Atomic Age Opens, First Edition (24 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good+. #340, First Printing., Aug. 252pp. Paperback Original. B&W photos, line drawings. Light general wear, front cover bend. Photos on request Size: Mass Market.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. WWII-era book. Pocket Book #340. Cover created with some wear along the edges and corners.

Paperback. first edition. 340 , very good , creases PBO. paperback,

Soft cover. Condition: Fine/Very Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Soft cover pocket edition, complete and unabridged. Cover shows signs of wear at the edges of the spine and back. Pages are clean, unmarked and firmly bound to the spine. This book is in fine to very fine condition. 1945, first edition, first printing.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Stated First printing. Pocket Books, 1945. Stated First Printing. Very Good+. Stated First Printing, August, 1945. Pocket Book Edition Complete & Unabridged, number 340. Clean paperback book, picturing orange and white explosion on cover. No chipping, very soft almost crease at upper right corner. Binding is tight, pages are clean. Previous owner name neatly penned in upper corner of front free endpaper. Clean red stained text block edges. 253 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. "When the U.S. Army Forces dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, it meant the end of Japan as a war-making power - and the beginning of a new age. For, with this newly-released force, man can destroy himself or create a world rich and prosperous beyond all previous dreams" The Atomic Age Opens is the first book published on the realities of the use of atomic energy. THIS 1945 Pocket Books paperback anthology edited by Donald Porter Geddes and Gerald Wendt. Published just weeks after Hiroshima, introduced the American public to atomic science, nuclear weapons, and their potential consequences. Publication: First issued as Pocket Book #340 in August 1945, a paperback original (no prior hardcover). Later reissued in hardcover by World Publishing as part of the Forum Books series. Editors: Donald Porter Geddes and Gerald Wendt, both science writers/editors aiming to explain atomic energy to a general audience. Format: 252 pages, illustrated with diagrams and portraits, designed for accessibility to non-scientists. Content: A collection of essays on atomic physics, nuclear fission, and the implications of atomic weapons. Contributors included scientists and commentators contextualizing discoveries from Einstein, Bohr, Fermi, Meitner, and others. Themes: Optimism about atomic energy's potential for industry and medicine. Grave warnings about nuclear warfare and the need for international control. Efforts to demystify atomic science for everyday readers. While not an Armed Services Edition itself, its timing and subject matter overlap with ASE distribution themes of 1945. THIS book is in fabulous original condition with tight binding and clean, bright pages! Paperback edition. 252 pages. Dimensions: 4.25" by 6.25". Published by Pocket Books, New York. 1st printing, 1945. B&W illustrations. B&W photographs. Orange binding. Cover defect(s): Some scratches/scuffing. 0.5 Pound Media Shipping Rate with Multiple Product Orders. (Min Shipping Rate 1 Pound per Order). Order More and SAVE! Genre(s): Atomic Energy / Nuclear Science / World War 2 / English. (B91).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. "FORUM BOOKS EDITION First Printing November 1945" on copyright page; hardcover in red cloth clean square tight unmarked, light age toning around page edges, light fade/soil to spine; the dust jacket is protected in plastic cover but is badly chipped especially along bottom edge, not price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. "FORUM BOOKS EDITION First Printing November 1945" on copyright page; hardcover in red cloth clean square tight unmarked, light age toning around page edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing Thus. Light bump on spine tail. Else binding clean. Inked owner's name and inscription on front flyleaf. Inked name on rear pastedown. Else pages clean. Light chipping and rubbing on DJ spine extremities. Small chip on top edge of rear DJ flap. Light surface rubbing on DJ. Light rubbing on DJ fold corners. The DJ is a bit shorter than the book. ; B&W Photographs; SCH18D; 251 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Used - Very Good. Pocket Books, New York, August, 1945. First printing. 252 pages, 1p acknowledgements, 2p publisher list. Illustrated. 6.25 x 4.25'', paperback. Printers Devil, Atom Bomb 2. Cover rubbed, bit soiled, text VG.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good (-). No Jacket. True First Edition. The agony and tragedy of atomic warfare, as well as the politics and challenges of the atomic age. Condition notes - 251 numbered pp +1; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight; a.e. tanned. Cover: red, yellow device front, yellow titles spine; modest shelfwear, extrems somewhat worn, bottom corners bumped, spine mildly faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 251pp; contents clean and textually unmarked. Red cloth HC with gold lettering. No library markings. Owner's name printed on front pastedown and title page; also stamped on front blank endpaper. B/W illustrations. Signed by Wendt on title page. Signed by Author.

