Faster than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines
Edited by B.V. Bowden
Sixth printing of this early introduction to electronic computing, reprinting a symposium of twenty four experts on "modern digital computing machines, their history, theory and design, and their application to industry, commerce and scientific research" and featuring the essay "Digital Computers Applied to Games" written by Alan Turing.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1953 (1966). Publisher's original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; frontispiece of Ada Lovelace, illustrated throughout with black and white photos and diagrams; pp. xix, [1], 416. A very good or better copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains sturdy with a touch of a lean, minimal wear to boards, owner's signature to endpapers else internally clean. Jacket shows light shelfwear and rubbing, protected in archival mylar.