Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
by Edwin A. Abbott
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- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
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Decatur, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
128 pages. Sixth Edition, Revised with Introduction by Banesh Hoffmann. With Illustrations by the Author, A Square. Very good condition. Text pages are clean with no writing or markings. Original price marked through on front cover and front inside cover, but readable through light ink; previous bookseller's markings to illustrated half title page. Minimal edge wear and slight crease to top corner of front cover. Paperback binding with two staples with cover glued at the spine only. End papers appear to be removed, but binding is strong.
Synopsis
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Writing pseudonymously as "a square", Abbott used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to offer pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture.
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- Bookseller
- Morton Brothers Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000180
- Title
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
- Author
- Edwin A. Abbott
- Illustrator
- Edwin A. Abbott
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Sixth Edition, Revised
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Dover Publications, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Pages
- 128
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- STEM: Science Technology Engineering Mathematics;
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