FIRST EDITION. THE ATOMIC AGE OPENS, Pocket Books, 1945, first edition, vg+ or better in wraps as issued. Illustrated with photos and drawings.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. one of the very first out books post hiroshima.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. Soft cover. A.E.R. 252 pp. B&W illustration in text. Covers warped, soiled and rubbed. Cracked to inner hinge at title page.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Mass market paperback. Moderate edgewear, tiny indentation on front cover, very good or better. Prepared by the editors of Pocket Books less than a month after the Hiroshima bombing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition thus, Forum Books edition. Octavo. 251pp. Owner name and address on front fly, bottom edges of cloth lightly sunned, small white stain on front board, else a very good copy in very good price-clipped dust jacket with small corresponding stain on front panel, short tears on extremities. In cloth, preceded by wrappered edition.

8°, 251 S.m. Abb., 1 Bl., roter OLwdbd.m. gelbgeprägt. RTitel, minim. Gebrauchssp., unbeschnitten; schönes Expl. Erste Ausgabe mit Beiträgen zu Hiroshima, Truman usw. Sprache: Englisch.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good in wrappers. Prepared by the editors of Pocket Books less than a month after the Hiroshima bombing. Small dampstain to foredge.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good in wrappers. Prepared by the editors of Pocket Books less than a month after the Hiroshima bombing. Pencil underlining on some pages, bottom half of one page is missing.

Condition: good, fair. 1st Forum Bks Edition. First Printing. 21 cm, 251, illus., DJ worn and torn: small edge tears/chips, pencil erasure on front endpaper. This book was first published as a Pocket Book paperback and then as a hardback in this edition. This book provided some of the first information to the American public about the development and use of atomic weapons. It combines a number of explanations of atomic physics crafted for readers with no scientific background. There is a surprising concern expressed by the editors for the dangers of this new warfare, as well as the need to control it.

Hardcover. First hardback edition. Cleveland and N.Y.: World Publishing Co., [Forum Books, 1945]. 251 pages. Original red cloth. [21.1 cm.] A very good plus copy in good dust jacket. Spine ends a little bumped and rubbed; upper corners slightly bumped. Jacket is bright, but has nickel-sized chip at upper corner of front panel not affecting lettering; shallow chip to base of spine panel; some light wear with minor loss to corners; and short tear along fold between rear panel and rear flap. FIRST EDITION IN CLOTH, preceded by the paperback original of the same year (published by Pocket Books). THIS COPY SIGNED BY THE EDITOR, GERALD WENDT, on the title page. An account of the development of the atomic bomb, including its recent use at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with a discussion of the potential and dangers of continuing to develop atomic energy. Subtitle on dust jacket reads: "Exciting and authoritative answers to the questions the man in the street is asking: What is atomic energy? What does it mean in your daily life? How should it be controlled?".

Condition: good, fair to good. 1st Forum Bks Edition. First Printing. 21 cm, 251, illus., DJ somewhat worn: small edge tears/chips. This book was first published as a Pocket Book paperback and then as a hardback in this edition. This book provided some of the first information to the American public about the development and use of atomic weapons. It combines a number of explanations of atomic physics crafted for readers with no scientific background. There is a surprising concern expressed by the editors for the dangers of this new warfare, as well as the need to control it.