Migraine. Revised and Expanded. SIGNED BY OLIVER SACKS TO BENOIT MANDELBROT

xxiii, 338 pp, 1 leaf; 11 numbered figs + 2 other figs.; 8 plates. Original cloth. Bottom corners of covers slightly bumped. Very Good. Second Edition, second printing. Sacks's book was originally published in 1970. SIGNED BY OLIVER SACKS TO BENOIT MANDELBROT: "For Benoit Mandelbrot--/ With great admiration/ and all good wishes,/ Oliver Sacks/ 2/99." NOTE: It is not difficult to find books signed by Oliver Sacks. But to find a book inscribed by Sacks to someone he admired is a different story. This copy was inscribed by Sacks to Benoit Mandelbrot, a person he admired greatly This is what Sacks had to say in his book Awakenings about Mandelbrot's book The Fractal Geometry of Nature: "When I first found that my patients' reactions to L-DOPA were becoming erratic and unpredictable--that what had been clear was clear no longer, that something strange and unintelligible was gradually taking over--I felt fear, guilt, and a sort of revulsion. This attitude changed when I first read Prigogine and gained the sense that there could be a hidden order, a new sort of order, in the midst of disorder. A most vivid sense of this new order--new, but also old, because it is the order of trees, of landscapes, of innumerable natural features--was given to me, visually, when I saw Mandelbrot's book.".…