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[Gardner, Martin] First Gathering For Gardner Martin Gardner Tribute Book. [Atlanta, 1993]. Being a collection of “articles in tribute to Martin Gardner” issued to coincide with the first event honoring the famed author and popularizer of recreational mathematics. Comb bound with pictorial wrapper reproducing Ken Knowlton’s domino portrait of Gardner. Profusion of illustrations. 392 pp. Signed by Mel Stover, Jay Marshall, Robert Neale, Dan Garrett, Max Maven, Jerry Andrus, Robert Parrish, Oscar Weigle, Michael Weber, Harry Eng, Ray Hyman, and Martin Gardner and Charlotte Gardner, among other attendees. With related correspondence, postcards, and registration forms laid in. Rare. Assembled by Scott Kim, with help from Tom Rodgers, Cheryl Rodgers, and Dana Richards, this large homemade publication collects material by mathematicians, puzzle makers, Gardner himself, and magicians on subjects (primarily puzzles and mathematics) that have come to be the hallmark of the regular Gathering for Gardner conferences held in Atlanta. These invitation-only events center on the wide-ranging interests of Gardner, who, among other accomplishments, kept recreational math, puzzles, skepticism, and magic in the eye of the general public through a seemingly endless and unmatched output of books and magazine articles over the course of some six decades or more. These books were apparently only available to attendees of the conferences.