Fail Safe by Burdick Eugene, First Edition (41 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. First NEW Edition By publisher!. 285 pgs. (10/69; 1st NEW Dell edition) >> Nail-biting Suspense novel of Nuclear Nightmare! US planes sent to bomb USSR, with no way to recall them. One of the best & most unusual thrillers ever written. Basis for the CLASSIC Sidney Lumet Film, which starred Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, & Larry Hagman. >> Front cover is crunched, but still great as a cheap reading copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

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.

Soft cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. 285 pgs. (August/1963; 1st Paperback Printing) >> Nail-biting Suspense novel of Nuclear Nightmare! US planes sent to bomb USSR, with no way to recall them. One of the best & most unusual thrillers ever written. Basis for the CLASSIC Sidney Lumet Film / movie, which starred Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, & Larry Hagman. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. 285 pgs. (August/1963; 1st Paperback Printing) >> Nail-biting Suspense novel of Nuclear Nightmare! US planes sent to bomb USSR, with no way to recall them. One of the best & most unusual thrillers ever written. Basis for the CLASSIC Sidney Lumet Film / movie, which starred Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, & Larry Hagman. >> Nice Copy, but with minor fraying to bottom 1" of spine, minor Name written on first page, thus VG. Still nice! Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. 285 pgs. (August/1963; 1st Paperback Printing) >> Nail-biting Suspense novel of Nuclear Nightmare! US planes sent to bomb USSR, with no way to recall them. One of the best & most unusual thrillers ever written. Basis for the CLASSIC Sidney Lumet Film / movie, which starred Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, & Larry Hagman. >> Nice VG+ Copy, but with minor fraying to bottom 1" of spine, Name written inside front cover, thus VG. Still nice! Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. 6th Edition By Publisher. 285 pgs. (August/1963; 1st Paperback Printing) >> Nail-biting Suspense novel of Nuclear Nightmare! US planes sent to bomb USSR, with no way to recall them. One of the best & most unusual thrillers ever written. Basis for the CLASSIC Sidney Lumet Film / movie, which starred Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, & Larry Hagman. >> Name in Pen on 1st page. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: VG+. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. 285 pgs. (August/1963; 1st Paperback Printing) >> Nail-biting Suspense novel of Nuclear Nightmare! US planes sent to bomb USSR, with no way to recall them. One of the best & most unusual thrillers ever written. Basis for the CLASSIC Sidney Lumet Film / movie, which starred Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, & Larry Hagman. >> Minor name written on inside front cover. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. 285 pgs. (August/1963; 1st Paperback Printing) >> Nail-biting Suspense novel of Nuclear Nightmare! US planes sent to bomb USSR, with no way to recall them. One of the best & most unusual thrillers ever written. Basis for the CLASSIC Sidney Lumet Film / movie, which starred Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, & Larry Hagman. >> Nice VG to FN copy, but has 1" writing on cover. Still nice! Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. First NEW Edition By publisher!. 285 pgs. (10/1978; Second New Upgraded Edition! First Printing! This one features a wraparound bottom half cover illustration of the WAR room) >> Nail-biting Suspense novel of Nuclear Nightmare! US planes sent to bomb USSR, with no way to recall them. One of the best & most unusual thrillers ever written. Basis for the CLASSIC Sidney Lumet Film, which starred Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, & Larry Hagman. >> Name stamped on right edge of book. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. First NEW Edition By publisher!. 285 pgs. (10/69; 1st NEW Dell edition) >> Nail-biting Suspense novel of Nuclear Nightmare! US planes sent to bomb USSR, with no way to recall them. One of the best & most unusual thrillers ever written. Basis for the CLASSIC Sidney Lumet Film, which starred Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, & Larry Hagman. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

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.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. 285 pgs. (August/1963; 1st Paperback Printing) >> Nail-biting Suspense novel of Nuclear Nightmare! US planes sent to bomb USSR, with no way to recall them. One of the best & most unusual thrillers ever written. Basis for the CLASSIC Sidney Lumet Film / movie, which starred Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, & Larry Hagman. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. 285 pgs. (August/1963; 1st Paperback Printing) >> Nail-biting Suspense novel of Nuclear Nightmare! US planes sent to bomb USSR, with no way to recall them. One of the best & most unusual thrillers ever written. Basis for the CLASSIC Sidney Lumet Film / movie, which starred Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, & Larry Hagman. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

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.

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.

First Edition. First Printing. Very Good condition.

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: 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.

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: VG++/VG++/VG++. y 1st. Edn. Thus, HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Imp: 1st. Date of Publication: 1964* Publisher: The Companion Book Club in association with Hutchinson and Co.* Binding and cover condition: Orange cloth, gilt title to maroon spine label. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine, very slight spine lean. VG++* Jacket condition: Red & white design to dust wrapper, white titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of 5/3d. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges particularly to top of flap folds. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Top edge coloured (black). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight spotting to fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 224 pp. text. ii pp., blank pages at rear.* Description: Set in the late sixties 'Fail Safe' delivers a tale of computer error and misplaced human faith in machines to control our desires for war and peace. A tiny error in a non-descript machine, buried in a mountain leads to 'Group Six', a collection of US Air Force Vindicator bombers, progressing beyond their fail safe position and into Soviet territory to deliver 20 megaton bombs to Moscow. Desperate attempts by the US military and the President (heavily based on Kennedy but never directly implied) to counteract the aircraft leads to intense communications with Khrushchev and the Soviet military and, ultimately, to a decision being made which challenges the very sanity of all involved.* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st/1st thus, with some minor faults in a VG++ dust jacket.* 1964-01-01. n.

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.

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.

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

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.