The secrets of triangle, a mathematical journey
Amherst: Prometheus Books, [2012]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 387, [5]; diagrams throughout, fine, dust jacket with price sticker, else fine. More
Amherst: Prometheus Books, [2012]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 387, [5]; diagrams throughout, fine, dust jacket with price sticker, else fine. More
Oxford: printed by Thomas Combe, printer to the University, Ashmolean Society, 1849. First edition, 8vo, pp. 40, [2]; fine in original printed wrappers. Powell, the Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford and was a colleague of Herschel, Airy and Babbage. "Read to the Ashmolean Society, June 4, 1849." Berkeley, New..... More
New York: Riverhead Books, 2010. First edition, 8vo, pp. [10], 294; green paper covered boards; fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of soiling. With many puzzles produced by Scott Kim. More
New York: Riverhead Books, 2010. First edition, 8vo, pp. [10], 294; text illustrations and puzzles throughout; full green boards; fine, in near fine dust jacket with light edgewear. Inscribed by Kim to fellow puzzle maker and editor of Word Ways magazine Jeremiah Farrell: "To Jerry, Thanks for your help making..... More
The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1965. First edition, 4to, pp. 437, [3]; text diagrams throughout; original cloth in blue printed dust jacket (some soiling); jacket edges chipped and torn, none affecting text; interior mostly very good. Janua Linguarum, Series Practica no. VIII. More
[Amiens: CRDP de l'academie d'Amiens, 2005]. 8vo, pp. 269, [1]; six color plates and text illustrations throughout; pictorial paper boards; label residue on back cover, stain to foredge, not touching text, text otherwise clean and sound, good. Signed by Alain Zalmanski, who contributed the chapter "Jeux de langage." Other contributors..... More
n.p. n.d. 4to, trimmed and measuring 21 x 21.5mm., approx. 100 words, stains from previous mount on verso, else a very good example; in French. Offering apologies on behalf of a Dr. Walker for not having sent Vol. 6 of an unnamed work, and saying that he has been preoccupied..... More
Boca Raton, et al: CRC Press, [2000]. First edition, large 8vo, pp. [4], 1232; teal boards; a couple light scuffs, else fine. More
Mineola NY: Dover Publications, Inc., [2014]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii; red paper covered boards, gilt title, fine in near fine pictorial dust jacket. With recollections of Smullyan as well as examples of his work. Smullyan was a mathematician, magician, concert pianist, and chess writer. More
Oxford [et al.]: Oxford University Press, 1987. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 225, [1]; illustrations throughout, some in color; original pictorial laminate boards; fine copy. Singmaster is best known for his popularization of the Rubik's cube. His Notes on Rubik's Magic Cube (1981) "provided the first mathematical analysis of..... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1859. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 144; diagrams and figures throughout the text; a fine, unopened copy in original blindstamped green cloth, gilt lettering on spine. This copy inscribed by Stephen Spender "24 April '96 / To Kitaj, with thanks and best wishes from..... More
Berkeley and Providence: MSRI and AMS, 2011. 8vo, pp. x, 202, [2]; printed paper covers; fine. Primarily for middle school teachers. "This book consists of ten seminars covering in a rigorous way the fundamental topics in school geometry, including all of the significant topics in high school geometry." With activities..... More
New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, [1990]. First edition, 4to, pp. xiii, [1], 354; color illustrations throughout; full black cloth, gilt title on spine; fine in fine pictorial dust jacket; signed by Schattschneider on title page. Schattschneider is a retired mathematician and an expert in geometry and tiling patterns..... More
Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company, and London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1898. 8vo, pp. [8], 149, [3]; full red cloth, gilt title on cover and spine; ex-library, with spine label and stamps on title page; spine splitting at foot, boards toned, text clean and sound, very good..... More
Providence: American Mathematical Society, [2013]. Large 8vo, pp. xiv, 523, [7]; yellow and blue boards; corner bumped, else fine. Signed at the back of the book by three mathematicians who contributed to the advancement of combinatorial game theory: Richard Guy, John Conway, and Elwyn Berlekamp. Volume 146 in the Graduate..... More
Lisboa: Associacao Ludus, 2016. 4to, pp. [4], 177, [1]; illustrated throughout, much in color; short crease at the bottom of the front wrapper, else fine throughout. More
Boston et al. Pearson, [2013]. Fourth edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 409, [1]; pictorial boards, fine. This book "is designed to introduce readers to the overall themes and methodology of mathematics through the detailed study of one particular facet: number theory." More
Philadelphia: Robert Desilver & Thomas Desilver, 1821. 8vo, pp. vi, [1], 8-516; 3 engraved plates (2 folding) at the back; contemporary full mottled sheep, gilt-ruled spine, black morocco label; boards rubbed, joints cracked, text block clean. American Imprints 5267. More
London: printed for Wingrave and Collingwood [et al.], 1818. 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 528; 3 engraved folding plates, numerous figures and diagrams in the text; later gray buckram-backed marbled boards, paper label on spine; the bottom of the first half of the text block is dampstained and cracking, and the..... More
Glasgow: In aedibus Academicis, excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis Academiae typographi, 1776. First edition, 4to, pp. [8], x, 594, [2], 34, [2], 33, [1], 23; without the blank leaves b2 and I6; engraved frontispiece portrait (slightly spotted and offset), numerous geometrical figures in the text (some with minor offsetting); contemporary..... More
London: South Bank University, 1995. Second printing, 11.75" x 8.25"; pp. 22; blue printed paper covers backed in black tape; signed by the author to fellow Gardnerian, mathematician, and puzzler, Jeremiah Farrell, fine. An index of all of the columns Gardner contributed to Scientific American, with cross references to the..... More
New Jersey etc. World Scientific, [2015]. Galley proof, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 234; green printed paper wrappers; light crease on lower wrappers, else fine. Signed by the author on half-title page. Over 200 problems composed largely for columns in various papers and television programs. More
New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, [1939]. First edition thus, 3 volumes in 1, 8vo, pp. [4, viii, 184; vii, [1], 220; iii, [1], 155, [1]; illustrations throughout each of the three texts; fine copy in publisher's blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; in a slightly worn dust jacket with a few..... More
[Beverly Hills: published by the author], 1993. Second edition, small quarto, 77" x 8.75"; pp. [1], 188, [3]; printed blue self-covers, comb bound with plastic protector leaves; signed by Slocum on title page, fine. Jerry Slocum amassed the largest puzzle collection of the US, which served as the seed of..... More
New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc, [2001]. Large 8vo, pp. 96; 88 illustrated puzzles; printed paper covered boards; fine, dust jacket near fine with a touch of sticker residue. More