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The Atom at Work
by Jacob Sacks
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: The Ronald Press, 1951 The Ronald Press, New York. 1951. Hardcover. 2nd Printing from (2) on the CR page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: light shelfwear to head, tail, tips and board bottom edges. DJ: Fair; Price Clipped: missing pieces at head, tail, tips, and tops of panels; overall toning; lightly sunfaded spine. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and front board. 327 pp 8vo. With the end of WWII, the general public was anxious to learn more about the atom and nuclear energy. The purpose of this books was to present the whole story of atomic energy in a readable and understandable style. The first half of the book is a history of the events that led up to the Curies' discovery of radioactivity. The second half is a progress report on how isotopes are being used today to make a better and more helpful world. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015954
- Title
- The Atom at Work
- Author
- Jacob Sacks
- Illustrator
- George R. Cox
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Ronald Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1951
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- nuclear energy, atomic energy, Marie Curie, radioactivity, atom bomb, nuclear weapons, isotopes, radiation sickness, weapons of war, WWII, World War II, U235, fission fragments, Los Alamos, Alamogordo, Trinity Site,
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Edges
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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