by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Signed copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction book
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1979. Eighth printing of the first edition. Signed by Douglas R. Hofstadter on the front free endpaper verso and inscribed "with warm wishes" to the recipient in Gettysburg, dated 6 October 2009 and accompanied by a sketch. xxi, 777 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with very slight lean to spine, light wear and toning to spine and extremities, and light soiling and foxing to textblock edges. Faint foxing and offsetting from dust jacket to endpapers. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with a heavily faded spine panel, pencil streak to front panel, and light foxing more visible on verso. The Pulitzer-winning "metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll."