Harrison Brown Editor (21 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

dvd. Condition: Good.

Condition: As New.

Karel Thole [DJ] (illustrator). Hardcover. BCE. DJ: Minimal edge wear. Navy boards with silver gilt spine text. Prior owner's Ex-Libros plate obverse upper board. Else tight and square. Scarce/rare/hard to find/out of print. SCIFI/FANTASY/SHORTSTORIES/SERIES.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [1st printing](1965) #R-1227. Cover art by Gaughan. Paperback original. Includes "A Way of Life" by Robert Bloch; "Be of Good Cheer" by Fritz Leiber; "This Majesty of Earth" by Arthur C. Clarke; "A Thing of Custom" by L. Sprague de Camp; "Prison Break" by Miriam Allen de Ford; "The Eyes Have It" by Randall Garrett; "Murderer's Chain" by Wenzell Brown; "Fall of Knight" by Bertram Chandler; "The K-Factor" by Harry Harrison; "The Wolfram Hunters" by Edward D. Hoch. Tanning; creasing; minor edge tears. Book.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Jack Gaughan (front cover) (illustrator). First Edition. ----------paperback. A 173-page first edition paperback original science fiction anthology. Modest shelfwear, a likely unread near fine copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDName in ink half-title page else very good-used book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 238 pp. Original blue cloth covers, very bright and clean. Spine ends bumped. Light soiling to edges of text block. DJ moderately soiled w/ wear to edges. Pen mark to front panel of DJ. Illust. w/ numerous b/w photos. Contents very nice.

Condition: Good. Shelfwear to the dust jacket which has been wrapped in a plastic cover. Reading content is fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine; see scans and description. Chicago: Atomic Scientists of Chicago, 1972. The June, 1972 issue of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The famous and historic Doomsday Clock - shown on each cover since 1947, two years after the publication's inception - here shows the time to be eight minutes of midnight as of mid-1972. Quarto, illustrated staple-bound wraps, 56 pp. Near Fine; no salient flaws. Addressee's mailing label on rear cover, and a few small spots of dust are about it. 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, and emerging technologies and diseases". Hence, over the years, BAS has become a geopolitical instrument, rather than a nuclear watchdog alone. Some feature articles and contributors in this vintage 1972 issue: SALT II & Moscow Summit; Radiation Risks; Ethics of "Environment"; Shoreham Controversy & Lloyd Harbor Study Group; Population Skeletons; One-Dimensional Ecology; Harrison Brown; Daniel C. Drucker; Myron T. Tribus; George McGovern; Hubert Humphrey; Philip Sporn. More, of course; see scan of contents. Very, very scarce as the original monthly softcover issue. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. LPR29.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 2nd edition. 386 pages. 9.90x6.90x1.20 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good, approaching Near Fine; see scans and description. Chicago: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, 1985. The November, 1985 issue of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Anita Kunz cover art. The famous and historic Doomsday Clock - shown on each cover since 1947, two years after the publication's inception - here shows the time to be just 3 minutes of midnight as of late 1985. That's about as close as it had been to that point. Quarto, illustrated staple-bound wraps, 57 pp. A stout Very Good; subscriber's label at front cover, faint age-toning at perimeter of the white covers; no other exterior flaws, and the interior is quite literally as new and immaculate. See scans. Firmly bound, contents bright, tipped-in cardstock offers remain untouched. A sturdy 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 - a geopolitical instrument that became more than a nuclear watchdog. Feature articles in this now-vintage 1987 issue: U.S.-Soviet Summit (11th); Weapons Design Impedes Test Ban; Spent Nuclear Fuel and Waste; Gorbachev's Policy Innovations; Sea Provocations; Les Aspin; Pugwash Council . More, of course. A more-activist-than-average issue. Contributors include Harrison Brown (Editor); William M. Arkin; John Isaacs; Hugh E. DeWitt; Gerald E. Marsh; Coit D. Blacker; Archie Brown; Alan B. Sherr; Sidney N. Graybeal; Michael Krepon; Jack N. Barkenbus; Alvin M. Weinberg; Marcelo Alonso; William F. Lawless; Paul Good. Very scarce as the original monthly softcover issue. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. LPR44.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 2nd edition. 380 pages. 10.10x1.60x7.20 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Russ Manning, Ralph Rayburn Phillips, Waible, Cockroft freres (illustrator). 1st Edition. Los Angeles: Gus Willmorth, 1948. Volume II, No. 4, the November, 1947 issue of Fantasy Advertiser. Cover by Russ Manning; interior art by Ralph Rayburn Phillips, Waible, Cockroft freres. Octavo, stapled wraps, 39 numbered pages. A very rare Fine copy, with only the inevitable modest toning to the paper. Highest grade. Very sharp, undamaged copy. An early copy of the fanzine; mostly ads, book lists, and events, and in this issue several articles: "Of Nova Tomes (W.A. Liebacher); "The Road to Eldorado" (Fred Brown); "Fankind's Fanzines" (R.A. Elcun), and "H.P. Lovecraft" a lengthy (for a fanzine) piece by Michael Harrison, illustrated by Ralph Rayburn Phillips, on the horror luminary, reprinted from "Phoenix", who reprinted it from the British journal Prediction. A classic issue from a fanzine classic from the golden age of sci-fi, replete with ads, sale and auction notifications, publications notices, and more, all focused on science fiction, fantasy and horror, of course. L37n.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 362 Pp. Green And Black Cloth, Gilt. First Printing. Fine In Near Fine, Unfaded Dust Jacket Priced $6.00, Light Wear, Shipping Across Top Spine Edge. Serious Articles, Almost Certainly The First Book Printing Of The Feynman Talks And Also The Oppenheimer Talk At Caltech.

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Photographjs Throughout, (illustrator). First Edition. 60 Pp.Softcover. Text Of A Symposium. Sample Copy From The Caltech Archives, But No Marks At All Except A Stray Pen Line 1/2" Long On Front Cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 823 pages. 10.25x7.25x2.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 362 Pp. Green And Black Cloth, Gilt. First Printing. Fine In Near Fine, Unfaded Dust Jacket Priced $6.00. Serious Articles, Almost Certainly The First Book Printing Of The Feynman Talks And Also The Oppenheimer Talk At Caltech.

8vo. viii, 686 pp. Original blue-green gilt-stamped cloth; fading to spine, small sticker removed. Embossed stamp of the Carnegie Institution, Mount Wilson Observatory. Very good. The study of meteorites by Brown and his students led to the first close approximation of the age of the Earth and the solar system. / Associate editors: Gunnar Kullerud and Walter Nichiporuk (of Cal-Tech, he is most likely the reason this book is here (i.e., Cal-Tech is next door to Pasadena's Mount Wilson Observatory). Probably the remarkable aspect of this bibliography is that the items are all arranged in chronological order from the 15th century to the present [1950]. / Harrison Scott Brown was an American nuclear chemist and geochemist. He was a political activist, who lectured and wrote on the issues of arms limitation, natural resources and world hunger. During World War II, Brown worked at the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory and Clinton Engineer Works, where he worked on ways to separate plutonium from uranium.

Oblong 4to, 21x30cm. Pp. 686, author index, journal index. Bound in two volumes, stiff plain wrappers, printed title label to spine. - Two book pages arranged to one copy page, copy quality very good. The original edition is very scarce. - [gkt.ds.1005A].