THE PRICE OF POWER by Hanson W. Baldwin - 1948

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947. First Edition. fair to good, partial only. 22 cm, 361, endpaper maps, bibliography, appendices, index, DJ flaps and rear DJ cut off and pasted inside rear board & flyleaf. Blue pencil underlining on several pages. Published for the Council on Foreign Relations. This work addresses the impact of the atomic bomb on the defense of the United States, and was the result of 18 meetings of the Study Group on National Power and Foreign Policy, chaired by Baldwin. Participants included I. I. Rabi and James Shotwell.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full navy cloth. B&W map endpapers. xii, 361 pp. Chafing to extremities. Ink stamp to head of ffep. Dust jacket is price clipped, chipped to extremities (with some minor loss to spine head and head of front cover), rubbed to covers, a few short and longer tears.

Harper & Brothers. New York. 1947. Black cloth boards with Harper's blind stamp on front board and gilt lettering to spine. Map endpapers. Bump on front board, top and bottom of spine bumped. First edition (stated) with correct B-X printer's (month/year) code. Inscribed by author on verso of the flyleaf. Unclipped ($3.75) jacket has 1 inch closed tear on top of rear, small chipping on edges and a five inch closed linear tear on front of spine. Jacket now protected with removable mylar cover. Included is a Memorandum from the desk of Turner Catledge that references this copy being gifted to Elaine. Mr. Catledge was an American journalist for the New York Times and managing editor from 1952-1964. Mr. Baldwin (1903-1991) was an American journalist and long-time military editor of the New York Times. During WW II Baldwin wrote about the South Pacific, North Africa and Europe. His dispatches from Guadalcanal the Western Pacific won him the Pulitzer in 1943. "Now that science and technology are perfecting… Read More