Lausanne: EDIPOP, 1977. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover, in a plain slipcase [worn, torn and soiled]. 309, [1] pages. Illustrations (most in color). DJ as some wear, soiling, and small tears. Minor soiling to front end pages noted. Errata slip (In French and English) laid in. This work is by the direct descendants of Rene Lalique. It is an illustrated tale, the story of a man for whom creations was synonymous with life. The data for this book has been gathered from among the family's documents. The text is in French and English, the illustrations speak in a universal visual language. Note on page 21 there is a repeated line of text at the start of the paragraph at the bottom of the page. Please note that this book has an approximate shipping weight of 5.25 pounds (2.38 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. More

London: William Kimber and Co. Limited, 1987. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 254, [2] pages. DJ has large tear at mid/lower spine. No impact to cover. Includes Author's Preface and Acknowledgments; The Parson, the Pimp and the Duck-Pond; The Curate's Egg; Resurgam--I Shall Arise; Dykeri Pram En; The Two Abduls; Norfenfelt; The Land of Wonder; Epilogue; Notes and References; Technical Appendix; Select Bibliography, and Index. George William Littler Garrett (4 July 1852 – 26 February 1902) was a British clergyman and inventor who pioneered submarine design. He invented a diving suit in 1877, demonstrating it to the French government in the River Seine. An interest in the possible military application of what at the time were known as submarine boats prompted him to form the Garrett Submarine Navigation and Pneumataphore Company Limited and raise £10,000 through it from Manchester businessmen. (A pneumataphore was a device for removing carbon dioxide from the air). In 1878, he built a 14-foot (4.3 m) long hand-cranked submarine of about 4.5 tons, which he named the Resurgam. This was followed by the second (and more famous) Resurgam of 1879. It was 45 feet (14 m) long, displaced about 30 tons on the surface and 38 tons submerged and was powered by steam - the furnace and chimney being shut off before diving. The Resurgam was built by Cochran and Co in Birkenhead, Merseyside, Although the submarine was lost whilst under tow in 1880 on its way to trials in Portsmouth for the Royal Navy, it impressed the Swedish industrialist Thorsten Nordenfelt sufficiently to finance him. They built a submarine for Greece and two for Turkey. More

New York: Time, Inc., 2005. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. Format is approximately 8 inches by 10.5 inches. 80 pages, plus covers. Wraps. Illustrations (some in color). Cover has slight wear and soiling. Mailing information printed on front cover. The cover has a portrait of A. Q. Khan and the cover text states The Merchant of Menace Exclusive: How A. Q. Khan became the world's most dangerous nuclear trafficker. Page 22 has the story of the Time investigation of A. Q. Khan. Page 26 has a story on The Khan Network, and page 30 discussed Atomic Mullahs and Iran's nuclear plans. Abdul Qadeer Khan, NI, HI, FPAS (April 1936 – 10 October 2021), known as A. Q. Khan, was a Pakistani nuclear physicist and metallurgical engineer who is colloquially known as the "father of Pakistan's atomic weapons program". An émigré from India who migrated to Pakistan in 1952, Khan was educated in the metallurgical engineering departments of Western European technical universities where he pioneered studies in phase transitions of metallic alloys, uranium metallurgy, and isotope separation based on gas centrifuges. After learning of India's "Smiling Buddha" nuclear test in 1974, Khan joined his nation's clandestine efforts to develop atomic weapons when he founded the Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) in 1976 and was both its chief scientist and director for many years. In January 2004, Khan was subjected to a debriefing by the Musharraf administration over evidence of nuclear proliferation handed to them by the Bush administration of the United States. Khan was accused of selling nuclear secrets illegally and was put under house arrest in 2004. More

Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2003. Presumed first printings thus. Three Ring Binder. There appear to be four distinct presentations, or at least parts of presentations, in this three-ring binder. Binder and some wear and soiling. There is a combination of hard copy vugraphs and transparencies. This may be a unique surviving set of this information. Inside the front cover pocket is a hard copy briefing titled Lithium Salt/Uranium Interfacial Studies by Dan Kelly and Tom Jachimoski of the Chemistry division (C-SIC) of the Los Alamos National Laboratory which was presented at an ESC {Enhanced Surveillance Campaign] Program Review in April 2003. There are seven hardcopy sheets and discussion of Li Salt/U Interface Studies Protocol, SIMS, SNMS Initial Characterization of LiH Salt, XPS Characterization of Uranium Disk, Change in Can Pressure with Time, Mass spectra of Cans with and without Uranium, and Li Salt/U Interface Continuing Work. Laid in is a seven slide hardcopy presentations entitled LA-15 Uranium Corrosion and Aging by Robert J. Hanrahan, Jr. and several others from MST-6 Metallurgy presented on April 14, 2003 at LLNL and the Enhanced Surveillance Campaign Annual Review. The content addressed the initiation and growth of U-Hydride Pits, Hydriding Kinetics of Uranium, In-Situ Reactors, U 4f High Resolution XPS data (2 slides), and alpha-U metal high resolution valence band UPS data (1 slide). More

