signed first edition Hardcover
2005 · New York
by Bird, Kai; Sherwin, Martin L.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First Edition, Third 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, mostly on back flap. Light bumping on head of jacket spine. Text block clean. Signed flat by Sherwin on title page. Features photographs throughout. Shelved in Case 5. 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 in the Manhattan Project, the research and development undertaking that created the first nuclear weapons. 1373287. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
(Inventory #: 1373287)