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Black Cloth. Zustand: Good-VG. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair/good. 1st ed. 288 pp., 10 ills on 4 double-sided pp.ex-pagination; two old red & blue biro scribbles top front endpaper, slight odd creasing towards top front gutter on pastedown, covers clean and unworn but surface slightly, but extensively, rubbed appearing greyish; unclipped jacket fairly clean but traingular chunk missing from bottom back and extensive edge-rubbing/chipping/nicking. Handy working/reference copy only. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range. Size: 14 Cms x 22 Cms.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 104 page all original 14 x 22 cm issue for Nov 1959 to January 1960. Vol. 14. No 1. Nine articles, including "What Is Mathematics" by Herbert D. Deas. Images 1 & 2.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 8vo (large). 8th Printing. Blue cloth, xix, 416pp.Bookplate on FFeP. Frontispiece of Ada Lovelace, with 15 plates, [including 1 folding]. Light bruise and fading on spine, else near fine in a near fine, clipped d/w that is somewhat soiled with some superficial tears at extremities of jacket. Several essays on the History of Computing and Computing Machines, Digital Computing Machines in Britain and America, and Applications of Digital Computing Machines.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good to Very Good. Fair-Good covers, Interiors Good-Very Good clean and tight, faint blue stamp on fly leaf, sporadic penned notes in the beginning of the book.

291 large pp. 1st ed., fine in pictorial cloth. 8.5 x 11.5".

First edition, in the dust jacket, of "the most widely read early English introduction to electronic computing" (Origins of Cyberspace), a collection of 24 essays by leading experts in the field, including a chapter on computer chess that was one of Alan Turing's final published pieces. From 1950 to 1953 Bertram Vivian Bowden (1910-1989) worked for the Ferranti corporation, a computer company that specialised in machines for defence and electrical systems and which introduced the first commercially available computer, the Ferranti Mark I, in 1951. Bowden "was particularly effective in explaining, with uncanny prescience, the dramatic effect that the digital computer was destined to have" (ODNB). In the preface he describes some of the tasks, such as engineering calculations, that computers will soon take over from humans, and writes, "It seems probable that we shall have a second Industrial Revolution on our hands before long In the next revolution machines may replace mens' brains and relieve them of much of the drudgery and boredom which is now the lot of so many white collar workers". Origins of Cyberspace 504. Octavo. Photographic frontispiece of Ada Lovelace, 13 plates, 2 folding tables, diagrams within text. Original cream cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Ownership initials on front free endpaper. Spine lightly sunned, handful of marks to cloth and edges, contents clean; jacket price-clipped, spine toned and soiled, rear flap fold rubbed, a few chips and closed tears to edges, scuff to front panel: a very good copy in like jacket.