Cherry, Colin. "A History of the Theory of Communication." Offprint: the Proceedings of the Institution of ELectrical Engineers. Vol 98, part III,No 55, September 1951. 11x8 inches. Page 383-393. Densely printed in double columns. Signed "with compliments" by Colin Cherry. Scarce in this format. $95
I will always remember Cherry (1914-1979) not so much for being a leading cognitive scientist whose work spilled across many discipline boundaries, but for his dedicating his magnum opus, The Theory of Human Communication, "to my dog Pym". (A story is told of Isaac Newton's dog, Diamond, destroying one of his manuscripts; another has Diamond writing two theorems before lunch one day, 'tho one had mistakes, and the other was wholly wrong.)
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