Murray Hill, N. J. Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated March 31, 1953. [1-cover sheet], [1-abstract], [1]-14 leaves + 4 plates (2 folding). Stapled upper left. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. Reproduced typescript. Plate slightly larger at 11 x 8 1/2 inches. The main text leaves and abstracts have fours holes..... More

New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company 1948. First Edition. vii, 751, [1] pages. Red buckram library binding with gilt spine lettering and shelf number in white. Ex-library copy with stamps on page edges and endpapers. Properly discarded. In The Bell System Technical Journal, Volume 27, 1948 (entire volume offered)..... More

[New York]: Academic Press September 1957. [5-blank ], 6-25, [1-blank] pages. Self-wrappers. 8 7/8 x 6 inches. Stapled at the spine. Staples rusty, staple impression in several places on wrappers. Near Fine. Wraps.

"In this paper, we will develop certain extensions and refinements of coding theory for noisy communication..... More

[New York]: [The Institute of Radio Engineers, Inc.] 1949. First Separate Edition. [9]-22 pages. 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Self-wrappers, last page (rear cover) blank. Two staples near spine printed on buff paper. Light soiling and creasing to wrappers. Thumbing crease. Staples rusted. Good. Wraps.

Shannon presented this paper..... More

Milano: Editrice La Fiaccola 1954. Later printing. 115-130 pages. 234 x 188 mm. (9 1/4 x 6 5/8 inches). Printed light green printed wrappers. Tanned pages, light browning to the extremities. “Reprinted by kind permission of the Author and the Editors from the Proceedings of the I.R.E. October 1953." Near..... More

New York, N.Y. Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated October 1950. First Separate Edition. 1-7, [1-blank] pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. (275 x 213 mm) Stapled wrappers, printed in grey, light blue, and black. Five holes punched at the spine as issued. A bright, clean copy. Fine. Wraps.

The..... More

[New York, NY]: [Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated] May 1959. First Separate Edition. 611-656 pages. 8 15/16 x 6 inches. (227 x 150 mm) Self-wrappers stapled at spine. All copies examined have one gathering (pages 611-642) plus pages 643-656 stapled at the rear (but not integral to a signature, each leaf..... More

Menasha, Wis., and Albany, N. Y. Mathematical Association of America. Inc. February 1950. First Edition. 73-146, [4] pages. 10 x 7 1/8 inches. Publisher's original printed blue wrappers. Heavily soiled front cover and first leaf. The paper by Shannon is found on pages 90-93. Upper corner bumped. A decent reading..... More

New York City: Bell Telephone Laboratories [no date stated]. [1]-5 pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. Typescript carbon on thin paper printed recto only. Paperclip affixed upper left with older rust stains visible. Provided WITH the final paper in offprint form: 90-93 pages. 10 x 7 1/8 inches. Publisher's..... More

New York: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. 1949. First Separate Edition. 1-40 pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches (275 x 213 mm) Original wrappers, printed in grey, light blue, and black. Stapled with five holes punched at the spine as issued. Creased lower right corner, staining to the rear cover..... More

New York City: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. [ no date ]. [1]-7 pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. Typescript carbon on thin paper printed recto only. Old paperclip upper left with some creasing/marking to the leaves. Provided with a copy of the published offprint: [1-blank], 148-151, [1-blank] pages. 8..... More

[no place of publication stated]: [no publisher stated] [no date stated]. [1]-5 pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. Typescript on thin typewriter paper typed on recto only. Stapled upper left. Stained. Two penciled corrections in an unknown hand (one typo, one number correction). The typewriter paper is watermarked "75%..... More

New York: American Institute of Electrical Engineers [AIEE] September 16, 1938. Later printing. [1]-11, 12 pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. Copied loose leaves stapled upper left. A later generation copy the MIT Preprint of the AIEE paper. Copy quality is not ideal, but it is readable and a...... More