Ghandi Indira (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine in Near Fine Jacket.

1st edition. 8vo. 221pp. Original boards. Pictorial orange d/w. lettered in yellow and white, spine faded, rubbed to edges. With review slip loosely inserted. ISBN 0340193875 US$15.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine. See scans and description. Chicago: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science,1976. The April, 1976 issue of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, that being Volume 32, Number 4. The famous and historic Doomsday Clock - shown on each cover or title page since 1947, two years after the publication's inception - here shows the time to be nine minutes of midnight as of late 1976. Quarto, illustrated staple-bound wraps, 48 pp. Near Fine; original addressee label on front cover, inevitable page-toning within is moderate, light soil of rear cover; no other flaws. A handsome example; see all scans. Established in 1945 by biophysicist Eugene Rabinowitch and physicist Hyman Goldsmith in response to a correctly-perceived demand for nuclear information at the time by the general public, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is without doubt the most historically significant non-technical publication on the subject of "'global security and public policy issues related to the dangers posed by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, climate change,[2] and emerging technologies and diseases". Hence, over the years, BAS has become a geopolitical instrument, rather than a nuclear watchdog alone. Feature articles in this vintage 1976 issue: Siege in Czechoslovakia; Different Roads; UNESCO; Psychology of Nuclear Race; Photovoltaic Solar Energy; Grand Forks; more. See scan of contents. Contributors include Samuel H. Day Jr.; Indira Ghandi; Frantisek Janouch; Saville Davis; Jerome D. Frank; Martin Wolf; Gail H. Marcus; Stephen G. Brush; et al. Very, very scarce as the original monthly softcover issue. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. LPR58.…

rilegato copertina rigida. Condition: Very Good. stupendo libro che illustra in molteplici immagini a colore la storia dell' india , condizioni molto buone sia esterne che interne, sovraccoperta con alette illustrative leggermente usurata, nel complesso ottimo stato copertina rigida 258 Molto buono (Very Good) . Book.…

Second edition, fifth impression. Slim 8vo, pp. xii, 84, incl. b/w illustrations. Cream paper blind-stamped with reptile skin pattern, spine and upper board lettered in black. A little grubby, spine and board edges darkened, pushing and wear to spine ends and corners. Pencil POI to ffep: "W. T. Newlyn/ Nov. 44./ New Delhi", toned, a few creased corners. Else, clean and tidy. A pleasing copy of an early edition of Nehru's popular epistolary natural and human history written for his ten-year-old daughter, Indira. Unusual, even as a reprint of the second edition. With printed dedication to his daughter, Indira (1917-1984; later Ghandi) who followed in her father's political footsteps and became India's third Prime Minister (1966-1977; 1980-1984). …

5 1/4" x 3 1/2" card (with cover) matted and framed (14 3/4" x 16"). In Near Fine condition (light rubbing to frame). The card bears the printed message "Thank you for your Greetings./With good wishes. (s) Indira Gandhi 1962" (following 'Greetings' she has written "to my father"). Verso of the black framed piece bears "Postmarked 27-1-62' and "Received April 5, 1962 (on verso)" in pencil. Indira Ghandi was Jawarharlal Nehru's daughter and served as his hostess and accompanied him on his numerous foreign trips during his premiership. She later served as India's third (the first and, to date, only female) Prime Minister.…