Finlayson Jc (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket issued. 1st Edition. Book - good (covers rubbed). Paperback.

Softbound Edition 119pp, Illustrations, Plates Maps A Vg Copy.

Condition: near fine. near fine. hbk 119pp illus maps b+w drawings dj shelfworn with some wrinkling at rear and one or two closed tears now in protective sleeve otherwise an unread copy internally excellent clean tight unmarked as new.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good, plus some; see scans and description. Chicago: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science,1975. The September, 1975 issue of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, that being Volume 31, Number 7. The famous and historic Doomsday Clock - shown on each cover or title page since 1947, two years after the publication's inception - here shows the time to be nine minutes of midnight as of late 1975. Quarto, illustrated staple-bound wraps, 56 pp. Very Good; original addressee label on front cover, some light soiling to covers; inevitable page-toning within is moderate; no other flaws. A handsome example; see all scans. Established in 1945 by biophysicist Eugene Rabinowitch and physicist Hyman Goldsmith in response to a correctly-perceived demand for nuclear information at the time by the general public, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is without doubt the most historically significant non-technical publication on the subject of "'global security and public policy issues related to the dangers posed by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, climate change,[2] and emerging technologies and diseases". Hence, over the years, BAS has become a geopolitical instrument, rather than a nuclear watchdog alone. Feature articles in this vintage 1975 issue: Nuclear Violence; Lawrence Livermore Lab; UN Agencies; Reactor Safety; Uranium Tailings; NPT Review; more. See scan of contents. Contributors include Samuel H. Day Jr. (Editor); Paul R. Ehrlich; Stuart A. Rice; Herbert F.York; Joel Primack; Fred Finlayson; Norman Rasmussen; Robert Weatherwax; Herbert J.C. Kouts; Frank von Hippel; Hans Bethe; David Dinsmore Comey; William Epstein; et al. Very, very scarce as the original monthly softcover issue. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. LPR58.…

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1980. As new hardcover with dust jacket. Systematic list. Black and white photographs. Maps.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Publisher - The Gibraltar Bookshop, Gibraltar, 1980. 1st ed. SCARCE. Ex library with one stamp to title page with classification number neatly in ink. Book is otherwise near fine condition, tight binding, no other marks, looks hardly read. Unclipped pictorial jacket near fine in protective sleeve, no lettering to white spine. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Melbourne, Arbuckle, Waddell Pty. Ltd. [Printers, for the Author], 1925. Small octavo, 76 pages (first four blank) with 20 illustrations. Original green overlapping wrappers printed in gold; covers a little worn and marked; minor signs of handling; a very good copy. 'Much is being said at the present time for and against the construction of an overland railway, the possibility of large tracts of so-called desert country carrying stock and providing water from underground, and climatic conditions for the settlement of white people in the interior. This little book merely deals with what was my own experience during a sojourn of two and a half years in the centre of Australia' (foreword). Jean Finlayson spent the time (from February 1914) as a nurse at Oodnadatta Hospital; with considerable Aboriginal content.…