How to Survive the H Bomb and Why (SIGNED)

Pat Frank

Published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1962

About this Item

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Used; Very Good. Lippincott 1962 Hardcover First Edition. Flat SIGNED by author on front free end page (dated " '62"). Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket has a one inch close tear to the back and light rubbing on the front. Book Condiiton; Very Good Jacket Condition: Very Good Named after his father, Harry Hart Frank, Pat Frank wrote under the nickname he used his entire life. He was born in Chicago in 1908 but grew up in Florida after his father died when Pat was young. As a teen, he started writing local interest stories for the Jacksonville Journal, eventually becoming a reporter for newspapers in New York and Washington. During World War II, he was appointed assistant chief of mission of the Office of War Information (OWI). The OWI distributed information, and propaganda. After three years there, he left to become a war correspondent. All of these experiences inspired a second career: novelist.Nonfiction book by the author of Alas, Babylon, a fictional account of life after an atomic war. Published during the time of Cold War hydrogen bomb testing. The author concludes that nuclear war is unwinnable but presents his arguments for improved Civil Defense as a necessary deterrent factor. . 1962. First Edition. HARDCOVER.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Survive the H Bomb and Why (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Publication Date: 1962
• Binding: HARDCOVER
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Used; Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction- Hardcover/Trade