Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Hofstadter, Douglas R
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Madison, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
New York: Basic Books, 1979. First Edition, Eleventh Printing. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. [5], vi-xxi, [3], 3-777, [1] pp. Very Good+ / Very Good+. Gilt spine-titled brown cloth on board. Unclipped dust jacket, showing price of $18.50. Top edge of case slightly faded. Front board slightly bowed. Dust jacket spine slightly creased at head and faded with some fading along left edge of front panel. Dust jacket now in protective archival cover. 1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning "metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll" published when the author was still an Assistant Professor at Indiana University.
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- Bookseller
- Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000040
- Title
- Gödel, Escher, Bach
- Author
- Hofstadter, Douglas R
- Format/Binding
- Brown cloth on board
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Eleventh Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Pages
- 777
- Size
- 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Philosophy;
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Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
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Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
About Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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