Published by Frederick Muller Ltd, London, 1984
ISBN 10: 0584311672 ISBN 13: 9780584311679
Seller: Durdles Books (IOBA) (PBFA), Birmingham, United Kingdom
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing. Hardback book is tight clean and square. with sharp spine ends. Boards clean and sharp. Title gilt perfect. Text block clean, with lightly toned edges. Pages clean and unmarked. Feels gently read. Fine condition. Jacket near fine, no major issues, just a little evidence of handling. Signed by author to the title page. For grading accuracy books are photographed without a protective book cover. This book is fitted with a non adhesive archival quality book protector to make a quality addition to your collection. Note we do not use stock images, the book pictured is the book described. A great signed copy of this comic novel by Dave Langford (yes, he of Ansible fame and stalwart of fandom), a worker at a nuclear research department takes home a filing cabinet not realising it has a nuclear warhead left in a drawer by a colleague who needed to put it somewhere so he could go to lunch. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Frederick Muller Ltd, 1984
ISBN 10: 0584311672 ISBN 13: 9780584311679
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The book has soiling and tanning to the edges of the page block. The dust jacket has slight soiling to the white background and is unclipped (L8.95). Signed by the author on the title page. Signed by Author(s).
Published by London: Frederick Muller Limited, (1984)., 1984
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. SIGNED and dated (1987) by the author with "all the radioactive best." Mild age-toning to the text, as usual, else fine; in a near fine dust jacket. David Langford draws upon his first job as a physicist at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston, Berkshire from 1975 to 1980, to create a comic novel about the bomb. "Roy Tappen borrows a filing cabinet from work to use at home and unknowingly also takes home a plutonium warhead. He spends the rest of the book trying to infiltrate the warhead back where it belongs without Security or his boss discovering it ever left the facility. Tappen soon explains why his warhead in its aluminum jacket is no more dangerous than a lot of household items. From then on Langford is free to treat the plutonium core like any of the other humorous icons whose appearance at the right moment in the story is good for a chuckle. Jokes are set up and triggered in the deft Langford style, at the pace of about a joke per paragraph."--Mike Glyer. Signed by Author(s).