Fractal Geometry Nature by Benoit Mandelbrot, First Edition (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover With Complete Dj. Illustrated In B/W & Colour.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, and scarce as such (there were dozens of later printings and most every copy found is one). The series of digits on the copyright page begins on the left with a 1, for first printing, and ends on the right with a 2, corresponding to the 2 in '1982'; the 19th printing is from 2000. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. No internal markings.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Benoit B. Mandelbrot on the half-title page and inscribed to a former owner, noted physicist Michael E. Fisher; with Fisher's inked ownership markings to the top corner of the front free endpaper and his penciled notes to the copyright page. Bound in publisher's original maroon cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with slight lean to binding, bumping to top edge of boards, slight wear to extremities, contents lightly tanned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with rubbing and light wear, toning to the blindside.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. A fantastic association copy signed in the year of publication by Benoit Mandelbot and inscribed to John Hubbard, "For John Hubbard / Cordially / Benoit Aug 31, 1982. / John: This book was [?] written long ago and delivered to the publisher on Aug 15, 81, as I told you when we talked last February [?]". A lovely inscription from the man hailed as the "father of fractals" to one of the mathematicians who shortly thereafter co-discovered the Mandebrot Set with Adrien Douady in 1985, naming it of course for Mandelbrot. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good boards lightly bowed and lightly edge-worn, pages lightly toned. In an unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning, light edge wear and a crease to the front flap. Greatly expanded from Mandelbrot's 1977 book entitled Fractals. A great association copy between two mathematicians whose impact on 20th century mathematics was immense.