Fantasia Mathematica
by Fadiman, Clifton (ed.)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Book VG: mild toning/offset to endpapers, else clean, square, tight./DJ VG- : chipping and mild age wear, NOT clipped ($4.95)
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild toning/offset to endpapers, else clean, square, tight./DJ VG- : chipping and mild age wear, NOT clipped ($4.95). 8vo 298pp. stated first printing. from front cover: "Being a set of stories, together with a group of oddments and diversions, all drawn from the universe of mathematics." from front flap: "You will be bored, mathematicians, by these stories. Clifton Fadiman, who collected and edited them, says so himself in his Introduction. You couldn't have better authority than that. The mathematics here is too naive for you. But everyone else--and that means practically all of us--come gather round and be vastly entertained, entranced, and--who knows? --maybe even slightly instructed." #01400.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1336
- Title
- Fantasia Mathematica
- Author
- Fadiman, Clifton (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Book VG: mild toning/offset to endpapers, else clean, square, tight.
- Jacket Condition
- DJ VG- : chipping and mild age wear, NOT clipped ($4.95)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- mathematics, poetry, fable, short stories, anthology, first edition.
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About the Seller
Matthew's Books LLC
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Chattanooga, Tennessee
About Matthew's Books LLC
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Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...