Algebraic Geometry: A First Course
by Joe Harris · Springer, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 133
Harvard graduate course text that develops algebraic geometry through explicit projective examples: rational normal curves, Veronese and Segre maps, quadrics, projections, Grassmannians and scrolls, with constructions worked inside projective space before general theory. 349 pages.
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