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Doubleday, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. 325 pages. Ex-university library book, some discoloring, soiling to the covers, pages yellowed; a solid binding; else good overall. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Inventory No: 208574. .

Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1962. Hardcover. Good. 1962. No Edition Remarks. 32 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Pages are mildly tanned and foxed, heavier to endpapers, but text remains clear. Binding is firm. Pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards and spine have minimal shelf-wear, with mild corner bumping and crushing to ends. Spine and edges are heavily sunned. Gilt remains bright. Moderate rubbing and scuffing overall.

8vo., 325pp., Publisher's Oatmeal cloth titled in black and blue. Stated first edition. Signed by Teller to the half title page. Damp stain spot to the text block edge, minor foxing to edge of end pages. Sound binding, square. The DJ in mylar with $4.95 flap price intact has mild edgewear, few closed tears, small damp stain to rear flap edge and mild foxing to flaps and verso. 8" - 9" tall & Signed by the Author. Edward Teller (1908-2003) was a Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist. He is considered one of the fathers of the hydrogen bomb. Teller, along with Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner, helped urge President Roosevelt to develop an atomic bomb program in the United States. Teller joined the Los Alamos Laboratory in 1943 as group leader in the Theoretical Physics Division. Teller became interested in the possibility of developing a hydrogen bomb after Enrico Fermi suggested that a weapon based on nuclear fission could be used to set off an even larger nuclear fusion reaction. Teller continued… Leer más