Wraps
1955 · London
by National Physical Laboratory
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1955. Later printing. Wraps. Very Good. Later printing. [2], 296 pages. Original tan paper wraps with red lettering, edge stapled to textblock and covered with thin red cloth tape backstrip (as issued). Ex-library copy with removed spine label, remnants of pocket and checkout ticket on rear inside cover (obscuring some text of adverts) and several institutional stamps on first few and last pages. Otherwise clean and bright inside. Front cover reinforced with tape internally. Covers (and first few pages) chipped, soiled, and edgeworn but with no loss of text. Red cloth backstrip worn at head/tail of spine panel. Wraps. 'The proceedings of the third computer conference held in England. Among the participants were Douglas Hartree ("Opening address"), James H. Wilkenson ("The pilot ACE" and "Linear Algebra on the pilot ACE"), Maurice Wilkes ("The EDSAC" and "Experience with marginal checking and automatic routining of the EDSAC"), Frederic C. Williams ("MADAM"), J.C.B. Miller ("Applications of electronic machines in pure mathematics"), Thomas Kilburn ("Cathode ray tube storage"), and Andrew D Booth ("The APE(X)C: A low cost electronic calculator").' Origins of Cyberspace 807.
(Inventory #: 18831)