Description: New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1979 8vo brown cloth boards in dust jacket, 777 pp. Very good in a good plus, unclipped dust jacket. Light sunning to top and bottom edges of case and light soiling to top edge of the text block. Jacket sunned on spine and part of front panel. Here is a first printing of Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter (1945- ). This book won both the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction and a National Book Award for Science. The text examines the commonalities between logician Kurt Godel, artist M.C Echer, and composer J.S. Bach. In a review in Scientific American Martin Gardner wrote, "Every few decades, an unknown author brings out a book of such depth, clarity, range, wit, beauty and originality that it is recognized at once as a major literary event.”
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Binding: Hardcover
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
