Samuel a Goudsmit Author (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A nice copy of this scarce title. Near fine in hardcover (square, tight, unmarked) in a very good, mylar-protected dust jacket. First edition ("Copyright 1947"). Blind-stamped grey cloth with red titles on the spine shows no wear to the binding or the text block. The pictorial wrapper has a chip along the top edge and at the head of the spine. Decorative endpapers with period newspaper clippings tipped in. A Dutch-American physicist, Goudsmit was the scientific head of the top-secret Alsos Mission, a U.S. Army project to bring German nuclear physicists to the United States. Ships from NC. All hardbacks are sealed in recycled plastic, packaged securely with protective wrapping, and shipped promptly with tracking information.…