Washington DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2003. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 10.25 inches by 12 inches. 96 pages, Illustrations (color). This was published on the occasion of Atomic Time: Pure Science and Seduction, an exhibition of work by Jim Sanborn, organized by Jonathan P. Binstock at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., November 1, 2003, to January 26, 2004. Foreword by Jacquelyn Days Serwer. Essay on Tickling the Dragon's Tail by Howard Morland and essay on The Nature of Secrets--The Secrets of Nature by Barbara London, and Materials, Process, and Meaning, An Interview with Jim Sanborn by Milena Kalinovska. There are sections of Plates entitled Critical Assembly and Atomic Time. There are sections on Exhibition History, Selected Bibliography, Exhibition Checklist and About the Contributors. Herbert James Sanborn, Jr. (born November 14, 1945 in Washington, D.C.) is an American sculptor. He is best known for creating the encrypted Kryptos sculpture at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. He has created sculptural works for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Themes in his work have included "making the invisible visible", with many sculptures focusing on topics such as magnetism, the coriolis effect, secret messages, and mysteries of atomic reactions. In Atomic Time: Pure Science and Seduction, he presented a "life-size re-creation of a hypothetical atomic lab." The exhibit featured the sculpture Critical Assembly, a three-dimensional representation of the components of an atomic bomb. More

Anaheim, CA: Image Comics, Inc. [copyright held by Top Cow Productions], 1995. First Printing [Stated]. Wraps. Unpaginated (32 pages, plus covers) Color cover and internal illustrations. Brandon Peterson is an American comic book writer and artist, known for his work on Marvel Comics from Paterson New Jersey and Top Cow's Codename: Strykeforce in the 1990s. Peterson's early works for Marvel include a New Warriors annual and a fill-in in X-Factor in 1992. Later in the year, he had a short run in Uncanny X-Men, drawing the title's issues of the "X-Cutioner's Song" storyline. Peterson left Marvel to join Top Cow, pencilling the ongoing title Codename: Strykeforce. After the title's cancellation, he wrote and drew the creator-owned title Arcanum, before returning to Marvel in 1999 to work on several X-Men spinoff mini-series. He left Marvel once more to become Art Director of CrossGen Comics, but returned for another stint on Ultimate X-Men and the mini-series Ultimate Vision and Strange. More

Forestville, CA: Eclipse Comics, Studio Proteus, 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. Color covers. 24, [8] pages, plus covers. Illustrations within are in black and white. The Dirty Pair is an original English-language manga written and illustrated by Adam Warren, based on the original Dirty Pair characters created by Haruka Takachiho. The American comic company and manga translator Studio Proteus acquired rights to create comic versions of the Dirty Pair in 1988. The first three limited series, reprinted in the collected editions Biohazards, Dangerous Acquaintances, and Plague of Angels, were published by the since-defunct Eclipse Comics. Later, the rights were transferred to Dark Horse Comics. The first three series were written by Toren Smith and Adam Warren and drawn by Warren—after that, Smith left the project and Warren took over writing completely. These stories have a much more cyberpunk style than the other versions. Toren V. Smith (April 12, 1960 – March 4, 2013) was a Canadian manga translator and founder of Studio Proteus. Adam Warren (born 1967) is an American comic book writer and artist who is most famous for his original graphic novel Empowered, an adaptation of the characters known as Dirty Pair into an American comic book, and being one of the first American commercial illustrators to be influenced by the general manga style. Haruka agreed to license the characters for an American comic. This directly resulted in Warren's first major work, Dirty Pair: Biohazards, which he co-wrote with Smith and published through Studio Proteus and Eclipse Comics in 1989. More

Milwaukee, OR: Dark Horse Comics, Inc., 1993. Presumed First Edition, First printing of this issue. Wraps. Unpaginated (32 pages plus covers). Profusely illustrated (with colorful imagery). Charles Patrick Pfarrer III (born April 13, 1957) is an American writer, film producer, and former United States Navy SEAL. As an author, he has penned published screenplays, novels, comic book, and nonfiction works. Regardless of medium, his work usually deal with themes pertaining to the military, and he has worked on blockbuster films like Navy SEALs, Darkman, and Hard Target. He is the author and creator of six graphic novels for Dark Horse Comics, and wrote and produced two interactive full motion videos, Flash Traffic and Silent Steel, both for Tsunami Media. Virus is a Dark Horse Comics comic book, written by Chuck Pfarrer, drawn by Canadian artist Howard Cobb and first published in 1992. The story is about an alien life form which takes over a Chinese Navy research vessel and reconfigures it—using both the damaged electronics and the dead bodies of the crew, it propagates itself by making various "creatures" created out of both organic and inorganic parts. When a salvage ship shows up they have to deal with the life form or be taken over as well. Pfarrer said in an interview that when he wrote the original story as a script in the early 1990s, the special effects for a film adaptation wouldn't have been possible, so he sold the script to Dark Horse as a comic. It was later filmed (in 1999) as Virus. More

