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RADIOACTIVE: How Irene Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Young Readers, 2018. First edition - Written for older children, this is the story of how story of how two brilliant female physicistsÕ groundbreaking discoveries in the 1930s led to the creation of the atomic bomb, although neither got the recognition they deserved. Photographs. Glossary, who's who, notes, bibliography. 213 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a new copy)
Book ID: 81165More details Price: $15.00 -
THE GREEN GLASS SEA.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: The Viking Press, (2006.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel for young adults set at Los Alamos, New Mexico in 1943 where 11 year old Dewey's father is one of the scientists working on "the gadget." SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the 2007 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and Judy Lopez Award for Childrens Literature. Author's note. 321 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57988More details Price: $30.00 -
HIROSHIMA NO PIKA.
Edition: 3rd printing.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated boards in a very good dust jacket (some edgewear to the dj, creasing to the flaps)
Book ID: 86178More details Price: $300.00 -
STALLION GATE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, 1986. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Suspenseful novel about the testing of the first atomic weapons at Los Alamos, a site hidden on a mesa and surrounded by a vast Indian reservation. SIGNED on the title page.Map. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-394-530063.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 21440More details Price: $35.00 -
FIRST INTO NAGASAKI: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Postatomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - George Weller was a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who covered World War II across Europe and then set out to explore the devastation inflicted on Nagasaki. Censored by General MacArthur in 1945, lost for 60 years, these never-before-published reports provide a moving, unparalleled look at the bomb that killed more than 70,000 people and ended WWII. Also includes other published reports on the horrors of Japan's Pow Camps. Foreword by Walter Cronkite. Edited with an essay by Anthony Weller, the son of George Weller. Photographs. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-307-342018.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 45137More details Price: $18.00