Fail Safe, Signed (11 results)

Condition: As New. Signed Copy . Like New dust jacket. Signed/Inscribed by author on front endpage.

Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This book shows minimal sign of wear to the cover, binding, or pages. The book is signed by Author. Dust jacket condition is Very Good. This copy is the First Edition of the published work. This copy is the Second Printing of the published work. Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed by author.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Inscribed by Beere on the title page. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed. Firmly bound with two staples, clean internally. The first entry in Beere's proposed series "concerning the imminent collapse and disappearance of Western civilization as we know it" as a result of government secrecy, with comments on his previous work USP--A Physics for Flying Saucers and photocopies of letters to and from government officials, including President Carter. From the collection of Tom Benson. [Eberhart 11266]. Signed.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 32 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine black with white lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut: "$1.50." Minor shelf wear. Light creasing to edges of dust jacket. Foxing to rear cover. Textblock clean. Signed flat by Hook on front free endpaper. Shelved in Case 10. 1373247. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

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.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. (Clocktower Press). A complete run of their publications to date: (1) McLean, Duncan and James Meek. Safe/Lurch. 1990. Signed by both authors; (2) McLean, Duncan. The Druids Shite It, Fail to Show. 1991. Signed by the author. His first separate publication; (3) (Various) Zoomers: Short Sharp Fiction. 1991. Includes work by McLean, Meek and Gordon Legge; (4) Kermack, Alison. Restricted Vocabulary. 1991. Signed by the author; (5) Welsh, Irvine. Past Tense. 1992. His first publication; (6) (Various) Parcel of Rogues. 1992. Includes work by Kelman and Welsh; (7) Hodgson, Brent. Collected Works. 1992. (8) (Various) Folk. 1993. Includes work by Alan Warner and Irvine Welsh. (9) Crystal, David. The Beetle House. 1994. (10) Aberdeen, John. The Can-Can, Ken? 1996. Signed by the author. All in original illustrated wrappers. All in Fine condition, as issued. Also present is a short tls from the publisher and writer, Duncan McLean, soliciting orders from another Scottish writer and a publicity sheet for The Can-Can, Ken also signed by McLean with an erratum for John Aberdein s title. Note: Rare complete set. Series edited by Duncan McLean in editions of 300 copies, except for Parcel of Rogues which was published in an edition of 500 copies. Signed by Author(s).

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.