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The Curve of Binding Energy
by McPhee, John
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1974. First Edition. First printing Fine in dark red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 1/4" by 5 1/2" with a faint, inconsequential 2 inch oval stain to the front board. In a near fine unclipped dust jacket with a minor, faint 1 1/2 inch red crayon mark at the upper edge of the rear panel. "A journey into the awesome and alarming world of Theodore B. Taylor...one of the most inventive nuclear scientist of our time." 232 pages of text. A clean, tight and bright copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
Synopsis
Theodore Taylor was known as one of the most brilliant yet widely unknown engineers of the nuclear age. In his later years, he became concerned by the possibility of an individual able to create a weapon of mass destruction on their own. In this book, McPhee tours American nuclear institutions with Taylor and reveals how close we are to terrorist attacks using homemade nuclear weaponry.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB29279
- Title
- The Curve of Binding Energy
- Author
- McPhee, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
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Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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- Octavo
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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