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FAIL-SAFE.
by Burdick, Eugene Wheeler, Harvey
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG++/VG++
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Imp: 1st. Date of Publication: 1964* Publisher: The Companion Book Club in association with Hutchinson and Co.* Binding and cover condition: Orange cloth, gilt title to maroon spine label. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine, very slight spine lean. VG++* Jacket condition: Red & white design to dust wrapper, white titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of 5/3d. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges particularly to top of flap folds. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Top edge coloured (black). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight spotting to fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 224 pp. text. ii pp., blank pages at rear.* Description: Set in the late sixties 'Fail Safe' delivers a tale of computer error and misplaced human faith in machines to control our desires for war and peace. A tiny error in a non-descript machine, buried in a mountain leads to 'Group Six', a collection of US Air Force Vindicator bombers, progressing beyond their fail safe position and into Soviet territory to deliver 20 megaton bombs to Moscow. Desperate attempts by the US military and the President (heavily based on Kennedy but never directly implied) to counteract the aircraft leads to intense communications with Khrushchev and the Soviet military and, ultimately, to a decision being made which challenges the very sanity of all involved.* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st/1st thus, with some minor faults in a VG++ dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1142
- Title
- FAIL-SAFE.
- Author
- Burdick, Eugene Wheeler, Harvey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG++/VG++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn. Thus,
- Publisher
- The Companion Book Club
- Place of Publication
- Borough Green, Kent, UK 226
- Date Published
- 1964-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
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- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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