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New York: Hayden Book Company, 1971. 7th printing. Paperback. Very good. Very good softcover. Text clean and unmarked, light creating to spine, toning to edges. ""...How to Build a Working Digital Computer is both an introduction to the "new and exciting field of digital computers" and a set of plans to build one. What's especially interesting is that the plans don't call for any specialized electronic components, but instead show how to build everything from parts that you might find at a hardware store: items like paper clips, little light bulbs, thread spools, wire, screws, and switches (that can optionally be made from paper clips)... for instance, used paper clips as switches, while an ordinary tin can formed the basis of a rudimentary drum memory , much like earlier computers such as the IBM 650. A professional version of the computer was later commercially marketed as the Arkay CT-650..."

London: John Murray, 1773. Second edition. Leather_bound. Very Good-. Modern black leather octavo, gilt date at spine base. Second Edition, published the same year as an Edinburgh Second Edition. Vol 1: [title], [contents leaf], [v]-xvi, [1]-192pp. Vol II: [title leaf], Contents [3]-4, [1]-225, [i], ad [1] pp. * 004909

Chicago: Bion J. Arnold / Committee on Local Transportation of the City Council, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Good in original green cloth; ex-library with light marks. Early work on Chicago's subway system, with many foldout plans and diagrams.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Good-. First edition, first printing of the work laying out Arrow's impossibility theorem, which led to his Nobel prize in economics. Bound in blue boards with gilt lettering and Cowles Commission logo on front. Good-, ex-library with usual marks and call number on spine.