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Command the Morning
by BUCK, Pearl S
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: John Day Company, 1959. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Original light blue cloth, stamped in black, in blue dust jacket; plain endpapers; 317pp. A straight copy, head and tail pushed, lightly faded along top edge, else Near Fine. Jacket trimmed at corners but price ($4.50) still present, generally faded, spine much faded, edges rubbed: Very Good.
A novel about the creation of the atom bomb: "the story of three top U.S. scientists engaged before 1940 in nuclear physics, and of how they were drawn . . . into making the bomb during the war and were persuaded to assent to its use" (1959 Review by V. S. Pritchett). Buck was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Raised in China, she wrote extensively on Chinese and Asian culture.
A novel about the creation of the atom bomb: "the story of three top U.S. scientists engaged before 1940 in nuclear physics, and of how they were drawn . . . into making the bomb during the war and were persuaded to assent to its use" (1959 Review by V. S. Pritchett). Buck was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Raised in China, she wrote extensively on Chinese and Asian culture.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56954
- Title
- Command the Morning
- Author
- BUCK, Pearl S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Day Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Nukes;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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