Wendt Gerald Science Editor (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine/Very Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Soft cover pocket edition, complete and unabridged. Cover shows signs of wear at the edges of the spine and back. Pages are clean, unmarked and firmly bound to the spine. This book is in fine to very fine condition. 1945, first edition, first printing. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good/NO DUSTJACKET. Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Company . Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1945. . Hardcover. 8vo., 251 p.p., Shelf wear; head and tail of spine and corners of cover bumped; cracked inner hinge; shelf lean; previous owner's inscription on first front free-end paper; spine lightly faded; pages 151-154 creased over; pages clean and unmarked. . Black & White Photographs (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. "FORUM BOOKS EDITION First Printing November 1945" on copyright page; hardcover in red cloth clean square tight unmarked, light age toning around page edges, light fade/soil to spine; the dust jacket is protected in plastic cover but is badly chipped especially along bottom edge, not price-clipped.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. "FORUM BOOKS EDITION First Printing November 1945" on copyright page; hardcover in red cloth clean square tight unmarked, light age toning around page edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 251pp; contents clean and textually unmarked. Red cloth HC with gold lettering. No library markings. Owner's name printed on front pastedown and title page; also stamped on front blank endpaper. B/W illustrations. Signed by Wendt on title page. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition thus, Forum Books edition. Octavo. 251pp. Owner name and address on front fly, bottom edges of cloth lightly sunned, small white stain on front board, else a very good copy in very good price-clipped dust jacket with small corresponding stain on front panel, short tears on extremities. In cloth, preceded by wrappered edition.…

Hardcover. First hardback edition. Cleveland and N.Y.: World Publishing Co., [Forum Books, 1945]. 251 pages. Original red cloth. [21.1 cm.] A very good plus copy in good dust jacket. Spine ends a little bumped and rubbed; upper corners slightly bumped. Jacket is bright, but has nickel-sized chip at upper corner of front panel not affecting lettering; shallow chip to base of spine panel; some light wear with minor loss to corners; and short tear along fold between rear panel and rear flap. FIRST EDITION IN CLOTH, preceded by the paperback original of the same year (published by Pocket Books). THIS COPY SIGNED BY THE EDITOR, GERALD WENDT, on the title page. An account of the development of the atomic bomb, including its recent use at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with a discussion of the potential and dangers of continuing to develop atomic energy. Subtitle on dust jacket reads: "Exciting and authoritative answers to the questions the man in the street is asking: What is atomic energy? What does it mean in your daily life? How should it be controlled?".…