Gaming : The Future's Language (first printing) Game Theory & Simulation Methods

Sage Publications, New York. 1974. First edition, first printing, stated. Book is bright, tight and clean. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Pages and endpapers are bright and clean. No writing within aside from a previous owner's name on FFEP. Black cloth is bright and clean; stamped in gold titles. Book would grade fine except for a touch of faint scant foxing along top page edges, and slight shelf-rubbing along bottom panel edges that resulted in some minor loss of black hue along edges. Original DJ is attractive with a couple of flaws: tiny edge chip at base of DJ spine, sunning on spine resulting in sunfade of orange hue in title, and faint mottling with a handful of faint cloud outline ghosts. Small, faint, inadvertent pen mark on rear. Richard D. Duke developed and codified simulation theory and presented his findings in this book. Over the course of his career, he participated in more than a hundred applications of his technique in over thirty countries. The 44th annual International Simulation and Gaming Association (ISAGA) convention in Austria (2012) was dedicated to his achievements, with a retrospective of his work, including founding ISAGA, the International Simulation & Gaming Association. First edition, stated first printing; in original DJ. NF/VG.…