Inversions: A Catalog of Calligraphic Cartwheels.

Kim, Scott. BYTE Books, 1981. Softbound. Foreword by Douglas R. Hofstadter. 'Backword' by Jef Raskin. An unlikely celebration of human-scale innovation—exercises in 'symmetry, intrigue, delight, and elegance' that would later be termed ambigrams—by three influential proponents of digital design: Kim wrote his Stanford dissertation, 'Viewpoint: Toward a Computer for Visual Thinkers', under prominent computer scientist Donald Knuth; AI researcher Hofstadter organized a 2000 symposium on the technological singularity called Spiritual Robots;, and Raskin spearheaded the creation of the Macintosh PC for Apple in the late 1970s.

Tight, square spine has a very small, area of adhesive remainder near the foot. Clean, unmarked interior. Some areas of sunning and edge-wear to the covers. A quarter-inch chip to the front at the fore-edge. 125 pp. Featured Rare & Collectible.