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First Edition of The Innovators; Signed by Walter Isaacson, Internet Pioneers Vint Cerf, Robert Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Tim Berners-Lee, and Linus Torvalds
ISAACSON, Walter [Vint Cerf; Leonard Kleinrock; Robert Kahn; Tim Berners-Lee; Linus Torvalds].
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
First edition of this sweeping history of the computer and the Internet, signed by Isaacson and several legendary internet pioneers. Octavo, original publisher's half-cloth, circuit board endpapers, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed on the title page by Walter Isaacson, Vint Cerf, and Robert Kahn, "To Ken." Boldly signed on the title page by Leonard Kleinrock, Tim Berners-Lee, and Linus Torvalds. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Pete Garceau. Vint Cerf, Leonard Kleinrock, Robert Kahn, Tim Berners-Lee, and Linus Torvalds collectively constitute the most consequential group of technologists in the history of the modern internet, their individual contributions forming the successive layers of infrastructure, protocol, application, and software upon which virtually every aspect of contemporary digital life depends. Kleinrock, whose doctoral dissertation at MIT in 1962 developed the mathematical theory of packet switching that made digital networks possible, laid the theoretical foundation upon which all subsequent work rested, and his UCLA laboratory transmitted the first message over ARPANET on October 29, 1969. Cerf and Kahn, working together at DARPA in the early 1970s, co-designed the Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol, TCP/IP, t...
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 152132
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First Edition of Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas' The Wise Men; Inscribed by Walter Isaacson
ISAACSON, Walter; Evan Thomas.
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.
First edition of this biography on how six influential American statesmen shaped U.S. foreign policy and the global order during the Cold War. Octavo, original publisher's half-cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Walter Isaacson on the front free endpaper, "To Norm Olean, Best wishes, Walter Isaacson." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 151134
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First Edition of Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas' The Wise Men; Signed by Walter Isaacson
ISAACSON, Walter; Evan Thomas.
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.
First edition of this biography on how six influential American statesmen shaped U.S. foreign policy and the global order during the Cold War. Octavo, original publisher's half-cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed by Walter Isaacson on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, inscriptions to the front and rear pastedowns.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 149197
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First edition of American Sketches; Inscribed by Walter Isaacson
ISAACSON, Walter.
American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009.
First edition of this collection of biographical and historical essays. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Walter Isaacson on the title page, "To Ed, All the best, Walter Isaacson." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Seow.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 150870
