first edition
1949 · Urbana
by Shannon, Claude; Warren Weaver
Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 1949. First Edition. Fine/Very Good+. First hardcover edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original maroon cloth with spine lettered in silver. Pages toned, else Fine, in a very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with chipping at the edges and with a nick to the front spine joint. The first hardcover edition of Shannon's most important work, reprinting "the Mathematical Theory of Communication" first published in the Bell System Technical Journal in 1948, with minor corrections and additional material.
(Inventory #: 140942697)