London: Secker & Warburg, (1985) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which loosely parallels the history of IBM and its founder Tom Watson. In this account, Marvel runs away from a hardscrabble farm in 1908 to hawk parlor organs in the Midwest, then to sell cash registers and tabulators, and eventually to found a data-processing company. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "T --- best wishes for the rousing novel you're writing." 421 pp. ISBN: 0-436191407.