front panel stamped in black, spine panel stamped in gold, all edges stained red. Good. Light wear to cloth at edges, darkening to spine and soiling and scuffing to rear cover. Former owner details to front free endpaper, several geometric pencil drawings to rear endsheet and blanks, pages tanned. A novel unlike any other--a comical (albeit misogynistic) literary lesson in mathematics and a satire of Victorian society all rolled into one.