An American genius : the life of Ernest Orlando Lawrence
by Herbert Childs
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 052505443X
- ISBN 13
- 9780525054436
- Seller
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Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
SIGNED: first edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket Signed by the author, Signed by Leslie Groves (Manhattan Project), Signed by Glenn Seaborg (Nobel Prize, Atomic Energy Commission, Manhattan Project), Signed by Edwin McMillan (Nobel Prize, Manhattan Project, Los Alamos, Synchrotron, Neptunium), Signed by Edward Teller (hydrogen bomb, Manhattan Project), and Signed on a bookplate affixed to front paste-down by others at the dedication of the Lawrence Hall of Science at CalBerkeley; the text is unmarked; minimal age tone; tight bind; clean cloth cover vivid titling; dj has little rub wear to back panel and a faint sticker shadow to the front panel, but no tears; flap price present M76ambib
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- Bookseller
- DrPanglossBooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 918501
- Title
- An American genius : the life of Ernest Orlando Lawrence
- Author
- Herbert Childs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- ISBN 10
- 052505443X
- ISBN 13
- 9780525054436
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Place of Publication
- E-14
- Date Published
- 1968
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- First Edition
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- Bookplate
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.