Machine Methods Accounting Manual Basic (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition Revised/With Additions. First Edition Revised/With Additions. Hardcover. 24 separately paginated pamphlets plus [8]pp. preliminaries *and* including the 1942 pamphlet 19A 'Automatic Reproduction Punch / Type 513' [not indicated on 24 pamphlet list], all bound together as provided to the customer. This copy issued to the Amicable Life Insurance Company (founded in Waco, TX. 1910). 1936 copyright for all pamphlets except 20A (1940) and 19A (1942) Includes numerous illustrations and diagrams. This book was one of the "key publications from IBM". [Cortada, Before the Computer, 307] ?Primarily, this book was written to provide a single volume from which employees of International Business Machines Corporation may thoroughly familiarize themselves with the complete list of bookkeeping and accounting machines manufactured by their Company, and with the operation of such machines of furnishing figure-facts automatically? [from preliminaries, p [6]] The first section, 14 pages, is devoted to the history of IBM, and sections 2 through 8 provide background on principles, the punch card, codes, organization, supervision, training, and controls. The remaining sections illustrate and explain numerous machines and their operation. Originally issued with 23 sections; this version was updated in 1940 and 1942 with two additional sections (19a and 20a) bringing the volume current. Uncommon generally, scarcce as nice as is found here. Light shelf/edge wear, gilt toned, ownership signature at bastard title page, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Black pebbled cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, stiff black endpages. 4to. var. pag. Illus. (b/w plates).

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition of IBM's manual published while the company dominated the punch-card tabulator, calculating and data-processing machine market, while standing just on the cusp of the dawn of the electronic computer. In 23 separately paginated sections with black and white diagrams and illustrations of IBM's patented accounting machines, with the first section on IBM's history. Bound in publisher's black cloth pressure binder stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light wear and trivial soiling to covers. A lovely copy.

First edition. First edition. With many diagrams and illustrations, in 23 individually paginated sections. 4to. First Edition of this manual issued in separate parts by IBM during the period just before the invention of the electronic computer, when the company dominated the market for punch-card tabulators and other calculating and data-processing machines. The most sophisticated of IBM's electric punched card tabulators could be programmed by plug boards, and represented an intermediate step between traditional tabulating machines and the programmable computers that were developed during World War II. "Primarily, this book was written to provide a single volume from which employees of International Business Machines Corporation may thoroughly familiarize themselves with the complete list of bookkeeping and accounting machines manufactured by their company, and with the operation of such machines of furnishing figure-facts automatically" (p. [6]). The manual is copiously illustrated with photographs and drawings of IBM's accounting machines, punch cards and related equipment. Black cloth pressure binder. Light rubbing to extremities. Very good. Provenance: IBM With many diagrams and illustrations, in 23 individually paginated sections. 4to.