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#153 of a slipcased limited edition of 500 copies SIGNED BY NELSON DOUBLEDAY JR. [2], i-xiv, 1-399 pages. Gray slipcase, H 22.25cm x L 15.25cm; foxing to side panel labels; seams are firm. No dust jacket. Hardcover: H 21.5cm x L 14.25cm. Gray boards; some light foxing spots to spine. Light foxing to text block's top edge and upper fore-edge. Unpaged special limitation leaf precedes half-title with recto featuring limitation statement and handwritten copy# at top half of page and blue ink signature "Nelson Doubleday" written diagonally at bottom half (Nelson Doubleday Jr., 1933-2015, was the third generation owner and the next-to-last president and CEO of Doubleday and Company); interior leaves are otherwise bright and clean. Binding remains fairly crisp. Foreword by Brooke Hindle who served as Director of the National Museum of History and Technology in Washington, DC from 1974-1978 thereafter continuing at the Smithsonian Institution as senior historian and, upon retirement in 1985, as historian emeritus. Features a collection of fourteen essays divided among three sections. FIRST SERIES, 1972-73 - TECHNOLOGY AND THE FRONTIERS OF KNOWLEDGE: "Literature in the Age of Technology" by Saul Bellow; "Technology, Nature, and Society" by Daniel Bell; "History, Technology, and the Pursuit of Happiness" by Edmundo O'Gorman; "Technology and Evolution" by Sir Peter Medawar; "Technology and the Limits of Knowledge" by Arthur C. Clarke. SECOND SERIES, 1973-74 - CREATIVITY AND COLLABORATION: "Creativity in Modern Industry" by Akio Morita; "The Dissemination of Unpublished Information" by James D. Watson; "Creativity and Collaboration in Television Programs" by Huw Wheldon; "Collective Consciousness in Making Environment" by Moshe Safdie; "Creativity and Collaboration in Government-The Budget Process" by Caspar W. Weinberger. THIRD SERIES, 1974-75 - THE MODERN EXPLORERS: "South Pole-Continent of Adventure" by Sir Edmund Hillary; "On the Origin of the Universe" by Sir Fred Hoyle; "Radiocarbon Dating" by Willard F. Libby; "The Moon as Threshold" by Isaac Asimov.