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London, United Kingdom: Michael Joseph, 1982 First Edition. 578pp. Original dustjacket not price clipped. Slight shelf and age wear especially to jacket. Paper has tanned with age especially around edges. Initial and date of previous owner on first endpaper on the top right hand corner. Otherwise no internal markings - clean text pages. Contents: Prologue; Part One: The Forties - Original Sin, The Act of Obedience, A Most Deadly Illusion, The Atomic Archipelago, The Poor Relation, The One-Eyed Kings; Part Two: The Fifties - The Fates and the Furies, The Power of Les X, A Separate World, The Admiral, The Perennial Fountain, What Are You Doing, The Uncertified Possibility, The First Ice Age, The Outcasts; Part Three: The Sixties - Like Butter in the Sun, Foolish Dreams, Transitory, Dangerous and Degrading, Listen World; Part Four: The Seventies - The Boom Years, A Shell of the Atom, A Tale of Two Dynasties, A Certain Event, The Buddha is Smiling, Pride and Prejudice, The Second Ice Age, In the…
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THE NUCLEAR BARONS: The Inside Story of How They Created Our Nuclear Nightmare
by Pringle, Peter & Spigelman, James
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Nothing Like Leather
by Pritchett, V.S.
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London, U.K.: Chatto & Windus, 1935 Age and shelf wear - no dustjacket. Orange boards. Corners and edges of boards rubbed & bumped - spine top and tail rubbed - spine sun faded. One inch whitish mark on spine below title. Otherwise tight binding, no pages missing, no markings to pages, clean text pages.This was Pritchett's third novel about a provincial tannery and people whose lives are centered around it - the main character: Mathew Burkle. It was based on his own work experience in the leather trade. One of last century's masters of the short story. He was knighted in 1975 and died in 1997 at age 96. The novel is divided into four sections: Book 1: The Innocence of Mathew Burkle; Book 2: The Temptation of Mathew Burkle; Book 3: The Fall of Mathew Burkle; Book 4: The Rise of the Women.
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