The Soul of a New Machine (1981) Signed First Edition Reference

The Soul of a New Machine (Little, Brown and Company, 1981) is Kidder’s Pulitzer Prize–winning account of the engineers at Data General racing to design a next-generation minicomputer. The book captures the obsessive, caffeine-fueled culture of hardware engineering with a novelist’s eye for character and drama. It remains the template for embedded technology narratives — the direct ancestor of books like Hatching Twitter and Bad Blood.

Signed Copy Market Values

• Signed first in jacket: $50–$125
• Unsigned first in jacket: $15–$30

A tech-collecting crossover title — valued by both literary nonfiction collectors and Silicon Valley historians.