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THE TRAITORS The Double Life of Fuchs, Pontecorvo and Nunn May by Moorehead, Alan - 1952

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THE TRAITORS The Double Life of Fuchs, Pontecorvo and Nunn May by Moorehead, Alan - 1952

THE TRAITORS The Double Life of Fuchs, Pontecorvo and Nunn May

by Moorehead, Alan

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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1952. A very good to fine first edition copy with original dust jacket; pp. 222, b/w illustrations. Original dust jacket very good/fine with light wear only, price-clipped, now protected in a clear, removable archive sleeve. Hard-back binding, fine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good/fine first edition copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo 21.5 x 14cm. Book.
  • Bookseller Loe Books GB (GB)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Fine
  • Jacket Condition Near Fine
  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Hamish Hamilton
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1952
  • Size 8vo 21.5 x 14cm

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THE TRAITORS The Double Life of Fuchs, Pontecorvo and Nunn May.

by Moorehead, Alan

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GB: Hamilton, 1952. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. Lacks front endpaper. Bit out of shape. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. . 1st Edition. Hardback. VG-/VG- DW.
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The Traitors. The Double Life of Fuchs, Pontecorvo, and Nunn May.

by Moorehead, Alan

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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1952: B0017681QG. First edition first printing hardback with dust wrapper. The book measures 8½" x 6", it has 222 pages and is illustrated with 4 full page b/w photographs. The wrapper, binding and contents are in very nice, clean, sound condition. VG+/VG .
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THE TRAITORS The Double Life of Fuchs, Pontecorvo and Nunn May.

by Moorehead, Alan

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GB: Hamilton, 1952. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in near very good condition with minor but just noticeable signs of wear and/or age. With a BLURB BAND "Daily Mail Book of the Month". . 1st Edition. Hardback. VG+/nrVG DW.
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The Traitors The Double Life of Fuchs, Pontecorvo, and Nunn May

by Moorehead, Alan

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Hamish Hamilton. 1952,. /Dust Jacket Included. 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 221pp, illustrated, owner's name on endpaper, foxing on page edges, text clean and sound, Good condition in slightly frayed dustwrapper .
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THE TRAITORS. The Double Life of Fuchs, Pontecorvo, and Nunn May

by Moorehead Alan

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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1952. First Edition. With 4 black and white photographs. 8vo, in the publisher's original orange cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and in the dustjacket. 222 pp. A fine copy with light mellowing and some evidence of shelving. FIRST EDITION. Moorehead gives the first full account of Nunn May, Fuchs and Pontecorvo, their double lives, their personalities, the methods employed by the security officers in bringing the first two to justice, and the circumstances of the disappearance of the third... "Since the invention of the atomic bomb, treachery has come closer to the lives of ordinary people than ever before,. Here Mr. Moorehead examines the mind of the twentieth-century traitor in particular relation to these three men. "Klaus Fuchs is studied in great detail. Step by step, we are shown how this brilliant scientist, believing he held the fate of humanity in his hands, arrogated to himself the right to settle its destiny, only to realize in the end that… Read More
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