From Hiroshima to the Moon by Daniel Lang (13 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book with typical stickers and stampings. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. From Hiroshima to the Moon: Chronicles of Life in the Atomic Age. Lang, Daniel. Dell. 1959. 543p. paperback, covers clean/bright, binding tight, text clean, body square, solid copy--1.75.

From Hiroshima to the Moon: Chronicles of Life in the Atomic Age by Daniel Lang. First Printing, 1959. Published by Simon and Schuster, New York. Hardcover in black boards with turquoise cloth spine and gilt lettering. No dust jacket. A collection of reportage by longtime New Yorker contributor Daniel Lang chronicling the dawn of the Atomic Age -- from Hiroshima and Oak Ridge to early guided missile programs and Cold War nuclear culture. Includes chapters on the Manhattan Project, V-2 rockets, White Sands, and the social and political consequences of atomic development. Condition: Good. Binding firm; cloth spine moderately faded; boards show light handling wear. Interior clean overall. Page 273 contains a vertical tear that has been taped; text remains readable (see photo). No dust jacket. A solid first-printing reading copy of an important early Cold War narrative.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. first edition. LX-134 very good -fine, reading crease paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bright, crisp wraps, tight binding, clean, unmarked pages throughout, uncreased, unfaded spine, in mylar sleeve. 1" tear of rear cover at head of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Lang, Daniel. Very good in an about Very good dust jacket. (Pages: 496) dust jacket has 1" tear at bottom of spine on front fold, rubs at spine ends and corners and along edges.

Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1959). 496pp. VG/VG copy, jacket edge worn with a few small closed tears, spine gently sunned, now preserved in archival jacket protector.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Ownership stamp and signature of noted American psychologist and anthropologist Henry Guze, (a founder of the American Academy of Psychotherapists, the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, and co-founder of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex) on the front fly else fine in fine dustwrapper.

Condition: good, fair. First Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 496, index, DJ somewhat worn and soiled: edge tears/chips and a few slightly larger pieces missing. Substantial portions of this book were previously published in book form in Early Tales of the Atomic Age (1948) and The Man in the Thick Lead Suit (1954). A true story of individuals from wartime operatives of the Counter-Intelligence Corps who hushed up the existence of the atomic-bomb project, to the theoretically ideal astronaut: a woman midget from the Andes with a Ph.D. in physics; from puzzled sighters of flying saucers to abomb-making scientist who considers his work "boring.".