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WARD, Hilda. The Girl and the Motor. Cincinnati, Gas Engine Publishing Co. 1908. Octavo publisher's illustrated red cloth blocked in gilt and black; [8],111pp, five plates by the author. A nice copy. Au$150
Women mechanics and motor cars - it had to come. This is the only edition of a light hearted account of the author - a young artist who later exhibited in the 1913 Armory Show - and her battles and triumphs with the internal combustion engine first with a motor boat, then a motor car, and becomes a guide for the woman - any - car owner. Ward's particular claim to our attention is her determination to learn and perform all mechanical repairs herself - rather than just learn to drive - and she writes with occasional asperity about the problems of a woman wanting to be a mechanic. As such it must be pretty early in the canon.
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New of Pom and Song The English and Japanese. Tokyo, 1887 [Meiji 20]. Small octavo publisher's illustrated wrapper; [2],32,[2]pp. A bit used, rather good copy for such a vulnerable thing. A christmas gift inscription on the front to 'Father' dated Dec 16, 1887. Au$1,200
A pioneering Japanese foray into English poetry and poetry in English which I can't find in any western library, in any library. Elsewhere I found two references to this. One is Basil Chamberlain's 'Things Japanese', the other 'Japan for a Week' by Alexander M. Thompson who clearly never saw this booklet but, misreading Chamberlain, requotes a poem from 'Things Japanese' which isn't in this. Chamberlain, in the chapter 'English as She is Japped' quotes two poems without explicitly stating they are from this; they aren't. Did he see the book?
What is here is a mix of what seem to be poems by English and Japanese writers, things that are more aphorisms and morals than poems and an intriguing excerpt from Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade. This isn't a production for western tourists or export of the pretty sort that became popular through the 1890's. This is a modest first step of the Japanese setting out - as they did with all things western - to learn, encompass and digest a new form.
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>Giichi Akita. [The entry used by Worldcat names him Hodo Akita]. [In Japanese] 算法地方大成 - Sanpo Jikata Taisei. Tokyo, Kitajima Junshiro &c 1837 (Tenpo 8). Five volumes (25x18cm) publisher's wrappers; 4,156 double folded leaves, numerous woodcut illustrations. A spot of worming in the first cover and a touch in another volume, a rather good set. Au$450
First edition of this manual of land management and surveying, published at a troublesome time in Japanese history: the 1830s brought a movement, fiercely resisted by the authorities, towards the adoption of western science and technology and, relevant to this book in particular, a period of horrendous drought, famine and unrest in rural Japan. Land surveying was primarily concerned with taxation and, before the Meiji reforms, accurate measurement was not only unimportant but unwanted. The extent and value of land was a matter for negotiation.
The intricacies of Japanese land surveying in the early modern period demand long learned essays - and after reading a couple I'm none the wiser - but what is clear is that this book is a major work in the history of rural engineering, survey and management. It was also problematic for the authorities: "problems in surveyor education were aggravated by government censorship. Bakufu officials did not want administrative uses of survey techniques discussed in public. Under the guise of 'respect authority; despise the people (kanson minpi),' the mysteries of official practice were not to be released to the public domain." (Brown: A Case of Failed Technology Transfer - Land Survey Technology in Early Modern Japan; 1998). The authorities did suppress or attempt to suppress the Sanpo Jikata Taisei; Brown refers us to the preface of the 1976 reprint of this book for details and I came across another reference that claimed the woodblocks were destroyed.
This seems fairly scarce outside Japan; the title is well represented in western libraries but once we discard the 1976 reprint I found only two libraries with originals through Worldcat.
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Japanese Fairy Tales. Urashima. Translated by B.H.Chamberlain. Published by the Kobunsha, No.2,, Minami Saegicho, Tokyo. [1886]. 185x127mm, fourteen double folded leaves, colour woodcut illustrations. Japanese Fairy Tale Series No.8. Au$150
First edition, on plain paper, with only the phonetically transliterated Japanese title on front wrapper and the English title - The Fisher-Boy Urashima - at the beginning of the story. Also printed on crepe paper; the first edition is considered to be the plain paper issue.
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DAVIES, Charles Maurice. Heterodox London: or, Phases of Free Thought in the Metropolis. London, Tinsley 1874. Two volumes octavo publisher's brown cloth blocked in black and gilt. A quite good pair. Au$250
First edition. I must admit I took no notice of Davies' more successful books 'Orthodox London' and 'Unorthodox London' in the past, dismissing them as church stuff. Thanks to an article by Arnold Hunt in the Book Collector, in their handy occasional series 'Uncollected Authors', I've now learnt that both Davis and his books are more interesting than that.
Davies was an Anglican cleric who turned to scribbling and ended up a disgrace. His 'London' books are frontline, occasionally undercover, reportage of the wild and woolly boomtime spiritual life of London. In 'Heterodox London', apparently the least successful of the series (it never made it into a second edition - the Freethought crowd bought and remaindered a fair number of copies), he has turned to the secularists, the free-thinkers, working-men's associations, radicals, atheists, vegetarians, socialists, spiritualists ... rabble rousers of all creeds. He attends a debate of the Dialectical Society on cremation, listens to Bradlaugh argue away the existence of God, attends a Positivist school.
