Arithmetic Operations in Digital Computers

First Edition. [6], 397, [1] pages. 8vo. Publisher's brick red binding with blue lettering. Original dust jacket in tan with blue lettering. Dust jacket price clipped, sunned with wear at the extremities, a few stains internally with some show through, and spine darkening/soiling. MIT Professor Frank Verzuh's copy with his usual library markings ("RICHARDS 55" on lower page edges, receipt date "Mar 11, 1955" on front wrapper, "'55" on spin panel, signature stamp, acquisition date and address stamp on front flyleaf). These markings were a consistent method employed by Verzuh in his personal library to indicate the date of the various books. Binding is crisp and clean. Difficult to find in the original dust jacket and in the first printing. Cloth. Previous owner Dr. Frank M. Verzuh was an MIT Professor and long-time employee. Involved in digital computing from its earliest days, he attended the famous Moore School lectures in 1946, worked on Bush's Rapid Arithmetic Machine and various differential analyzers before and during the war and helped to design the Rockefeller Electronic Calculator, a small digital computer. Professor Verzuh taught MIT courses on computing, and became Assistant Director of the MIT Computation Center, a post he held for many years. During his tenure the Center prototyped a number of significant machines in the history of computing. Dr. Verzuh was a pioneer in early computing, working with and around many of the ideas and machines that have made modern computing.…