New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1949. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth stamped in dark blue. Near Fine, pages lightly toned and light offsetting from jacket flaps to endsheets. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear and light soiling. An uncommon..... More
Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1955. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine lettered in light blue. Very Good with light rubbing and wear to cloth, slight fading to extremities, slight foxing to textblock edge. Contents tanned, ownership rubber stamp to rear paste down. An..... More
London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1923. First British edition. 102, [1, ad], [1, blank] pp. Bound in publisher's black wraps lettered in red. Small chip in top of front wrap near head, else Near Fine with typical slip pasted over cast on copyright page and associated wrinkling. This..... More
New York: NYPL / Oxford University Press, 1999. Signed by Freeman Dyson on front free endpaper, from the collection of entomologist Frank Radovsky, although not marked so. xvi, 124, [3] pp. Publisher's black cloth and boards with gilt lettering. Third printing of the first edition. Fine in Fine unclipped dust..... More
Peterborough, NH: Green Publishing, 1975-1976. The first 14 issues of the most influential microcomputing magazine of its time. Vol. 1, No. 1 (September 1975) - No. 14 (October 1976). Very Good condition overall. The very first issue, unfortunately, is in the roughest shape with a dampstain to its last half..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First edition. Signed by Frank Herbert on the title page with his printed name crossed out. 304 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth and boards with gilt spine lettering. Small remainder mark to bottom edge, else Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with..... More
New York: Basic Books, 1979. First edition, first printing. Signed by Douglas R. Hofstadter on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Gilt lettering oxidized, else Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with fading to the spine and edges, light..... More
New York: Basic Books, 1979. Signed by Douglas R. Hofstadter on the title page. xxi, [1], 777 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Sixth printing of the first edition. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket with much less sunning to the jacket than..... More
New York: Basic Books, 1995. First edition, first printing. A lovely association copy, signed and inscribed by Douglas R. Hofstadter to Stephen Jay Gould and his family, "To Steve, Deborah, Jesse and Ethan with much fondness from Doug April, 1985." Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. First edition. (First printing with title page dated 1940 and no additional printings indicated on copyright page.) xiv, 380, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with light rubbing along edges and to gilt, in Very Good+ price-clipped dust..... More
Menlo Park, CA: People's Computer Company, 1977. First edition, first printing. 248, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good+, bump to top corner, sticker shadow to rear wrap. A very early home computing book published by the Menlo Park-based People's Computer Company. Rare. More
New York: The Raindance Corporation / Radical Software, 1970-1971. The first four issues of the trailblazing early '70s video art magazine with a technical bent that included early programming and computer art. Nos. 1-3 are in a tabloid folded newspaper format; no. 4 is saddle stapled. Very Good overall, wear..... More
Cambridge: University Press, 1910, 1912, 1913. First edition. Three volumes. ix, [5], 666; xxxiv, 772; x, 491 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth, spines lettered in gilt; housed in custom folding cloth box. Good condition overall. Unsophisticated copies, pleasantly not-ex-library (very uncommon in commerce thus), but certainly fragile. Rubbing to..... More
Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 1949. First hardcover edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original maroon cloth with spine lettered in silver. Pages toned, else Fine, in a very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with chipping at the edges and with a nick to the front spine joint. The first..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1948. First edition. xii, 359 pp. with fold-out chart in rear pouch. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with black and gilt lettering. Near Fine with light rubbing, a little sunning to spine; contents bright and unmarked. Toning to endpapers and one panel of the..... More
Chicago: [The Author], 1935. First edition. Signed by "Bill" Griffith P. Taylor on the front wrap, inscribed "With the compliments of the author, Griffith P. Taylor." 40 pp. printed on rectos only. Bound in original side stapled wraps. Very Good+ with light shelf wear and rubbing to wraps, small tear..... More
New York: YIPL, 1971. A collection of 14 issues of the scarce very first hacker newsletter, The Youth International Party Line, including one under its second moniker TAP and two extra pieces of ephemera. Issues 1, 2, 4, 6, and 9-18. Issue 22 (as TAP) included, plus a "Letters to..... More
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London: Printed and Published for The Society by C. F. Hodgson and Son, 1939. First edition. The first printing of Alan Turing's PhD dissertation and seminal work published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Second Series, Vol. 45., with Turing paper pp. 161-228. Pp. 475. Entire issue, bound without..... More
Berkeley: And/Or Press, 1982. First edition. Signed by Jacques Vallee on the title page. x, 213 pp. Publisher's wraps. Near Fine with light rubbing along edges. Information theorist and computer science pioneer Jacques Vallee's vision of the future of computers and "the new information networks." Only two copies found in..... More
New York: Random House, 1959. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, signed by Norbert Wiener on the front free endpaper and warmly inscribed to former dean of residence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Frederick G. Fassett, "in token of many years' friendship." Wiener was a mathematician and professor at MIT..... More