Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. With Illustrations by the Author, A SQUARE

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Sale 447: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#447) 02/14/2011 1:00 PM PST Closed
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Lot #1Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. With Illustrations by the Author, A SQUARE

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Sale 447: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#447) 02/14/2011 1:00 PM PST Closed
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Title:

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. With Illustrations by the Author, A SQUARE

Author:

[Abbott, Edwin A.]

Place Published:

London

Publisher:

Seeley & Co.

Date Published:

1884

Description:

viii, 100 pp. 8½x7, pictorial parchment wrappers. First Edition.

Scarce first edition of an influential work of satire and mathematical fiction. A tale of a two-dimensional world.

Condition:

Parchment paper covers fairly darkened and worn with three of the turn-ins separated but laid in; split to vellum at rear panel and along spine; endpapers foxed; occasional foxing and finger soiling to text, very good.

Item#:

213696

Headline:

E.A. Abbott's Flatland, a geometric fantasy 1884
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