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New York: Esso Standard, Division of Humble Oil & Refining Company, 1958. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Near fine. Staple bound wraps. 15pp paginated in binary number system 0010 to 1111. 10 1/2" by 8". Fine condition.Prepared by the publisher for teachers in the nine states that Esso had offices this booklet provides an explanation of the binary system as a language for early computers and also asks questions such as "What are these devices? In what sense do they think? Will they replace the human brain? A fascinating glimpse into early electronic computer technology.

Number 53 of a limited first edition, signed by author. Octavo. Dark blue pebbled cloth over limp boards with gilt stamped front cover and spine. 296pp with b/w photographs. Light water mark to gutter corner of preliminary pages. light crease to corner of rear cover. Hinges firm. Good.Yesterdays on Brooklyn Heights is history of a sort. It tells in rather casual manner of early settlement in Brooklyn, describing the Dutch houses and manners of dress, and the shift from Dutch to English presence by the time of the Revolutionary War. But Callender was writing less a history in any currently accepted sense of the term than an elegy to a place he loved, and which he saw losing much of the charm he treasured. He rued the coming of apartment buildings and the telephone, which "began to curtail the running in and out of each other's [sic] houses at all hours. … And one morning we woke up to realize that our Golden Age had vanished, never to return." - Henrik Krogius, Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle.