I am the original owner of this book. I acquired it in mid to late 1980s when I was working at Bell Labs. Never used it. It has been sitting on bookshelves ever since and moved a couple of times as I have moved around. I have provided pictures of the dust jacket and the hardcover of it. There are no markings on the internal pages of it. It is like new. Both the hardcover and the dust jacket are in excellent condition. The only markings are my name stamped (small text) on the edges of the book.
Not a light read. Written before the Bell System monopoly break up but published in 1983. Very useful as I did a lot of telecommunications programming back in the day. Pretty dated now but a through look at historical engineering as an over overview.