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Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945. Fourth Printing. Original Printed Wrappers. Very Good.

Princeton University Press, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Princeton University Press, 1945. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1948. Later Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is in VG condition with owner's name & stamp to inner board, price sticker with price markings to FFE, light rubbing to edges, bumping to spine ends else a brigth and solid copy. Dust jacket is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges, light creasing to front cover, mild soiling to spine, light rubbing & chipping to spine ends else still bright and intact. ARN 50.01

Stanford University Press, 1990. Paperback. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. New York: AMS PRESS, 1978. HARDCOVER. Reprinted from the edition of 1948, Princeton from an original in the collections of the University of Michigan Libraries. A few notations on pages present otherwise clean with a tight binding. Originally written at the request of Maj. Gen. L. R. Groves. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Princeton University Press. 1946.Very good later edition of the seminal work that resulted in the development of the atomic bomb. Brown boards with red lettering to spine. Prior owner signature with 1947 dating on front pastedown. Unclipped ($2.00) jacket shows shelf wear, chips to bottom of jacket and large chip with paper loss to top of jacket spine. "This is the full test of the official report on development of the atomic bomb by the U.S. Government, with later government replease on the New Mexico test of July 16." In short, it served as a means to inform American citizens and taxpayers about the Manhattan Project. Henry DeWolf Smyth (1898-1986) was a professor of Physics at Princeton University. He began working on the Manhattan Project in early 1941. Later, he served as a U.S. Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and as a commissioner on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. 8X5.5. With Index, 308pg.

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Paperback / softback. New. An exploration of how atomic energy was deployed for military purposes, this text traces the administrative history of the topic and the problems and issues faced as the project became a reality.

Princeton; Princeton Univ Press; 1945,, 1945. Hardcover. 4th Ptg; 308pp incl appendices, index, statements by the British and Canadian governments, b/w photo section; 5.5x8, lg 12mo; NF/VG; HB, gray cloth with burgandy on spine; pictorial yellow DJ with yel low in black on spine, white/yellow/black on face; PON ff; spine top lt chipped, several sm closed tears; a general account of the scientific research and technical development that went into the maki ng of atomic bombs; ATOMIC ENERGY, SCIENCE, REFERENCE. (N11.01)

Princeton University Press, 1945. 1st?. VG/G. The 1st official report on the development of the Atomic bomb, plus photos and info on the New Mexico test. DJ chipped, soiled. .

Stanford University Press, 1990-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1945. Wraps. Near Fine. 8vo. 182 pp. Beige wraps w/ black titling. Slight wrinkling to wrappers. Interior clean, binding sound. Laid in bundle of ephemera containing a Government Printing office order form, newspaper clipping calling Smyth "Mr. Atom", and receipt of payment addressed to Clara C. Haas, M.D. Haas was formerly the head of the Department of Social Welfare at the State Hospital for Mental Diseases in Howard, Rhode Island.

Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). FIRST. A VERY GOOD FIRST IN DJ. SIGNED BY CHARLES RICHTER..

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945. Hardcover. Good. Fifth printing. Octavo. 308pp. Small label front fly, corners bumped, slight wear at spine ends, a good copy without dustwrapper. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn. Ownership signature of "Bernarda B. Shahn

ATOMIC ENERGY FOR MILITARY PURPOSES - A GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT THAT WENT INTO THE MAKING OF ATOMIC BOMBS, Princeton University Press, 1945, first edition (first printing), just about fine in vg+/near fine dust-wrapper save for some light dust-soil to the dust-wrapper spine and a small chip at the head and heel of the rear dust-wrapper fold.

Moscow: Gos.transportnoe zheleznodorozhnoe izd-vo., 1946. First edition in Russian. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good, bound in contemporary green buckram with stamped illustration on lower front. Light wear and chipping to cover page, which also has previous owner's name. A few underlines in text. Inside clean, bright. Octavo. 276pp, illustrated. 104150

Washington, D.C.: Adjutant General's Office, 1945. First edition. original wrappers. RARE LITHOPRINT ISSUE - THE FIRST OBTAINABLE PRINTING - OF THE FIRST ACCOUNT OF THE MANHATTAN PROJECT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ATOMIC BOMB. ONE OF SMYTH'S OWN COPIES, SIGNED BY HIM ON THE TITLE PAGE. PMM 422e. Released to the public on 12 August 1945, just six days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the "Smyth Report" (as it came to be known) contained a full account of the development work carried out between 1940 and 1945 by the Manhattan Project that culminated in the production of the first atomic bomb. The first version of the report was a mimeographed copy (identifiable by the word "secret" stamped on every page), hand-delivered by military messenger, which the recipients were required to read immediately and return to the waiting messenger. These mimeographed copies were apparently destroyed for security reasons, as no copies, either whole or in parts, have been recorded in existence except for Smyth's… Read More