Lord Zuckerman (62 results)

Condition: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket is in brodart, light wear. Boards have light wear. Usual library markings. Pages are tanning in margins, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and tears.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,150grams, ISBN:0903400871.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 480pp. b/w illustrations. Published for The Zoological Society of London - Number 33.

Staplebound Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Lightly bumped and rubbed. Previous owner's name on the title page, underlining. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: Good. Little wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning and some spotting. Good DJ with toning and price clipped.

Glossy Pictorial Card. Condition: Very Good Contents Very Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. Grubby cover.Please email for further details Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Colour Photographs Throughout (illustrator). Not Inscribed or Signed.

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some minor edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners bumped, price clipped with bottom quarter of inside flap clipped away, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 159pp. Published to mark the 50th anniversary of the foundation of Whipsnade Zoo.…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,900grams, ISBN.…

Hard covers, dust jacket. Condition: V.g. V.g. 1st edition. Jacket price-clipped. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. (Ref. B4) fair condition; with DJ; marks and creases on DJ; a few marks on the fore-edge; scratch and marks on blue cloth board cover; gilt spine; clean throughout.

Hard. Condition: Good. Second printing thus. Good. Lacking dust jacket. Publishers pictorial laminated casing, laminate cracking and bubbling. Average wear. Clean, sound and bright throughout. Profusely illustrated in colour, from photographs, throughout. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 256 pp colour plates, bw illustrations, green cloth with gilt titles. Edges to covers a little sunned, boards slightly bowed, about half to pages have a water stain and cockling to top edges , solid copy in a sound dust wrapper. Signed and dedicated by author on title page. Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd impression, 1981. Original pictorial wrappers a little age-rubbed. Illustration after Albrecht Durer. Pages clean & tight. No inscriptions. 64 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing of the first edition in very good condition. With eight pages of photographs at the centre of the book. A well-presented history or nuclear fission from the early years of the 20th Century onwards, told with the benefit of recently-released material in the Public Records Office. ***Very good in red cloth-covered boards with block-gilt titles to the spine. The boards are nice and clean, and the gilt is still beautifully bright. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. No bumps. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight with the page block slightly pulled away (heavy paper stock used). Page block edges just lightly foxed. Internally also very good with no inscriptions or annotations. Interior pages are clean. No foxing. No creases or tears. ***In a very good monochrome-illustrated dustwrapper, which is unpriced. The dustwrapper is complete, with just the slightest of rubbing at the extremities, and slight creasing to the top and tail of the spine. No other creases, chips or tears. No fading. Dustwrapper crisp and bright. ***240mm x 160mm. 342 pages including a detailed section of Bibliography, Notes and References and Index at the back of the book. ***Contents: Part One: PROLOGUE TO A DISCOVERY 1 From the Greeks to the Edwardians, 2 Towards the Greatest Power on Earth, 3 "At Variance with All Previous Experience", Part Two: GREAT EXPECTATIONS 4 A Problem for Committees, 5 Progress with a Plan, 6 An Awkward Decision of state, 7 All Honourable Men, 8 Sowing the wind, 9 Letting Matters Drift, 10 A Trace of Indecision, 11 Over the Brink, Part Three: ON TO THE DARKLING PLAIN 12. "An Entirely New Situation", 13 agreement to Disagree, 14 The Whirlwind arrives, 15 A Small Cloud on the Horizon, 16 Power or Peril, 17 Close of Play? - Bibliography, Notes and References, Index. ***'When did men first try to unleash the power locked within the atom? How was nuclear fission missed during the mid-1930s and discovered on the eve of the second world war? Did the Americans, during the war, unscrupulously use European discoveries? Or were they justified in thinking that the British were, even then, concentrating on post-war nuclear power? Was Truman or Churchill mainly responsible for trying to hoodwink Stalin at Potsdam? How did a cable-coding error lead to the Quebec Agreement under which commercial nuclear advantages after the war would be dealt with "on terms to be specified by the President of the United States to the Prime Minister of Great Britain?"' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***'Nuclear fission is a reaction in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller nuclei. The fission process often produces neutrons and gamma rays, and releases a very large amount of energy even by the energetic standards of radioactive decay. The free energy released by the fission of one uranium-235 atom is about 100 million times the energy released by burning one carbon atom in air to produce CO2. Nuclear fission was discovered by chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann and physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch. Hahn and Strassmann proved that a fission reaction had taken place on 19 December 1938, and Meitner and her nephew Frisch explained it theoretically in January 1939. Frisch named the process "fission" by analogy with biological fission of living cells. In their second publication on nuclear fission in February 1939, Hahn and Strassmann predicted the existence and liberation of additional neutrons during the fission process, opening up the possibility of a nuclear chain reaction by assembling a critical mass of fissile material.' (Wiki) ***A first edition of this fascinating study of the discovery of Nuclear Fission. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Former Library book. A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 36pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First US edition (printed in Great Britain). Very good copy in very good dust jacket, with one small chip at top right corner of spine panel of jacket and a slight indentation in the same spot in the cloth of the book. Contributors are Zuckerman, P. J. S. Olney, M. R. Bramhall, Marcia A. Edwards, C. G. C. Rawlins, and J. W. Toovey. Zuckerman contributes an introductory historical article on "The Rise of Zoos and Zoological Societies." Other contributors report on the history, activities, and animal collections of zoos in Paris, London, West and East Berlin, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Frankfurt, Philadelphia, Basel, Sydney, Tokyo, Washington, New York (Bronx), Peking, St. Louis, San Diego, Prague, Toronto, and special collections such as Jersey. Uncommon.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 480 pages; Description: xiv, 480 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. "This Symposium was held to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Grafton Elliot Smith. " Subject: Smith, Grafton Elliot, Sir (1871-1937) --Human evolution --Primates --Evolution --Congresses. Series: Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, no. 33 2 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. 1st Edition. 1st edition, fine, unopened. Crutchley was Cambridge University Printer for 22 years, this is a tribute to him upon his retirement.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 480 pages; Description: xiv, 480 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. "This Symposium was held to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Grafton Elliot Smith. " Subject: Smith, Grafton Elliot, Sir (1871-1937) --Human evolution --Primates --Evolution --Congresses. Series: Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, no. 33 2 Kg.…

Octavo,232 pp.,photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper.