拍品 943
  • 943

WIENER, NORBERT, 5 VOLUMES

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100 - 150 GBP
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描述

  • A collection of 5 volumes by or relating to Wiener, comprising:
i. Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. New York: The Technology Press, 1948, 8vo, red cloth, dust-jacket, (bought from Jonathan Hill, New York, 1986), [T&W W50 bis], dust-jacket worn with tears and some lossii. Ex-Prodigy. My Childhood and Youth. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, pictorial frontispiece and title-page, green cloth gilt, [T&W W52; Origins of Cyberspace 998]iii. I am a Mathematician. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1956, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, original black cloth printed in green, spine gilt, dust-jacket, [T&W W56; Origins of Cyberspace 1000], dust-jacket worn and chippingiv. The Tempter. New York: Random House, 1959, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, original cloth boards, dust-jacket, [T&W W58], dust-jacket worn v. "Norbert Wiener, 1894-1964" [in:] Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 72, no. 1, part 2, January 1966. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, 1966, 8vo, portrait frontispiece, blue wrappers, [Origins of Cyberspace 1008, not in T&W]

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