TWO MINUTES TILL MIDNIGHT
by Davis, Elmer
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1955. First edition. Octavo. 208 pp. Cloth with gilt titles in unclipped dust jacket. Near fine in vg dj. slight sunning to jacket spine. Citing the current time of the doomsday clock featured on the cover of the American Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Davis warns not of the possibility of thermonuclear war, but of the prospect that the US could lose such a war. The former NY Times reporter and nationally known WWII newscaster outlines what we can do to survive and keep the torch of freedom & liberty burning after the impending global conflict. Not your typical atomic war book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carnegie Hill Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008699
- Title
- TWO MINUTES TILL MIDNIGHT
- Author
- Davis, Elmer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- Atomic Bomb History Nuclear Arms Arms Race Cold War ww III
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; 50's;
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About the Seller
Carnegie Hill Books
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New York, New York
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....