Logic and Information.
by DEVLIN, Keith
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,, 1991. First edition, first impression, of the author's engaging study of the logical underpinnings of natural and artificial intelligence. Keith Devlin (b. 1947), a mathematician and popular science writer, won the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization in 2007. Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Minor foxing to endpapers and edges; light rubbing and sunning to jacket, faint foxing to verso, without price as issued: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 169750
- Title
- Logic and Information.
- Author
- DEVLIN, Keith
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
- Date Published
- 1991
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....