[Computing]. A Collection Of Books On Computing. Wilkes, Shockley, Maurice V., David J. Wheeler, And Stanley Gill, Etc.

[Computing]

A Collection of books on Computing

Wilkes, Maurice V., David J. Wheeler, and Stanley Gill. The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer with special reference to the EDSAC and the use of a library of subroutines. Cambridge, MA: Addison-Wesley Press, Inc., 1951. 8vo. Half-title, 2 plates. Original brown cloth; some minor rubbing to extremities. First edition of the first book on computer programming. Herschel N. Hadley (booklabel). [With]: Bowden, B[ertram] V[ivian]. Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1953. 8vo. Original full pale green cloth, original dust-jacket; jacket price-clipped with some chipping. — Korn, Granino A., and Theresa M. Korn. Electronic Analog Computers. New York: McGraw Hill Book Co., 1952. 8vo. Original black cloth. [With:] duplicate copy; spine just sunned. — Shockley, William. Electronics and Holes in Semiconductors. New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., 1950. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece. Original full blue cloth; some soiling and fading. [With:] duplicate copy withdrawn from the Department of the Army Library. — Shockley, William. "The Path to the Conception of the Junction Transistor." [In:] IEEE Transactions on Electric Devices. [N.P]: 1976. 4to stapled offprint. Original yellow wrappers, signed by Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain (who shared the Nobel Physics Prize in 1956) on the cover. — Tesla, Nikola. Experiments with Alternate Currents... New York: McGraw Hill Publishing Co., 1904. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece. Original full red cloth; spine sunned, some foxing to end leaves. — Tompkins, C.B., et al. High-Speed Computing Devices. New York: McGraw Hill Book Co., 1950. 8vo. Original full navy cloth; minor rubbing to head and tail of spine. — Wiener, Norbert. Cybernetics. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1948. 8vo. Original full red cloth, cover and spine stamped in black and white. [With:] duplicate copy; slightly rubbed. 

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