Published by HARVARD UNIVERSITY, MASSACHUSETTS, 1951
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop / Ruffolo Enterprises, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
HARD BACK NAVY BLUE. Condition: GOOD. JACKET: WORN DJ. FIRST. Gold Gilt on spine.Slightly bumped corners and slight bumping to top and bottom of spine. Previous owner's stamp with his information on front inside cover. Remains of a removed or missing bookplate on front inside cover. Figures and visual representations of the books contents.Fading to spine of dust jacket. Chippings and tears of various sizes along the edges of the dust jacket. Clean pages except for some very light and almost unnoticable browning to the pages.A few black and white illustrations. Extremely, rare, scarce and early book on computers. DATE PUBLISHED: 1951 EDITION: FIRST 278.
Published by Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1951, 1951
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition of this work on the mathematical methodology of the behaviour of electronic circuits. It was based on Aiken's 1947 lecture series, "Organization of Digital Calculating Machinery", and on research stemming from the Computation Laboratory's 1948 contract with the Air Force. Provenance: with the ownership signature and stamps of the aeronautical engineer William Curtis Rockefeller (1910-1982). A student of Theodore von Kármán, Rockefeller was the first recipient of the Lawrence B. Sperry Award and served as the meteorologist for Howard Hughes's 1936 record-setting flight; his work on the latter formed the basis of the Flight Advisory Weather Service. Origins of Cyberspace 419; Tomash & Williams H61. Quarto. Tables and diagrams. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Spine ends and corners rubbed; jacket unclipped, spine toned, marked, and with loss to ends, not affecting text, chips and closed tears to extremities: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.