Astronautics: Journal of the American Astronautical Society, Volume II, Number 1, Spring 1955
New York: American Astronautical Soc. 1955. 40, wraps, illus., diagrams, some wear and soiling to covers. More
New York: American Astronautical Soc. 1955. 40, wraps, illus., diagrams, some wear and soiling to covers. More
New York: Academic Press, 1963. First? Edition. First? Printing. 334, illus., references, index, usual library markings and blacked out portions, tape residue on DJ and boards. More
New York: Academic Press, 1965. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 460, illus., diagrams, references, bibliography, index, usual library markings. More
New York: Academic Press, 1966. First? Edition. First? Printing. 396, illus., references, index, usual library markings and blacked out portions. More
Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2015. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Periodical. 24 cm, 24 pages. Wraps. Illustrations (most in color). Mailing label and mailing information on back cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is an American federal research facility in Livermore, California. A Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), it is primarily funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and managed and operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC. In 2012, the laboratory had the synthetic chemical element livermorium named after it. LLNL was established in 1952 as the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, an offshoot of the existing UC Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley. It was intended to spur innovation and provide competition to the nuclear weapon design laboratory at Los Alamos, that developed the first atomic weapons. Edward Teller and Ernest Lawrence, director of the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, are regarded as the co-founders of the Livermore facility. The Lab had four main programs: Project Sherwood (the Magnetic Fusion Program), Project Whitney (the weapons design program), diagnostic weapon experiments, and a basic physics program. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. First U.S. Edition (stated). First Printing (Stated). Hardcover. 215, [1] pages. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Ex-library with the usual library markings. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Tony Osman was a noted British journalist. He joined the Sunday Times in 1969 and reported oh the first moon landing. He was subsequently assigned to work in Houston and witnessed other space voyages from there. He became Chairman of the Association of British Science Writers and returning to London, he also became the Science Editor of The Sunday Times Magazine. More
New York: Bonanza Books, 1978, c1975. 31 cm, 323, illus., glossary, table of armies and their infantry weapons, index, DJ worn and some tears, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958. Second Printing. 161, illus., references, bibliography, DJ soiled and worn: small tears, small pieces missing. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958. Second Printing. 161, illus., references, bibliography, small rough spot & sl soiling ins fr flylf, DJ soiled & edges worn: sm tears, sm pcs missing. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1972. Third Printing. pocket paperbk, 351, wraps, illus., bibliography, index, covers somewhat worn and soiled, some page discoloration This was formerly published as The Secret War. Foreword by Nevil Shute. From classified government files comes the exciting story of the special weapons developed for attack and defense. Gerald Pawle, former Flag Lieutenant-Commander in the British Navy, tells of scientists and inventors in a fascinating, dangerous, and highly secret war, and of weapons--some of them never put to use. More
Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. xx, 267, [1] pages. Discoloration inside boards. Small rough spot inside front flyleaf. DJ worn & stained: wear, tears, soiling, and chips. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Tables. Appendix A: Commandants of the Navy Yard Since Its Organization in 1799. Appendix B: Vessels Build by the Washington Navy Yard. This volume is an account of 150 years of shipbuilding and ordnance development at the Washington Navy Yard. It is a history of what was once the largest naval ordnance plant in the world. Ordnance makes it possible for the Navy to accomplish its primary mission. Ordnance is, in a sense, the Navy's reason for being. The division of function between shipbuilding and the manufacture of naval ordnance existed at the Navy Yard from the very first. Because of the nature of this book, it was deemed appropriate to have forewords written by two outstanding naval officers who have been closely associated with naval ordnance and the Naval Gun Factory throughout their distinguished careers. Admiral Claude C. Block was Commandant of the Navy Yard as well as having served as Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Commander in Chief of the United States Fleet. Admiral W. H. P. Blandy, was Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance during the crucial period immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II and during the first years of the conflict. He also commanded Gunfire Support Forces at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He was in command of Joint Task Force One which conducted the Atomic Bomb Tests in Operation Crossroads at Bikini. More
Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. xx, 267, [1] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Tables. Appendix A: Commandants of the Navy Yard Since Its Organization in 1799. Appendix B: Vessels Build by the Washington Navy Yard. This volume is an account of 150 years of shipbuilding and ordnance development at the Washington Navy Yard. It is a history of what was once the largest naval ordnance plant in the world. Ordnance makes it possible for the Navy to accomplish its primary mission. Ordnance is, in a sense, the Navy's reason for being. The division of function between shipbuilding and the manufacture of naval ordnance existed at the Navy Yard from the very first. Because of the nature of this book, it was deemed appropriate to have forewords written by two outstanding naval officers who have been closely associated with naval ordnance and the Naval Gun Factory throughout their distinguished careers. Admiral Claude C. Block was Commandant of the Navy Yard as well as having served as Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Commander in Chief of the United States Fleet. Admiral W. H. P. Blandy, was Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance during the crucial period immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II and during the first years of the conflict. He also commanded Gunfire Support Forces at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He was in command of Joint Task Force One which conducted the Atomic Bomb Tests in Operation Crossroads at Bikini. More
Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1949. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xx, 267, [1] pages. DJ is price clipped and has wear, tears, soiling, and chips. Front DJ flap has a noticeable scuff. Title page and dedication page have embossed stamp of a former owner. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. This volume is a history of what was once the largest naval ordnance plant in the world. Ordnance makes it possible for the Navy to accomplish its primary mission. Ordnance is, in a sense, the Navy's reason for being. The division of function between shipbuilding and the manufacture of naval ordnance existed at the Navy Yard from the very first. Because of the nature of this book, it was deemed appropriate to have forewords written by two outstanding naval officers who have been closely associated with naval ordnance and the Naval Gun Factory throughout their distinguished careers. Admiral Claude C. Block was Commandant of the Navy Yard as well as having served as Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Commander in Chief of the United States Fleet. Admiral W. H. P. Blandy, was Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance during the crucial period immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II and during the first years of the conflict. He also commanded Gunfire Support Forces at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He was in command of Joint Task Force One which conducted the Atomic Bomb Tests in Operation Crossroads at Bikini. More
New York: Plenum Press, Inc., 1958. First? Edition. First? Printing. Approx. 350, illus., charts, diagrams, references, usual library markings (some blacked out), DJ in plastic sleeve, tape marks ins boards. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1954. First? Edition. First? Printing. 224, illus., index, boards somewhat worn and soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Franklin Watts, 1979. Tenth Edition. 33 cm, 940, illus., figures, tables, addenda, index, DJ worn and creased: edges worn. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 2004. First Edition [stated]. Fifth Printing [stated]. Hardcover. ix, [7], 368 pages. Maps Illustrations. Index. Inscribed by author on half-title. DJ has slight wear. Thomas Care Reed (born March 1, 1934)[2] was the 11th Secretary of the Air Force from January 2, 1976 – April 6, 1977 under Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. Reed began active duty with the Air Force in November 1956, and served until 1959 as technical project officer for the Minuteman Re-Entry Vehicle System. In 1959, he was assigned to the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory of the University of California, engaged in thermonuclear weapons physics. He joined the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory as a civilian for the 1962 test series, continuing there as a consultant until 1967. Reed joined the Department of Defense as an assistant to the secretary and deputy secretary of defense in 1973, and was appointed director of Telecommunications and Command and Control Systems in February 1974. At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War is an autobiographical book about his experience at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory through his time as an advisor to President Ronald Reagan. It reveals new details about the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Farewell Dossier, and other facets of the Cold War. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. [8], 300, [4] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. DJ worn and soiled with small tears. This work was prepared by the Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, Moscow. The author was a well-known Soviet journalist. He was a qualified pilot and devoted his entire later career to covering aviation and astronautics. He has 'flown' several space flights on simulators at the cosmonauts training center, knew many of them personally, and watched their selection and training. He may be the same Yevgeny Ryabchikov – the former Komsomolskaya Pravda’s journalist who served prison sentence for “counter-revolutionary activities” and came to Norilsk in 1943 at the Abraham Zavenyagin’s invitation. He was one of the first Norilsk newspaper For Metal and the bulletins Metal to the Front’s correspondents, issued trade leaflets. Yevgenii Ryabchikov wrote the screenplay for the first film about Norilsk The Giant of the Arctic. The film crew from Novosibirsk came to the northern city in 1945. The fact that the book about a tightly closed settlement was published is surprising. The decision to publish this book was taken at the very top in Moscow. More
Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Publishing Co, 1974. First? Printing. 342, wraps, glossary, index, covers worn, underlining and highlighting to text Addison-Wesley Series in Physics. More
New York: New American Library, 1983. First Printing. 224, wraps, illus., bibliography, index, ink underlining and notes on a few pages, some wear and scuffing to covers raised stamp on title page, lower corner front cover bent, sticker residue on rear cover. The military uses of outer space. More
Secaucus, N. J. The Citadel Press, 1975. First American Edition [stated], Presumed 1st Printing. Trade paperback. 230, [6] pages. Illustrations. References. Index. Cover as some wear and soiling. Originally published in the United Kingdom as Artillery Through the Ages. Colonel Hugh Cuthbert Basset Rogers OBE was born in 1905 at Wylam-on-Tyne, often referred to as the birth place of the steam locomotive. Educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst he was commissioned in The King's Own Royal Regiment in 1924. Seconded to the Indian Signal Corps in 1926, transferred to the Royal Signals in 1930 and drove a train part of the way through the Khyber Pass. The OBE was awarded for operations in France and Belgium in 1940 and at the end of the war he became Chief Signal Officer in South Iraq and Persia, responsible for telecommunications in the area. His last military appointment was as a on the Staff of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe. He wrote on both military history and on railway history, and in particular, on artillery. More
New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shephard Co., 1955. Second Printing. 23 cm, 166, illus. with more than 60 photographs, fr DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, soiled, and edge tears, pencil erasure front endpaper. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1965. First Edition. First Printing. 385, illus., references, index, usual library markings, boards somewhat worn and soiled. Contains answers to problems. More
Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1983. First? Edition. First? Printing. Trade paperback. 21 cm, viii, 122, [2] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Endnotes. Glossary of Acronyms. Some wear and soiling to covers. This is National Security Affairs Monograph Series 83-6. Colonel Casper (Cass) J. Schichtle, Jr., United States Air Force, wrote this monograph while a Senior Research Fellow with the National Defense University and a student at the National War College. He Is a distinguished military graduate of. the AFROTC program at Drake University, where he received a bachelor of Arts Degree in mathematics. Under the sponsorship of the Civilian Institutions Division of the Air Force Institute of Technology, he received a master of science degree in operations research and statistics from Texas A&M University. As the first recipient of that university's Fellowship for Scholarship Excellence, he earned a Ph.D. In operation research and management. Colonel Schlchtle Is a parachutist and master navigator and holds seven civilian flying certificates (Commercial Flight Navigator and Commercial Pilot with Instrument and multiengine ratings). His flying experience included three years of development testing of E-3A Amber Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft while Deputy Air Force Plant Representative at the Boeing Company, Seattle Washington. More