Atom by Thomson, First Edition (9 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good in wrappers. Shelf rubbing. Creases along spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Introduced by Sir George Thomson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Very good: NO markings/writings on text. All pages are clean and intact. Dust jacket in very good condition; has been preserved by plastic cover via previous owner--library. **WILL SHIP WITHIN 24-48 HOURS WITH TRACKING**.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Xxxi, 654 Pp. Blue Cloth. Second Printing Stated. Fine, No Wear, No Marks.

Stapled blue covers. First edition (& 1st printing). Collection of cartoons and drawing of sf fan artist Arthur Thomson, otherwise known as ''Atom''. Edited and published by Vincent Clarke. LIMITED EDITION: 100 numbered copies printed. This is no 31. Fine copy.

Stapled pictorial covers. First edition thus (& 1st printing). Collection of cartoons and drawing of sf fan artist Arthur Thomson, otherwise known as ''Atom''. 100 pages: edited and published by Ken Cheslin, introduction by John Berry. LIMITED EDITION: 30 numbered copies printed. This is no 13. Fine (as new) copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Home University Library series. Spine is very slightly faded but orange coloured lettering is legible. Neat contemporary dedication on the front free in the author's initials dated Aug 10th 1930. Inscribed by Author(s).

Fanzine. First edition (& 1st printing). The first collection of cartoons and drawing of sf fan artist Arthur Thomson, otherwise known as ''Atom''. 108 page mimeographed fanzine, : edited and published by Ken Cheslin. THIS COPY INSCRIBED BY BOTH THE EDITOR AND ARTHUR THOMSON TO UK AUTHOR (and fan) E. C. TUBB. Numbered no 36 (through the print-run not given). Very uncommon sf fanzine. VG+ copy, a little occasional spotting to front cover.

Stapled pictorial covers. First edition (& 1st printing). Collection of cartoons and drawing of sf fan artist Arthur Thomson, otherwise known as ''Atom''. 114 pages: edited and published by Ken Cheslin. LIMITED EDITION: 80 numbered copies printed. This is no 23. INSCRIBED BY EDITOR CHESLIN TO SF AUTHOR TED TUBB, WITH A SHORT TYPED SIGNED LETTER FROM TUBB TO THE EDITOR CHESLIN LAID IN (with Cheslin's 40-word handwritten reply added). Fine (as new) copy.

1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE BRACE EXPERIMENT, "THE FIRST OPTICAL EXPERIMENT MEASURING THE RELATIVE MOTION OF EARTH AND THE LUMINIFEROUS AETHER WHICH WERE SUFFICIENTLY PRECISE TO DETECT MAGNITUDES OF SECOND ORDER TO V/C" (Wikipedia). Brace's results were negative, "which was of gret importance for the development of the Lorentz transformation and consequently of the theory of relativity" (ibid). The American physicist and specialist in optics "examined the question [of] whether the Earth's motion may cause a body to become doubly refracting," something which as first sight might be expected (PRNAAS, 1904, 6, 809). Earlier in his career, Brace developed "extremely sensitive optical techniques" to one of the critical problems of the time (Dictionary of Scientific Biography, II, 382). "Two years earlier, Lord Rayleigh had proposed that the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction, if it existed, might produce an observable double refraction in a moving transparent medium. Rayleigh made experiments in which he failed to find the predicted effect, but his work was not quite accurate enough to be conclusive. Brace pointed this out and reconducted the investigation in his own laboratory, establishing beyond a doubt the absence of double refraction caused by movement of the refracting medium through the ether" (ibid). ALSO INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME: J. J. Thomson's 'Plum Pudding Model': "The most widely accepted theory of atomic structure up to about 1913" (Peacock, The Quantum Revolution, 34). CONDITION & DETAILS: London: Taylor and Francis. Entire volume. Ex-libris and bearing occasional light stamp within. New end papers. No marks at the spine whatsoever. Octavo (8.5 x 5.5 inches; 213 x 138mm). [viii], 720, [6]. 27 plates. Handsomely rebound in three quarter calf over gilt-ruled maroon paper boards. Four gilt-ruled raised bands at the spine. Gilt devices in the spine compartments. Gilt-lettered red and black spine labels. Tightly and very solidly bound. An occasional spot within, quite minor. Very good condition in every way.