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Flatland : a romance of many dimensions

Title: Flatland : a romance of many dimensions / by Edwin Abbott Abbott (Square).
Author: Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926.
Publication: San Francisco : Arion Press, 1980.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KP+ (Arion) 87-13	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll+ SciFi A23 1980	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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[116] p. : ill. (some col.); 36 cm.

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Genre/Form

Aluminum bindings (Binding) – United States – 20th century.
Metal.
Aluminum (Metal).
Bookbinding (Binding) – Metal bindings.

Note

"Flatland revisited: introduction," by Ray Bradbury: p. [3-8].
"The eighteenth American edition"--Printer's note, p. [2].
Printed on double leaves, i.e. on rectos of two series of sheets 36 x 36 cm. joined end to end and the two resulting strips joined back to back to form a double strip folded accordion-style, yielding two series of pages 36 x 18 cm. Most text blocks are double-page.
The hand-colored ill. incorporate slits and cutouts revealing hand-colored (gray) areas on the blank verso of the underlying strip.
Binding, publisher's, by Q-Rolo Sheet Metal Products, of aluminum: the first and last leaves of the double strip are joined to aluminum panels and inserted in a hinged frame.

Call Number

*KP+ (Arion) 87-13

LCCN

82465333

OCLC

NYPG87-B23773

Author

Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926.

Title

Flatland : a romance of many dimensions / by Edwin Abbott Abbott (Square).

Imprint

San Francisco : Arion Press, 1980.

Local Note

"The seventh book of the Arion Press. The edition is limited to 275 copies for sale"--Colophon. No. 107, signed by the illustrator/director of the Press, Andrew Hoyem, and by Ray Bradbury.

Berg Collection copy, no. 250, donated by Carter Burden [?] (ca. 1993) ; signed by Andrew Hoyem and Ray Bradbury.

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Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012.

Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012. Signer

Hoyem, Andrew. Signer

Burden, Carter. Donor

Holdings

Bookbinding (Binding) -- Metal bindings. rbbin

Research Call Number

*KP+ (Arion) 87-13

Berg Coll+ SciFi A23 1980

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