Own a piece of Unix history. These two books come from a prestigious R&D center, and define and describe Unix.

These are:AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal Oct 1984 Vol 63 No 8 Pt 2 UNIX System and the  Sun Microsystems Technical report on Unix.

The first book was the first public introduction and description by the researchers at AT&T/Bell Labs. The second was the introduction of the first commercially successful Unix workstation.

The authors include Aho, Richie, Pike, Kernigan, Morris. Stroustrup, and many more very famous computer scientists

Contents include

• Foreword A. V. Aho (one of the creators of AWK)
• The Evolution of the UNIX Time-sharing System - Dennis. M. Ritchie
• Program Design in the UNIX System Environment R. Pike and Brian. W. Kernighan
• The Blit: A Multiplexed Graphics Terminal - R. Pike
• Debugging C Programs With The Blit - T. Cargill
• UNIX Operating System Security F. T. Grampp and Robbert. H. Morris
• File Security and the UNIX System Crypt Command - J. A. Reeds and P. J. Weinberger
• The Evolution of C-Past and Future - L. Rosler
• Data Abstraction in C - B. Stroustrup (C++ fame)
• Multiprocessor UNIX Systems - M. J. Bach and S. J. Buroff
• A UNIX System Implementation for System/370 - W. A. Felton, G. L. Miller, and J. M. Milner
• UNIX Operating System Porting Experiences - اD. E. Bodenstab, T. F. Houghton, K. A. Kelleman,
• G. Ronkin, and E. P. Schan
• The Evolution of UNIX System Performance - J. Feder, P. J. Weinberger
• Theory and Practice in the Construction of a Working Sort Routine - J. P. Linderman
• The Fair Share Scheduler - G. J. Henry
• The Virtual Protocol Machine - M. J. Fitton, C. J. Harkness, K. A. Kelleman, P. F. Log, and C. Mee III
• A Network of Computers Running the UNIX System -T. E. Fritz, J. E. Hefner, and T. M. Raleigh
• A Stream Input-Output System -D. M. Ritchie 

As you can see, this is a who's who list of authors and topics, and these articals shaped OS development for decades.

The second volume is Sun Microsystems Technical Report on UNIX. This was a description of the first commercially successful Unix workstation. It covers the history, philosophy, architecture, organization, the graphic user interface and an introduction to the Unix shell and basic commands.

Any computer historian would love to own these two books. The Sun report, for instances, explains the true reason and the terrible pun used to come up with the phrase "UNIX".

Both these books are in good condition. Both have the owner's name written on them. The Sun report has some bending of the pages as ahown.