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Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Gilt-stamped heavy black cloth boards, no text markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright, slight shelf wear & slight quiet scuffing front panel, from collection of UCLA mathematician Nathaniel Grossman with his neat name to endpaper, else Fine copy of this landmark early title in the history of computing; 8vo; (xi) 451pp indexed.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 451 pages. "This timely book acquaints the reader with various mathematical methods and the physical mechanisms which have been developed for use in automatic computation. Straightforward in its approach, the material presented has been confined to methods which already exist or which seem liekly to be available shortly." Supervised by C. B. Tompkins, J. H. Wakelin and edited by W. W. Stifler, Jr. FINE HARDCOVER, GOOD DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protefcted with a clear plastic acid-free jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine in Fair dust jacket. First Edition, Fourth Printing. 23.5 x 16 cm. xi 451pp. Diagrams, index. Dark blue cloth in price-clipped dust jacket. Fourth printing of the first edition with roman numeral "IV" on coypright page. Jacket is worn and has several large pieces out. Name on front free endpaper. Binding is tight. Uncommon in jacket. Considered to be the first textbook on digital computing and a window into the state of computing in the late 1940s. Each section has thorough bibliographies covering mostly American computing literature.…

First edition, first printing, of the first treatise on how to build an electronic digital computer. An important contribution to computing literature in its own right, it also provided some of the most complete bibliographies available on the subject at the time. Charles Brown Tompkins, a pioneering academic in the fields of numerical analysis and computing, wrote the majority of the text, much of which summarises the work of the Engineering Research Associates computer company, of which he was a founder in 1946. Origins of Cyberspace 584; Tomash & Williams E14. Octavo. With diagrams throughout. Original navy cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, front cover ruled in blind. With dust jacket. Minimal shelfwear, cloth bright, contents clean. A near-fine copy in the very good jacket, lightly soiled, chipped at extremities, spine panel faded with two slight indentations and a faint patch of dampstain visible on verso, bookseller's stamp on front flap.…

New York, McGraw-Hill, 1950. 8vo. In the original full cloth with the original dust-jacket. Dust-jacket with light miscolouring to spine and and a tear to capitals. Small tear to upper part of the back to dust-jacket. A very fine and clean copy. XIII, (1), 451 pp. First edition in the rare original dust-jacket of the first textbook on digital computers. It constitutes "the first genuine textbook on computing techniques and computer hardware, was a pioneering book that influenced both American and foreign computer developments." (Tomash-Erwin E14). "The first treatise on how to build an electronic digital computer" (OOC)"High-Speed Computing Devices was written to satisfy a perceived need, following the end of World War II, for a compendium of technologies applicable to the emerging field of the electronic digital computer. Because published technical information was scarce in the US, there can be little question that the book was an important contribution to the computer literature of the 1950s. For today's student of computer history, whether a professional historian or a history buff, the book, with its state-of-the-art picture of the period 1947 through 1949, establishes a well-documented baseline for tracking and evaluating subsequent technological progress" (A.A. Cohen, "Introduction", Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series Edition of the ERA Report, 1983)."It provides the best picture of the state of the industry in its infancy. Ostensibly written as a report to the Office of Naval Research, the work was really undertaken on behalf of the Naval cryptographic establishment. Engineering Research Associates, ERA, was a group formed primarily from demobilized World War II naval cryptographers. It presents a discussion of the mechanical and electrical (both analog and digital) devices that could be usefully incorporated into computing machines. Although it does not survey the computer projects then underway, it does occasionally discuss individual machines in the context of integrating devices into complete systems. Engineering Research Associates (ERA) later became a division of Remington Rand and then of Sperry Rand." (Tomash-Erwin E14)Tomash-Erwin E14.Origins of Cyberspace 584.…