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New York: Simon and Schuster, (1968). Octavo, gray cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 384 pp. Very Good+. From Preface: Background as given here was taken from a mountain of print -- popular, technical, and governmental -- some of it of great interest. But of greater interest to me were the memories of my two subjects told to me about a hundred of their associates, mostly physicists. Any quotations in the book, unless otherwise attributed, came to me directly from the source cited. One reason for undertaking a book of this sort is the occasion it provides for interviews with figures of our time whose lives have escaped the commonplace...

Simon & Schuster, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good hardcover in good dust jacket. No marks or names inside. Solid binding. Foxing to inside cover near spine. Rubs to spine ends and edges of hardcover. Chips, tears and rubs to edges and spine ends of dust jacket. Few scratches and soiling to front and back of dust jacket.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Jacket price clipped else fine

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968. 384 pages in near fine condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Bound in black cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Lightly worn on the corners. Black and yellow dustjacket in very good condition with white titles. Worn around the edges with chips and tears. Lightly smudged. 1ST PRINTING. PC. NF/VG-. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968. First Edition, third printing. 8vo, publisher's original light gray cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, in the original illustrated dustjacket. 384 pp. The book very fine in a handsome dustjacket with minor edgewear. A FINE COPY. The fateful story of Earnest Lawrence and Robert Oppenheimer - the two giants+6 of twentieth-century American physics - whose association began in productive harmony, climaxed in world-shattering achievement, and ended in rancor that split the nation's scientific community and swayed the entire course of United States atomic policy. In Lawrence and Oppenheimer, Davis writes not of abstract science but of the ambitions, tensions, insights and clashing values of proud and brilliant men. A collective portrait of modern man on the brink of cataclysm, this is a book for the nonscientist as well as for readers steeped in the technology of the age.

Da Capo Pr. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing stated, no writing, marks, underlining, or bookplates. With original letter from author to owner regarding errors in the book and Nuel Davis' rather humorous reply. Very nice association letter. No remainder marks. Spine is tight and crisp. Boards are flat and true and the corners are square. Dust jacket is not priced. This collectible, " FINE" condition first edition/first printing copy is protected with a polyester archival dust jacket cover. Beautiful collectible copy. Unread. Scarce w/letter enclosed. GIFT QUALITY