Fords Guide Thimking by Corey Ford (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. Gifter's inscription on front endpage. Dust jacket price clipped. In protective mylar cover. (Computers, Humor).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A humorous handbook for the machine age with over 40 cartoons. Slight rubbing to pictorial hardcovers, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Spine is just a bit faded. Spine tips are bumped. 95 pages. Illustrated with cartoons.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Dust jacket has rubbing, tears, and missing chips at base of spine. Gift inscription on front flyleaf. See photos.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Humor, Cartoons, Computers).

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. Glossy printed boards. Owner's name and a couple of spots of foxing, near fine lacking the dustwrapper. Humorous guide to computers and office machines.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. (1st) One of the earliest collection of humor regarding the computer and its impact on society--Dedicated to IBM 704, 705, 7070, 7090, and RAMAC. Cartoons throughout from many sources including Sports Illustrated, Punch, The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Saturday Review, Esquire. Larger, squarish book, colorful illustrated boards, orange, black and yellow, with photo of Ford on back deciphering computer data. DJ has same color illustration as book, front badly rubbed at top, left and right edges, tiny nick at bottom front tip, microtears at spine edges, 3/8" tear at spine top left edge with crease, very tiny wear spots at top back edge middle, lightly rubbed on photos. Fair DJ/Fine book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. The format is approximately 7.5 inches by 9 inches. 95, [1] pages. Illustrations. No dust jacket present. A piece of the spine is missing at the top Cover states A Humorous Handbook for the Machine Age With over 40 cartoons. Perhaps the first humorous book on computers and computing. Ford's preface is presciently titled "A Computer in Every Home." The book's title makes reference to IBM's "Think" signs that were ubiquitous in workplaces during the 60s. One of the earliest collection of humor regarding the computer and its impact on society. Corey Ford (April 29, 1902 - July 27, 1969) was an humorist, writer, and screenwriter. He was friendly with members of the Algonquin Round Table and occasionally lunched there. He was a freelance writer and humorist. Ford published 30 books and more than 500 magazine articles, many of them marked with a gregarious sense of humor, a love of dogs, and "underdogs." He told many stories of the literary scene in the twenties, of headhunters in Dutch Borneo, and of U.S. airmen in combat during World War II. Ford wrote a monthly column, "The Lower Forty Hunting, Shooting and Inside Straight Club", for Field & Stream for almost 20 years in the 1950s and 1960s. Ford created the name Eustace Tilley for the dandyish, top-hatted symbol of The New Yorker magazine. Ford's series of "Impossible Interviews" for Vanity Fair featured ill-assorted celebrities, among them Stalin vs. John D. Rockefeller, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes vs. Al Capone, Sigmund Freud vs. Jean Harlow, Sally Rand vs. Martha Graham, and Gertrude Stein vs. Gracie Allen. Corey Food presents a hilarious preview of life in the Machine Age. According to Mr. Ford, it will be an age in which the computer solves those perplexing questions that have harassed man since time began, such as: Where does my wife keep the sugar? Are the fish biting" Where are the car Keys" and. Do we send a Christmas card to the Tweepers? With these man-made brains, Corey Ford predicts , the golfer will be able to shoot a better game by feeding the computer wind directions, length of fairway grass, and his current handicap, and learning which club to use. The businessman will be able to capture handily the office pool on the World Series, and decipher the perplexing doodles on his secretary's blotter. No family, he continues, will be complete without two computers: His and Hers. It is to prepare man for this baffling new existence that Corey Ford has written his Guide to Thimking. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. The format is approximately 7.5 inches by 9 inches. 95, [1] pages. Illustrations. DJ has wear, tears, scuffs, soiling and chips. The Dust Jacket states A Humorous Handbook for the Machine Age With Over 40 Cartoons. Perhaps the first humorous book on computers and computing. Ford's preface is presciently titled "A Computer in Every Home." The book's title makes reference to IBM's "Think" signs that were ubiquitous in workplaces during the 60s. One of the earliest collection of humor regarding the computer and its impact on society. Corey Ford (April 29, 1902 - July 27, 1969) was an American humorist, writer, and screenwriter. He was friendly with members of the Algonquin Round Table and occasionally lunched there. He was a freelance writer and humorist. Ford published 30 books and more than 500 magazine articles, many of them marked with a gregarious sense of humor, a love of dogs, and "underdogs." He told many stories of the literary scene in the twenties, of headhunters in Dutch Borneo, and of U.S. airmen in combat during World War II. Ford wrote a monthly column, "The Lower Forty Hunting, Shooting and Inside Straight Club", for Field & Stream for almost 20 years in the 1950s and 1960s. Ford created the name Eustace Tilley for the dandyish, top-hatted symbol of The New Yorker magazine. Ford's series of "Impossible Interviews" for Vanity Fair featured ill-assorted celebrities, among them Stalin vs. John D. Rockefeller, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes vs. Al Capone, Sigmund Freud vs. Jean Harlow, Sally Rand vs. Martha Graham, and Gertrude Stein vs. Gracie Allen. Corey Food presents a hilarious preview of life in the Machine Age. According to Mr. Ford, it will be an age in which the computer solves those perplexing questions that have harassed man since time began, such as: Where does my wife keep the sugar? Are the fish biting" Where are the car Keys" and. Do we send a Christmas card to the Tweepers? With these man-made brains, Corey Ford predicts , the golfer will be able to shoot a better game by feeding the computer wind directions, length of fairway grass, and his current handicap, and learning which club to use. The businessman will be able to capture handily the office pool on the World Series, and decipher the perplexing doodles on his secretary's blotter. No family, he continues, will be complete without two computers: His and Hers. It is to prepare man for this baffling new existence that Corey Ford has written his Guide to Thimking. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.…