Fail Safe by Burdick Eugene, Signed (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Signed by Burdick and Wheeler on the half-title page. Book would be VG but for the fact that the waterstained jacket adhered to the exterior of the boards- mainly on the front board at the lower corner near the binding, and a bit on the rear board in the same location. Jacket intact but fair. Later printing. Signed by Authors.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 3rd Edition. 3rd Edition Fine Copy In a Near Fine Jacket.Rare Presentation Copy."For Donald & Pat with best regards from Jerry and Joan and me Bud Burdick Berkley 5 Xii 62 " Signed in Year of Publication.Masterpiece of The Cold War. Presentation By Author.

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.