Flatland Romance Dimensions by Abbott Edwin Square (16 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint Edition. G/none, used, color illustrated stiff paper wraps, 91pp plus ads to rear. 4th printing, Interior clean, no marks, pages toning, binding tight. Shelf rubbing to wraps, no chips or tears, corners slightly rubbed.

Condition: 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.…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Few Drawings. As new unread copy. Soft Cover. 102 fresh pages. 1974 Basil Blackwell Oxford Publishers. Drawings (illustrator).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Sixth edition. Revised with introduction by Banesh Hoffman. Pictorial wrappers. Wraps moderately edgeworn, sunning and small abrasions on the cover, very good.

Condition: Good. Sixth edition, revised. Paper bound. Good condition. Text block is loose in binding, needs to be reglued. Internally clean and tight.

Soft cover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Fourth Revised Edition. Covers are quite dirty with a few stains. Front endpaper missing. Spine qutie worn with tears. Light foxing throughout.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. 102 pages, woodcut text illustrations by the Author. Original printed pictorial paper wraps, , coffee drip to page edges, pencil note inside cover . Wraps lightly browned, rubbed and soiled pages clean text block reglued.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. Offering this satirical early scifi novella, "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions," by Edwin A. Abbott under the pseudonym "A Square," with an introduction by William Garnett. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1944, 5th Edition, Revised. Features a rare, authentic red distributor's stamp on the title page reading: "Agents for the United States BARNES & NOBLE, INC., 105 5th Ave., New York 3, N.Y." which is an Importer/Distributor stamp.The stamp marks the book as an original 1944 transatlantic import. During WWII, Basil Blackwell utilized Barnes & Noble as its exclusive US agent. Cream paper boards with tan pictorial dust jacket, Iine drawings and diagrams in b/w, rough cut pages, pp. 102. Explores the concepts of geometry, dimensions, and social hierarchy through a unique fictional world. Overall condition is Very Good. Binding is secure, jacket is moderately toned. There are several thin "slice marks" on the back cover, almost invisible, which do not cut through the jacket, not do they cut into the cover paper. Interior pages are bright and clean, with only a little darkening at the edges to the early and late few pages, no writing or other marks. A nice copy of this unusual book! [Science Fiction, Victorian Social Satire, Religious Allegory, Math/Geometry, Metaphysics] [A3].…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Third edition of Abbott's satirical novella and an early example of experimental science fiction. The book uses the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to satirise the class and gender hierarchies of Victorian society, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions. The first two editions of Flatland were published in rapid succession in 1884, after which the work went out of print. Blackwell brought it back with this third edition in 1926, forty-two years later. Although the text includes a small number of revisions from the second edition, the book's physical presentation is nearly identical to the earlier editions. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1926. Publisher's original illustrated wraps; pp. xvi, 102. An about very good copy. Wear and toning to wraps with a minor stain to front wrap and text block edge. Front hinge a touch overopened, small owner's inscription to half-title else internally clean. Uncommon.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 4th Edition. Stiff unprinted manila wraps, deckled text block edges, in tan integral (French-style) dust wrapper lettered/illus. in black. Both jacket panels are moderately soiled with fingerprints and toned; binding is cupped and shows a mild lean. xvi,102 pp. Scattered mild soiling/foxing along some fore-edges, interior otherwise clean. Stated 4th edition, revised. Accompanied by an insert for another Blackwell publication, The History of the City of London School 1442-1837-1937 (1937). Exceptionally scarce early edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Illustrations By the Author; viii, 155 pages. Cloth bound in near very good condition; Front upper corners quite worn.

Fourth edition, revised. "With illustrations by the author ." Original pictorial (map of Flatland) buff self-jacketed wrappers, soiled on front cover and badly waterstained on rear (not affecting contents; spine leaning. Ink name and 1945 date on half title; apart from a little foxing, contents clean and tight. A very good copy of this classic inter-dimensional fantasy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. With illustrations by the author. Introduction by William Garnett. A later printing of the third American edition. Previous owner's address label on front paste-down, else very good in a good (four large chips, age toning) dust jacket with the original $1.50 price on the front flap. ; 155 pages.…

Original wrappers. Condition: Very Good. dj. First edition. RARE FIRST EDITION OF ABBOTT'S CLASSIC. "Edwin Abbott's Flatland may be one of the most unclassifiable works of literature ever published. While it is acknowledged to be a classic of early science fiction, a work of Victorian social satire, and a religious allegory, it also presents, through its introduction to higher dimensions, an important contribution to the development of an area of mathematics that was eventually merged into non-Euclidean geometry. Flatland is an unusually effective work that spans disciplines and challenges divisional categories. Since its publication in 1884, the book's popularity has continued today as its readers have embraced it as science fiction, popular science, and metaphysics. Working from the groundwork of philosophical issues raised by Plato's Republic, Flatland merges social satire and geometry to produce a novel situated in two-dimensional space, a believable world populated by memorable inhabitants whose geometric shapes designate their positions in a complex social structure, one that bears some resemblance to the Victorian class structure" (Lila Marz Harper, Flatland). Published pseudonymously by Abbott as "A Square". London: Seeley & Co., 1884. Octavo, original paper wrappers with illustrated vellum jacket. Custom box. Some toning to wrappers; heavy chipping to spine, front joint reinforced; some foxing to endpapers; text very clean. A RARE SURVIVAL: Because of the fragile nature of the format, first editions of Flatland in original condition have become notoriously rare. …

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.…

Condition: Very Good+. 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. …