The Flight of Peter Fromm
by Gardner, Martin
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Los Altos, Ca: William Kaufmann Inc, (1973). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 272p octavo, A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Laid in is a 49 line T.L.S. from John Updike to Martin Gardner July 29, 1985. signed by John Updike with his stamped name and address below his signature. A very warm letter beginning thus "...Dear Mr. Gardner: This is a belated fan letter if ever there was one; but I just read "The Flight of Peter Fromm", having been sent a free copy a dozen years ago because you did me the honor of including a poem of mine in it." He continues explaining he didn't want to read while he was writing about a divinity school teacher and a theistic student and was afraid to read his work for fear of making his, ie Updike's unnecessary. "You wonder in print if I am still a Barthian...I like the way Barth writes his letters , as well as his dogmatics -- as firm and warm as Tillich is shifty" ....."Also, thank you for admiring Chesterton, as you also tell us in "Whys of P.S." I turned to him before finding Barth." ......."And I miss your math column in the Scientific American; I couldn't always follow it, but I read it to the end, wheras these new fellows with their computer-think lose me midway, Warm Regards John Updike
Synopsis
Martin Gardner, the creator of Scientific American’s "Mathematical Games" column, which he wrote for more than twenty-five years, is the author of almost one hundred books, including The Annotated Ancient Mariner, Martin Gardner’s Favorite Poetic Parodies, From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley Jr., and Science: Good, Bad and Bogus. For many years he was also a contributing editor to the Skeptical Inquirer.
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- Old New York Book Shop
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- 48576
- Title
- The Flight of Peter Fromm
- Author
- Gardner, Martin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Kaufmann Inc
- Place of Publication
- Los Altos, Ca
- Date Published
- (1973)
- Bookseller catalogs
- MATH AND SCIENCE;
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