Fail Safe by Burdick Eugene, First Edition (30 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Front and back hinge well connected. Ex-library stamp on inside cover. Interior Text body has no inscription in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, Second Printing. Hard cover 8vo. Very Good/No DJ. Ex-lib w/usual faults, heavy wear to spine tips. 286pp. Filmed in 1964, directed by Sidney Lumet. Ex-Library.

Softcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 1st Dell Printing (August, 1963) in orange wraps with large black titles printed on concentric circles. Good condition. The covers show some edge wear and tear. The binding is tight. The interior pages are unmarked. Free 1st class upgrade.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: N-Fine. First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight clean un-read copy. Issue #2459. Eye for an eye tale of Biblical proportions set in the cold war 60's. Dated now but was a real thriller back in the day. This book and one other were kind of cannibalized by Stanly Kubrik for his movie Dr. Stranglove. Remainder.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. sound, tight, clean text.

First Edition. First Printing. Very Good condition.

Condition: Good. 1963. First edition thus. 255 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear.

Paperback. Condition: Good Used Condition. Later Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, New York, USA, 1962. Seventh (7th) Printing (stated) of First Edition, but number code on rear board indicates possible book club edition. Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket. Text Block is clean, soft white, tight, straight and square, with no markings of any kind other than a prior owner's signature on the front free endpaper. Binding is quarter black cloth to olive drab boards, with red and white title, etc., to spine, which shows some wear at top and bottom, and with only slightly bumped corners. No Dust Jacket. See photos. 286 pages. 6" x 8 1/2". A best-selling cold war era novel about accidental nuclear war when bombers on a routine mission pass the fail-safe point. Basis for the 1964 film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy, and Walter Matthau.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The jacket is a bit marked and worn. One bookplate. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. the boards are edge worn and shelf rubbed. sunned. marked. stained. some foxing. internally clean and tightly bound. [P.N.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The boards are rubbed.Some foxing.Excellent binding.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. jacket is shelf rubbed, edge worn and torn. tanning. light foxing, soiling and marks. well bound. fairly good copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The jacket is a bit marked and torn. minor stains. Internally clean and tightly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

First Edition. Hardcover. 256pp. Pages slightly tanned, ligtly marked on edges, slight foxing to rear endpaper, otherwise V.g. in dustwrapper worn at head and foot of spine with slight loss, slightly rubbed along edges with nick top edge of rear panel, laminate slightly lifting along upper spine edge.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 255 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

First Edition. First English edition. Very Good to Near Fine condition. No dustjacket. Owner's signature.

first edition 256pp VG (cocked, corners bruised, spine head and foot sl.sunned, owner's name on ffep, ep's sl. foxed) in VG- d/w (lamination on front cover lifting,corners and spine foot chipped,1 inch tear upper edge of rear cover near spine head,rubbed).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First UK Edition. Classic novel later made into gripping film. Slight cock to spine. Boards are clean with rich wine color and gilt lettering on spine. Jacket has wear at corners and small .33 inch chip at heel of spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Novel.

mass_market. Condition: Good. First Dell Printing, 1963. No markings in text. Clean covers and pages. Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Friday.

Tapa blanda. Condition: Bueno. coleccion NUEVA FONTANA, primera edicion junio 1963, 363 pginas, tapa dura sin sobrecubierta, en buen estado.

Paperback. Condition: Good Plus. FIlm Tie-in Edition. PAPERBACK 1965. 17.5x11cm. 205 pages. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref rONHND.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine copy In a Near Fine Jacket unfaded At Spine.$4.95 On Flap. Ink Name The Great Book On The Cold-War.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Clipped DJ in archival cover, chips.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First Edition. 286p octavo. A fine copy in a complete but 'doctored' dust jacket with a long closed tear at the foredge. Previous owner/collector has tried to 'repair' the spine of the jacket and failed miserably by applying tape and ink. Looks good on the shelf however.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 4th edition. 286-page hardcover sound with clean text. Dust Jacket intact with edge wear.

First edition, first printing of Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, published by Hutchinson, London in 1963. A near fine copy free from internal inscriptions, slight pushing to head of the spine, foxing and toning to the text block and some light spotting to the prelims. In a very good price clipped wrapper with chipping to the spine tips, chipping to the knuckles of front and rear flap folds and shelf wear to upper and lower edges of front and rear panels, toning to the flap folds and creasing to the lower corner of rear flap fold. Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler is a Cold War-era political thriller exploring the terrifying possibility of accidental nuclear war. When a technical malfunction sends a U.S. bomber group to attack the Soviet Union, American leaders scramble to prevent global catastrophe. The novel delves into the tension, ethics and fallibility of military systems and command decisions. With chilling realism, it underscores the fragile balance of power and the devastating consequences of human and technological error.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Burdick on the half-title page. Copyright 1962 stated on the copyright page. No mention of later printings. First Edition. A bright, clean copy; very faint fading along cover edges. Dust jacket has original price of $4.95 printed on the front flap. Slight chipping at the corners and spine ends. Small amount of rubbing and soiling. Some tears. We will provide a certificate of authenticity for this item.

Octavo, two-part boards. First edition, second printing. A presentation with signed inscription by Wheeler on the front free endpaper: "For Jeanette / with warmest regards -- / (during the movie negotiations) -- / Christmas 1962 / Harvey Wheeler." Additionally signed by coauthor Eugene Burdick below Wheeler's inscription. A Hollywood agency file copy with the book label of Ziegler, Hellman and Ross Agency affixed below the inscription. "Tautly paced best-selling thriller about an accidental first strike on Moscow which the president allows to be balanced by the destruction of New York City." - Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 150. The novel, first published in the SATURDAY EVENING POST as a three-part serial 13-27 October 1962, was the basis for a 1964 film directed by Sidney Lumet with a cast including Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Dan O'Herlihy, Frank Overton and Fritz Weaver. "A hard-hitting, dreadful-warning best seller which was made into an effective film." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 129. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-81. Reginald 02197. Tiny tear in boards at lower spine end professionally mended, a very good or better copy in very good dust jacket with several short tears mended by a paper conservator. Presents very well. (#158286). Signed.

First Edition. Fail Safe, McGraw Hill, 1962, first edition, fine in near vg dust-wrapper with with some light wear and tear, mostly to the extremities of lightened dust-wrapper spine. Signed by both authors. Scarce thus. A Doomsday novel, this one with a most interesting compromise.