Faster Thought Symposium Digital Computing by Bowden B V Editor (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First paperback edition of this important book, first published in 1953. 24 experts present an account of digital computing machines, their history, theory and design and their application to industry, commerce and scientific research. Illustrated b/w. Small PO label else clean and sound with no markings or inscription. 15 x 23cms with 416pp. We regret we are no longer able to ship to Denmark. All profits to Amnesty International.

Hardcover, 416 pages. Condition: Very good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. 1968 reprint. Light wear to dust jacket, slight rubbing to corners. 1cm closed tear to front panel adjacent to top of spine panel. Minor soiling to rear panel and minor age toning to spine panel. Flap price unclipped. Very slight rubbing to extremities of blue cloth boards, small ding to head of spine. Minor soiling to text block edges, interior clean. A well-preserved copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Condition: 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.

Cloth Bds. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition (?). Clean beige cloth boards Contains Plates and Diagrams 416 Pgs.

FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece portrait of Ada augusta, Countess of Lovelace, and 18 photographic plates, plus 2 folding tables (the first one is torn out of the book but present). Publisher's cloth. Ownership signature of the English mathematician P(eter) Swinnerton-Dyer (1927-2018), who specialized in number theory, and was known for his part in the Birch Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture.