Atomic Quest by Compton Arthur: First Edition (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Octavo. xix, 370 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in burgundy cloth. Light wear to the binding, but the spine has some spotting on the right side near the front hinge. Inner hinges secure. Prior owner's signature on the front flyleaf. A sound copy with clean text.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition bound in maroon cloth with red and silver lettering. Frontis photo of the author. Black & white additional photo illustrations. 8vo size, 370pp. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good dj. Owners bookplate on the front endpaper. Minor rub to the spine tips. Contents are clean, tight & unmarked. VG dust jacket has two small, shallow chips to the top edge of the front panel, a shallow 1" long ship to the head of the spine and 4 small chip to the top edge of the rear panel. Also a few rub marks along the folds, A decent copy of this significant & important account the development, use and aftermath of the Atomic Bomb by one of the Directors of the Manhattan Project. Photos (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, second printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear and scuffing to boards due to age and use. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. All pages are intact and otherwise clean, binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Brown cloth on boards with red and silver lettering to front, same to spine. Book is tight and square with some minor rubbing to corners and scuffing to head of spine. Biggest flaw is some discoloration to the covers and fading to the lettering on both front and spine. Interior is quite good, at least Very good, perhaps Near Fine, with just the faint remnant of where a marker bled through a stick-on note to inside front cover. No DJ but a solid copy of a VERY RARE book. Compton was the recipient of the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics and leader of the Manhattan Project. Arthur Holly Compton (18921962) was an American physicist whose study of X-rays during the early 1920s led to his discovery of the Compton Effect. For this discovery, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927, sharing it with Charles Wilson. His discoveries were key to the eventual development of atomic energy. He was asked to join the Manhattan Project in 1942, becoming head of "X-Projects" at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago. First Edition, First Printing (Only statement on copyright page is 1956).…

Cloth Over Board. Condition: Good. Rough w/ Protective Cover. 1st Edition. tight binding; clean pages; some discoloring due to age; dust jacket wear and tear around edges/corners; larger tears around spine at top, bottom & mid Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy in a very good jacket. This copy inscribed by Compton. The inscription is to physicist Donald Cooksey who later became associate director at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. Also, laid in is a sheet of paper with some notes written by Compton in his hand. A review copy with review sheet laid in. Some wear to the book and jacket. Uncommon signed by the renowned physicist and to a fellow scientist. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1956. 370 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/FIrst Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text has remains of penciled notes present. Binding tight and solid. Arthur Holly Compton was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation. At that time, it was a remarkable revelation: while the wave characteristics of light had been convincingly established, the concept that light possessed both wave and particle attributes faced considerable skepticism. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Tight binding, solid brown boards with sharp corners, bright red and silver lettering to front board and spine strip, gently ruffled at head of spine, clean, unmarked pages throughout. Nice sharp copy by Nobel Prize winning scientist. 1st edition, 1st printing. black and white photographs (illustrator).…

Hardcover. First Edition; Second Printing. Good+ in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. All four corners of front and rear flaps clipped. Damp staining on boards. Shelfwear on spine. Small closed tear on spine crown. Light foxing on top text block edge.

Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. Good condition in fair price clipped dust jacket. Ex-Library copy with discard stamps on edges of text block and library ticket holder to rear fly leaf. Book shows signs of wear with bumped corners and pushing to the head and tail of the spine. The dust jacket has multiple tears, a chunk missing from the head of the spine, along with a library sticker to tail of the spine. Book.…