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Softcover. Condizione: Fine. Magazine. Quarto. Stapled wrappers. 40pp. Fine. Centennial issue featuring: *The Undertaker*, a play by John Hawkes, and *Portrait of an Undergraduate* essays on T.S. Eliot and Harvard by Conrad Aiken, Douglas Bush, L.M. Little and Harry Levin. Contributions by Jonathan Kozol, Adrienne Rich, W.H. Auden, Robert Fitzgerald, Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder, Howard Nemerov, Robert Bly, and many others.…

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. Magazine. Quarto. Stapled wrappers. 40pp. Fine. Centennial issue featuring: *The Undertaker*, a play by John Hawkes, and *Portrait of an Undergraduate* essays on T.S. Eliot and Harvard by Conrad Aiken, Douglas Bush, L.M. Little and Harry Levin. Contributions by Jonathan Kozol, Adrienne Rich, W.H. Auden, Robert Fitzgerald, Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder, Howard Nemerov, Robert Bly, and many others.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. lxvii, 760 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm OCLC 52073501 This reprint of the first edition of Sweet's Catalog commemorates the 90th anniversary of the Sweet's business."--Foreword ; "In offering to the public, and especially to the architects of the United States, the first edition of Sweet's Indexed Catalogue of Building Construction, the publishers have realized at the very outset the importance of stating clearly, first, what the book is, and secondly, the reasons for commending it to the architectural profession for their use and support. .to explain in a few words the character and purpose of the work, . a embodied in these first successful efforts toward a really scientific standard catalogue and index of building materials and construction. Let the matter be looked at entirely from the point of view of the architect. For a period of a dozen years, every possible method of collecting, sorting, classifying, filing and indexing all the catalogues and circulars of building materials was conscientiously given a fair trial, and after a thorough test, every method was just as conscientiously abandoned. They were abandoned because they did not work well in the specification room. They were not practicable. Everything was tried, arrangements of shelves, bookcases, pasteboard boxes, filing cases, patent binders, filing cabinets, cases of drawers, indexing schemes and " index- rerums. " At first, all the big books were put together in one place and all the little books in another place; and then all the big and little books were mixed up together, and indexed according to subject. Some had four pages, and some had four hundred pages. Barely two were of the same shape or superficies. The little ones would not stand up, and could not be gotten at when laid flat. Another elaborate system was introduced, and a voluminous cross-index started, but the big books contained too much useless matter, and the little books got lost or mislaid or could not be found just when wanted. Then the writer decided, after much time and expense, that the present system of publishing and distributing catalogues, as far as the architect is concerned, might be rightly termed " The Catalogue Delusion, " and that the only solution of the problem must lie in a scientific standard catalogue and index of building materials and construction, gradually developed toward an ideal result by the co-operation of manufacturer and architect. Briefly, then, what is Sweet's Indexed Catalogue of Building Construction? It is a scientific catalogue book system ( a volume or series of volumes) , as easy to refer to as a dictionary, consisting of groups of catalogues from which as much unnecessary matter as possible has been eliminated, carefully indexed and cross- indexed, and sent out gratuitously by the publishers to every architect of good standing. Each catalogue in the work is organically arranged in its parts. It proceeds in a regular order from fact " A " to fact " Z " . Illustrations of a certain class are all grouped and arranged according to some obvious plan. " Literature " and " mere writing " are omitted, as an architect has no time in his office for either."; authors and compilers include Wm. Martin Aiken, Claire Allen, J. M. Baillie, Charles I. Berg, Otto Block, Claude Bragdon, Arnold W. Brunner, George Cary, Henry M. Congdon, James B. Cook, Francis W. Cooper, R. L. Daus, Robt. E. Dexter, A. F. D'oench, Gustav W. Drach, Wm. S. Eames, Stephen C. Earle, E. J. Eckel, John H. & Wilson C. Ely. George B. Ferry, Clellan Waldo Fisher, W. E. Fisher, Herbert W. Foltz, Henry Lord Gay, Arthur N. Gibb, Robert W. Gibson, Chas. Sumner Greene, Fred. B. Hamilton, George F. Hammond, Samuel Hannaford, Olof Hanson, H. J. Hardenbergh, W. S. Hebbard, Charles Henry, J. G. Howard, Wm. B. Ittner, Elmer F. Jacobs, Clarence H. Johnston, Harry W. Jones, E. A. Kent, Thos. R. Kimball, Edward Kneezell, Theo. C. Link, W. E. Mansur, Thos. H. Morgan, Wm. G. Nolting, J. O'Rourke,; FINE. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Sorry, No international shipping on this item.Ex-Library hardcover (orange boards) with all the usual markings and attachments. Text block clean and unmarked. Tight binding.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. First Edition. 226 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Modest rubbing to corners and spine ends. DJ has light wear to edges w/ modest chipping to top of spine, and tiny chip to top edge of rear panel. Previous owner's name on front panel. Spine and edges of front panel a bit sunned. Contents nice.…

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First Edition. First Edition. xvi, [2], 336 pages. 4to [10 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches]. Publisher's blue cloth. The rare dust jacket is present, albeit chipped, stained, and worn (especially at foredges). Bright and clean internally. Cloth. "The electromechanical Harvard Mark I was the first programmable calculating machine to actually produce mathematical tables, fulfilling the dream of Charles Babbage originally set out in print in 1822." (OOC, #411) "The manual for the Harvard Mark II, a relay-based calculator built for the navy during the last year of World War II. It was installed at the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren, Virginia, in 1948, where it was used mainly for the development of ballistics tables. The Mark II's design did not depart radically from that of its predecessor in that it employed electromechanical equipment and was programmed via paper tapes, 'but otherwise it was very different. Where the Mark I used rotary mechanical systems (with magnetic clutches) for storing numbers, the Mark II used relays. The way of programming it was very different (i.e. the instruction set was different). The fact that it was essentially two machines which could be combined for large jobs or have each half running independent jobs was quite different.' (MRW Other innovations included a floating decimal point and a new type of relay. It was considerably faster than the Mark I . The Manual for the Harvard Mark II calculator was written primarily by Grace Hopper, assisted by Constance K. Rawson, Peter O. Cioffi and Richard D. Woltman. It was completed by Charles H. Richards and K. B. Mitchell" (OOC) Volume XXIV of the Annals of the Computation Laboratory of Harvard University. All volumes in the series were heavily used, and finding copies in dust jacket is getting difficult. Literature: Hook and Norman, Origins of Cyberspace, #416, 411 (referring to Mark I).…

HARD BACK NAVY BLUE. Condizione: 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.…