first edition Hardcover
2005 · New York
by Bird, Kai; Sherwin, Martin L.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, xiii, 721 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine red, black, and white with white lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut: "$35.00." Minor shelf wear. Minor edge wear to dust jacket and light bumping to lower right hand corner on front jacket. Text block clean. Features photographs throughout. Shelved in Case 1 1/2. Julius Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist. He was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II, and is often credited as the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role (truncated)