Giant Brains: or Machines that Think

New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Flat-signed by Berkeley on front free endpaper in black ink. xvi, 270pp. Original gray cloth with blue lettering. Offsetting to ffep, else Fine in About Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with edge-wear, creased tear to bottom of back panel, tiny chip near head. A very uncommon signature from the computer science pioneer, journalist, and mathematician who observed the UNIVAC, Simon (the first personal computer designed by Berkeley himself), and the Harvard Mark I among other early computers in action. This book brought the concept of the computer to the lay public for the first time. (Inventory #: 170923007)