Higgins Edward, Signed (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Signed and Inscribed by the author Edward Higgins. Publication of 301 pages. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed, damp marks and a few scuffed marks on the back cover, the last few pages are slightly wavy. Internally there are minor pencil markings and underlining's within the body of the book. The text is legible. The binding is strong. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Original Photograph. Original Nasa Photograph ["Nasa S-65-26763" In White Area At Top] Of Apollo 1 Astronaut Edward H White And His Wife, Facing Camera And Two Media Interviewers. Inscribed "To Murphy- Thank You For The Great Coverage On 6T-4! Edward H White / To Murphy Martin With Much Appreciation For Your Cooperation On 6Ttv Pat White." Photograph Mounted On Black Card, 1" Tear At Lower Corner With No Loss. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A set six of the avant-garde periodical Assembling. Instead of selecting from submissions presented to it, Richard Kostelanetz (and, at various times, Henry James Korn, Mike Metz, Scott Helmes, and David Cole) invited potential contributors to submit a thousand copies of whatever they wanted to include, which were then alphabetically assembled into 8.5 by 11 inch books. Published by Ghilbmessa Inc. (First number) and then by Assembling Press, New York between 1970-1981. Edition of 1000. Overall excellent, well-preserved copies with minor edge-wear and age-toning, some mildly bumped corners, oversized pages in some issues creased at fore-edges. Very Good or better with no major flaws, no internal markings - all in custom protective mylar. Notably - front panel of Issue 1, which is printed on lighter paper than subsequent issues, has small closed tears at the staples - loosely attached thus. Issue 4 has a closed, diagonal tear with creasing at the spine near bottom edge - not affecting binding. Please inquire for further, thorough descriptions of condition of individual issues. Issue 1 (1970) features mixed-media contributions from Edward Ruscha (Chocolate smear by the artist), Dan Graham, Bernadette Mayer, Vito Acconci, Madeline Gins, Arakawa, Hannah Weiner, Robert Lax et al. Second Assembling (1971) features the work of Jochen Gerz, Davi Det Hompson, Clemente Padin, Alan Sondheim and Nicholas Zurbrugg et al. Third Assembling (1972), which was collated and bound by an anonymous fireman and his family, includes contributions from artists such as John Baldessari, John Furnival, Roni Hoffman, Elizabet Ginsberg, Ruth Krauss and Joseph Phillips. Fourth Assembling (1973) contains work by: Jean-Jacques Cory, Wally Depew, Dick Higgins, Nancy Henderson, Mad Dog et al. Fifth Assembling (1975) features artistic contributions by Eric Anderson, Bruce Andrews, Scott Hyde, Shoichi Kiyokawa, Thomas Macauley, Jonathan Price and Karl Young among many others. Sixth Assembling features works by Bob Aab, Anna Banana, A.F. Caldiero, Robin Crozier, Veronica Drew, Bill Gaglione & Tim Mancusi, Joe Johnson etc. Seventh Assembling features contributions by, among others, Rene Aeberhard, Bruce Andrews and Eduardo Ballerini. Eighth Assembling (1978) was split into two (A-J) and (K-Z) and includes avant-garde contributions from artists such as Charlton Burgh, Charles Ewert, Michael Gibbs and Richard Grayson in the first, and Valery Oisteanu, Douglas Turnbaugh and Nancy Wolf in the second. Ninth Assembly (1979) constitutes a 'critical' anthology. Tenth Assembling features contributions by Allan Coleman, Bonnie Donohue, Rimma & Valery Gerlovin and Tom Persons. Eleventh Assembling (1981), subtitled "Pilot Proposals" includes contributions by Agnes Denes, Bern Porter and Richard Meltzer, among others. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, first printing, signed by the authors and inscribed by Johnson, "To Bill Bascom - With thanks and appreciation for your long-standing interest in and support of the Plowshare Program. Jerry Johnson, Washington D.C., August 3, 1968." This is the first technical monograph on the peaceful applications of nuclear explosions as developed by Project Plowshare. This work was a collaborative effort between several distinguished physicists led by Edward Teller (1908-2003), the "father of the hydrogen bomb". Gerald W. Johnson (1917-2005) served as director of Project Plowshare; this was the United States's attempt to develop techniques using nuclear energy for industry and construction between 1957-77. Wilson K. Talley (1935-2017) was a nuclear engineer who served as a science advisor to the Department of Defense and Presidents Ford and Reagan. Gary H. Higgins (1927-2002) was a radiochemist who served as Division Leader of Plowshare. The recipient of this copy was the engineer Willard Bascom (1916-2000). Bascom was the director of Project Mohole, an attempt between 1961-66 to drill through the Earth's crust to obtain samples of the Mohorovi i discontinuity. Bascom served as President of the Plowshare Advisory Committee and conducted research on wave behaviour in the detonation of nuclear weapons in the South Pacific. Although supportive of the project, he was opposed to Project Chariot, the proposition to construct an artificial harbour at Cape Thompson in Alaska (Ogle, p. 170). Project Chariot was championed by Teller, but never came to fruition due to concerns about the effect on the local environment and community. The Constructive Uses of Nuclear Explosives offers a guide to the technical activities of the programme, focussing predominantly on excavation and mining but also on other engineering and scientific potentialities such as geophysical research and petroleum production. The project had a particular application to canals; due to the Suez Crisis of 1956, the potential of constructing an alternative canal through friendly territory was discussed by scientists at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, California on the instruction of President Eisenhower. Although the alternative canal was never built, the proposition of using nuclear energy for peaceful construction purposes raised at the meeting led to the formation of Project Plowshare. Along with offering technical details, this work refers to the "emotional problem" of the project: "The first use of nuclear explosives, in war, displayed their destructive potential, and this characteristic still captures the imagination. That there may be resistance to their use for constructive purposes is consequently not surprising" (p. v). The reframing of nuclear weapons was a key concern for the US Government; in his farewell address of 1961, President Eisenhower expressed his hope that "American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well", and in 1987 President Reagan famously asked the United Nations General Assembly "cannot swords be turned to plowshares?" William E. Ogle, An Account of the Return to Nuclear Weapons Testing by the United States After the Test Moratorium 1958-1961, 1985. Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine and covers lettered in green and black. With dust jacket. Numerous photographs, diagrams, and charts within text. Spine ends slightly bruised, cloth extremities and edges foxed, faint browning to endpapers, contents clean; jacket foxed, extremities nicked, spine panel a little faded, unclipped: a very good copy in very good jacket.