The Legacy of Hiroshima by Teller, Edward and Allen brown - 1962

Doubleday, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. 325 pages. Ex-university library book, some discoloring, soiling to the covers, pages yellowed; a solid binding; else good overall. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Inventory No: 208574. .

Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1962. Hardcover. Good. 1962. No Edition Remarks. 32 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Pages are mildly tanned and foxed, heavier to endpapers, but text remains clear. Binding is firm. Pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards and spine have minimal shelf-wear, with mild corner bumping and crushing to ends. Spine and edges are heavily sunned. Gilt remains bright. Moderate rubbing and scuffing overall.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co, 1962. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 325, [1]; near fine in original beige cloth, price-clipped dust jacket with some wrinkling and a couple of spots on front cover. Inscribed by Teller: "To Dr. V. A. Davidson, Edward Teller." Edward Teller (1908-2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" (see the Teller-Ulam design), although he did not care for the title, considering it to be in poor taste" (see Wikipedia for a long entry).