Jun 17, 2015 - Sale 2388

Sale 2388 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
[ABBOTT, EDWIN A.]. Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions. By A Square. Illustrations by the author. 12mo, original flexible pictorial yellow cloth, spine gilt-lettered, all edges stained red, light overall soiling, mild rubbing to spine tips; discreet ownership label tipped to front pastedown corner, fore-edge chip on penultimate leaf, housed in 1/2 cloth folding case. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1885

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first american edition. An uncommonly clean, sound copy. A signal text in positing an extra-dimensional apprehension of the world, a self-awareness that came to characterize the modernist and post-modernist perspective.