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Sputnik, Scientists and Eisenhower: A Memoir of the First Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
by James Killian
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0262110660
- ISBN 13
- 9780262110662
- Seller
-
Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
SIGNED: first edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket Signed by the author on the front free end page: a publisher's felt pen mark outside text block fore-edge, text pages unmarked; tight bind; clean cloth cover bright titling; dj edge wear: small nicks at spine head; little rub to dj panels and folds Sci
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- Bookseller
- DrPanglossBooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 918739
- Title
- Sputnik, Scientists and Eisenhower: A Memoir of the First Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
- Author
- James Killian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- ISBN 10
- 0262110660
- ISBN 13
- 9780262110662
- Publisher
- Mit Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Ma
- Date Published
- 1977
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