Portland, OR: Oni Press, Inc., 2000. First Edition [stated] thus, First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Unpaginated (48 pages plus covers). Profusely illustrated with striking imagery. Daniel Alan Brereton (born November 22, 1965, in the San Francisco Bay Area) is an American writer and illustrator who has produced notable work in the comic book field. Dan Brereton attended the California College of the Arts and the Academy of Art College. He stated in a 2014 interview that "One of earliest memories of drawing monsters is from kindergarten. Our teacher asked us one afternoon what we wanted to do with the hour we had left in class and I yelled out, 'Let’s draw monsters!'...So to my mind, anyway, monsters are the purest product of our imaginations, whether they be good or bad or just plain wild. That idea never ceases to inspire me and find its way into my work." He is known for his skills as a painter and his distinctive character designs. His first published work in the comics industry was the story "Lost Causes Chapter 1" in Merchants of Death #1 (July 1988) published by Eclipse Comics and he painted the Black Terror limited series in 1989–1990. Brereton gained further attention for his work on Batman: Thrillkiller, Superman and Batman: Legends of the World's Finest, and JLA: Seven Caskets, His most famous work is his own series "The Nocturnals." Brereton wrote and drew a Batman story for DC Comics' digital first anthology series Legends of the Dark Knight. Brereton's work also includes illustration for a video game called "Machine Head," the television show Numb3rs, and album covers for the bands Toto, Fireball Ministry, Sote, Ghoultown, and Rob Zombie's Hellbilly Deluxe. More

Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2012. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 12.25 inches by 9.25 inches. 122 pages. Decorative covers. Map (with color). Other map. Profusely illustrated (some in color). References. Index. This work was issued as Cultural Resources Report No. 313. The U.S. government chose the Pajarito Plateau in northern New Mexico as the site of its top-secret World War II project to design and develop the world's first atomic bombs. However, the plateau was not vacant. Hispanic homesteaders and other landowners, many who had farmed there for generations, were abruptly evicted in late 1942. This book has been written primarily for the descendants of the families who homesteaded the Pajarito Plateau in northern New Mexico beginning in the late 1880s. It is intended to serve as a record of a lifestyle now long gone,a time of “hard work and long days” that spanned just over half a century. During the fifty-five years between 1887—when the first official application for a homestead on the plateau was made—and late 1942, when the United States government began the condemnation process to acquire privately owned properties as part of the Manhattan Project’s secret Project Y, about thirty-six individuals, mostly Hispanic farmers and ranchers, established homesteads and used the resources of the plateau to supplement a subsistence-based way of life. More

Brookline, MA: Autumn Press, 1982. Presumed First Paperback Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xi, [1], 223 pages. Map. Figures Tables. Appendices. Notes. Some foxing to fore-edge. DJ somewhat soiled: small tears to edges. The United Nations' assessment of the dangers of current nuclear strategies and stockpiles, a rejection of the concepts of deterrence, counterforce, and limited nuclear war. The contents include: Foreword by the Secretary-General; Letter of Transmittal; Introduction; Factual Information on Present Nuclear Arsenals; trends in the Technological Development of Nuclear-Weapon Systems; Effects of the Use of Nuclear Weapons; The Doctrines of Deterrence and Other Theories Concerning Nuclear Weapons; Security Implications of the Continued Quantitative Increase and Qualitative Improvement of Nuclear-Weapon Systems; Implications of the treaties, Agreements, and Negotiations Related to Nuclear Disarmament and Conclusion: "The Perpetual Menace to Human Society" More

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1978. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [6], 234 pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Notes. Sources & Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Signed by the author on the fep. DJ has some wear, tears, and soiling. Front board weak and restrengthened with glue. One page of the photographic insert had separated and was glued back in. James William Kunetka (born September 29, 1944) is an American writer best known for his novels Warday and Nature's End. He has also written nonfiction on the topic of the atomic age. Kunetka received a BA in Political Science from the University of Texas at Austin. Kunetka's first book was City of Fire. Kunetka explains the technical problems that attended the construction of the first atomic bombs, going into detail about initiators, detonators, cores, tampers, explosive lenses. Add this to the shelf of works shedding new light on a turning point in history. More

New York: Pantheon Books [A Cornelia & Michael Bessie Book], 1992. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xi, [1], 371, [1] pages. This collection of essays has sections on Stories, Things, Institutions, Politics, Books and People. There are Bibliographical Notes and an Index. Signed by the author on the fep. Dyson presents a selection of essays that include discussions of his early fascination with science and space, his contemporary analyses of the politics of "smart" weapons, and more. Freeman John Dyson FRS (15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020) was an English-American theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his works in quantum field theory, astrophysics, random matrices, quantum mechanics, condensed matter, nuclear physics, and engineering. He was Professor Emeritus in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Dyson originated several concepts that bear his name, such as Dyson's transform, a technique in additive number theory, which he developed as part of his proof of Mann's theorem; the Dyson tree, a hypothetical genetically engineered plant capable of growing in a comet; the Dyson series, a perturbative series where each term is represented by Feynman diagrams; the Dyson sphere, a thought experiment to explain how a space-faring civilization would meet its energy requirements with a hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its power output; and Dyson's eternal intelligence, a means by which an immortal society of intelligent beings in an open universe could escape the prospect of the heat death of the universe by extending subjective time to infinity while expending only a finite amount of energy. More