Design for a Brain
by W. Ross Ashby
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall, 1952. 1st Edition . Very Good/Very Good. 5.75 x 8.75 inches (14.5 x 22 cm). Dust jacket: Tear and slight rubbing to top edge of front cover. Slight wear to ends of spine. Unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good. Book: Black cloth binding with a little light marking. Light foxing to page edges and endpapers, clean text throughout. Scarce first printing of this landmark cybernetics work. . Overall book condition is Very Good. Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches (14.5 x 22 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: ix, 260
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tarrington Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1189E187
- Title
- Design for a Brain
- Author
- W. Ross Ashby
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1952
- Size
- 5.75 x 8.75 inches (14.5 x 22 cm
- Keywords
- Cybernetics, Engineering_Technical
- Bookseller catalogs
- Engineering & Technical; Science & Medicine;
Terms of Sale
Tarrington Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Tarrington Books
Biblio member since 2015
Tarrington, Herefordshire
About Tarrington Books
A family run bookshop located in the heart of rural Herefordshire. Large selection of children's literature, crime fiction, military, history, travel, vintage paperbacks, quality antiquarian volumes & fine bindings. We offer free UK postage on all items and pride ourselves on our safe packaging and rapid dispatch of orders. Browsers welcome by appointment.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....