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Atomics For The Millions. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. With an Introduction by Harold C. Urey.
by Sendak (Maurice). Eidinoff (Dr. Maxwell Leigh) & Hyman Ruchlis
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
NY: Whittlesey House/Mcgraw-Hill, (1947). First edition. . Blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered and designed in red and gilt. Ownership signature on inner front cover, a clean very good to fine copy in a slightly chipped and worn dust jacket with closed tears at folds and edges, and some loss at the top of the spine. This copy is of the first issue (see Hanrahan A1), with the original price of $3.50 on both front and rear jacket flaps, and the herringbone end papers. Maurice Sendak's first illustrated book, done when he was 18.
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- Bookseller
- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56696
- Title
- Atomics For The Millions. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. With an Introduction by Harold C. Urey.
- Author
- Sendak (Maurice). Eidinoff (Dr. Maxwell Leigh) & Hyman Ruchlis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- NY: Whittlesey House/Mcgraw-Hill, (1947). First edition.
Terms of Sale
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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About the Seller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Biblio member since 2004
Sidney, British Columbia
About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.
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