Brighter Than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists
by Robert Jungk
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- Seller
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Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1958. First American Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. A very good stated first American edition in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Black cloth boards. Silver title stamping on spine. Yellow endpapers with previous owner's satmp on front pastedown. Dust jacket shows rubbing and some chipping at top edge. Binding a bit soft. Octavo. The first published account of the Manhattan Project and the German atomic bomb project. The book studied the making and dropping of the atomic bomb from the viewpoints of the atomic scientists. The book is largely based on personal interviews with persons who played leading parts in the construction and deployment of the bombs. --Wikipedia
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- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1241
- Title
- Brighter Than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists
- Author
- Robert Jungk
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- oppenheimer, atomic bomb, world war II, nuclear
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military History;
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Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...