The Amidextrous Universe Left, Right, and the Fall of Parity

New York, NY: Basic Books, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1964. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper. The text pages are clean and bright. Both front and rear endpapers have some beginning foxing to the edges. The dust jacket has several smallish edge tears and nicks along with some ground-in dirt and rubbing. "Instances of left-right symetry, a kind of mirroring effect, appear throughout the universe - from the vast reaches of the cosmos to the microscopic particles, atoms, molecules, and crystals that compose all substances." (from Wikipedia) "Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914 – May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature – especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He was also a leading authority on Lewis Carroll. The Annotated Alice, which incorporated the text of Carroll's two Alice books, was his most successful work and sold over a million copies. He had a lifelong interest in magic and illusion and in 1999, MAGIC magazine named him as one of the "100 Most Influential Magicians of the Twentieth Century". He was a prolific and versatile author, publishing more than 100 books. " (from Wikipedia) .