Gödel, Escher, Bach
by Hofstadter, Douglas R
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
-
Madison, Indiana, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Basic Books, 1979. First Edition, Eleventh Printing. Hardcover. Brown cloth on board. Very Good+/Very Good+. Small quarto. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. [5], vi-xxi, [3], 3-777, [1] pp. Gilt spine-titled brown cloth on board. Unclipped dust jacket, showing price of $18.50. Top edge of case slightly faded. Front board slightly bowed. Dust jacket spine slightly creased at head and faded with some fading along left edge of front panel. Dust jacket now in protective archival cover. 1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning "metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll" published when the author was still an Assistant Professor at Indiana University.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000040
- Title
- Gödel, Escher, Bach
- Author
- Hofstadter, Douglas R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover. Brown cloth on board
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Eleventh Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy;
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Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2008
Madison, Indiana
About Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Village Lights opened as a brick-and-mortar shop in November of 2008, a "mom & pop" business, locally owned and independent, with the proprietors, Nathan Montoya and Anne Vestuto, living above the shop. For fifteen years, as a full-service general bookstore, we offered a carefully curated selection of quality used and new books.
In January of 2024, Village Lights transitioned to a rare and antiquarian book shop located on the second floor of our building. We now offer a modest, but growing, eclectic selection of rare, antiquarian, and out-of-print books, with strength in modern firsts and signed copies. We also sell handmade letterpress books and broadsides from Larkspur Press.
We carefully grade our books in accordance with IOBA Book Condition Definitions (https://www.ioba.org/conditions-definitions), describe them using standard ABAA terminology (https://www.abaa.org/glossary), and painstakingly package them to prevent damage in transit. We value direct communication, so please feel free to call if you have questions about our listings or to confirm that an item is still on hand.
We invite you to visit our website or make an appointment to visit us on Main Street in the heart of downtown Madison, Indiana, the country's largest contiguous National Historic Landmark District and a Designated Indiana Cultural District, on the banks of the beautiful Ohio River.
In January of 2024, Village Lights transitioned to a rare and antiquarian book shop located on the second floor of our building. We now offer a modest, but growing, eclectic selection of rare, antiquarian, and out-of-print books, with strength in modern firsts and signed copies. We also sell handmade letterpress books and broadsides from Larkspur Press.
We carefully grade our books in accordance with IOBA Book Condition Definitions (https://www.ioba.org/conditions-definitions), describe them using standard ABAA terminology (https://www.abaa.org/glossary), and painstakingly package them to prevent damage in transit. We value direct communication, so please feel free to call if you have questions about our listings or to confirm that an item is still on hand.
We invite you to visit our website or make an appointment to visit us on Main Street in the heart of downtown Madison, Indiana, the country's largest contiguous National Historic Landmark District and a Designated Indiana Cultural District, on the banks of the beautiful Ohio River.
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- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...