Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1958, 6th pr.  Illustrated by Harry Zarchy.  Former school library book with usual stamps and treatments.  Hard cover, 152 pages.  Boards have edge and cover wear, corners and spine ends bumped with fraying and small losses to cloth, cloth split in spots along front spine edge; some soil and marks on boards; age spots on outer page block; binding sound.  Some ink noted on page 6 with a few stray ink marks elsewhere and occasional age spot; borrowing date slip on last page and pocket on rear paste down; black & white illustrations.  ‘Mathematics is the science of learning how to count and measure.  It is one of the oldest if not the oldest of the sciences; it is so old that its name doesn’t even mean “to count and measure,” but “to learn.”  The ancient Greeks used the word manthano which means “to learn.”  For at least four thousand years men and women have been learning how to count and measure.  Romping Through Mathematics is the story of how, during those four thousand years, the necessary mental tools for counting and measuring were collected and arranged.’ (from Note)