Davies is chatty, amiable, tolerant and thorough and the reader gets the impression that the further he travels from the acceptable the more he likes it. And it seems to have been true. His final disgrace in the church was not due to any forgiveable heresy - he was accused of the attempted rape of a teenage girl - and he continued to regard himself as a churchman; just the minister of an increasingly bizarre personal church. Hunt's article obliges with excerpts from reviews of his books, appreciative to the first but increasingly scathing or indignant as each book appeared. This one was "vulgar, often offensive" and evil in "the undue prominence it gives to nobodies and their very unimportant opinions" (Pall Mall Gazette and Tinsley's Magazine respectively).
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>HUMBER, William. A Complete Treatise on Cast and Wrought Iron Bridges ... illustrated by numerous examples, drawn to a large scale. Third edition ... revised and considerably enlarged. London, Lockwood 1870. Two volumes folio half red morocco (some splodges on the cloth); mounted albumen print as frontispiece, 17 plates (some folding), illustrations in the text in volume I; colour litho as frontispiece and 98 double page or folding plates in volume II. Some spotting, a couple of minor signs of use; a rather good, handsome pair with the inscription of Australian engineer Charles A.C. Wilson who built at least one iron bridge in Victoria. Au$2,100
Best edition of this exemplary study, with theory, practice and detailed descriptions and illustrations of all types of mid-Victorian iron bridges. Grouped by type: iron arch, plate girder, trellis and lattice girder, bow-string and - new to this edition - suspension bridges. Illustrated bridges include Brunel's Saltash Bridge (the subject of Fenton's photograph), the Taptee viaduct in India, a bridge outside Melbourne, the Franz Joseph Bridge in Prague ...
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>GARNIER, Tony. Les Grands Travaux de la Ville de Lyon. Etudes, projets et travaux executes. Paris, Massin [1920]. folio, loose as issued in publisher's portfolio of cloth backed printed boards; 12pp and 56 plates - drawings, plans, elevations and photos. Au$1,200
In Garnier's work in Lyon, instigated by the mayor Edouard Herriott from 1906 on, he realised many of the ideas set forth in his Cite Industrielle and some of the ideas in Cite Industrielle came from his work in Lyon. Une Cite Industrielle was largely finished by 1904 but not published until 1918 so he had the chance to plug a few of the gaps in his imagined city from his real city. Some projects here were completed in later years and some never realised.
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McGRATH, Raymond. Twentieth Century Houses. Faber 1934. Octavo publisher's cream cloth blocked in yellow and brown; 232pp, numerous photo illustrations and plans. The cloth a little browned; a rather good copy of a book that didn't wear well. Au$275
'The examples of building in this book .. are an education in a new way of thought and a wise way of living' (foreword). Polemic and an modernist survey that got to exotic places covered by few other books - Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Japan, Spain, even a couple of Sydney houses - taking in architects shunned by the architectural establishment (like Schindler), and the as yet unbuilt - Fuller's Dymaxion houses.
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LANG, John. Too Much Alike; or, the three calendars. Third edition. London, Ward & Lock 1855. Octavo, a nice copy in mildly scuffed half calf. sold
A slight but exciting and popular enough novel by Australia's first born novelist - three editions appeared in 1855 and a few more in later years. Miller and Macartney tell us it was published in 1854 but this is a forgivable mistake given there seems to be no copy of the first edition in any library in Australia. Nor of the second, nor the third. One copy of the fourth edition is found by Trove and then there is a gap until the Cole edition of 1891.
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GARLAND, Hamlin. The Tyranny of the Dark. NY, Harper 1905. Octavo publisher's illustrated blue cloth blocked in gilt, black and white; eight plates. A nice, bright copy. Au$100
First edition. A thriller revolving around psychics, a delectable young medium and those who would malevolently conrol her.
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FREEMAN, R. Austin. The Surprising Adventures of Mr Shuttlebury Cobb. London, Hodder [1927]. Octavo publisher's decorated brown cloth. A few spots on the edges and the first couple of leaves but a rather good, bright copy. Au$75
First edition.
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REID, William. The Progress of the Development of the Law of Storms, and of the Variable Winds, with the practical application of the subject to navigation. London, John Weale 1849. Tall octavo publisher's blindstamped cloth, paper spine label (cloth a bit worn at the tips); iv,424,[1]pp, six plates or charts (three folding), charts and diagrams through the text. Inscribed "with the author's compts" on the front endpaper. Au$400
First (only?) edition of this contribution of no small importance to the science of storms and an admirable example of founding any science on first principles - which makes it surprisingly readable. Reid has collected accounts of storms and organised them into such chapters as: Simultaneous storms on opposite sides of the equator, Storms in the Bay of Bengal, Storms of the Arabian Sea, Typhoons of the China Sea, Tropical storms in the southern hemisphere and so on; as well as his own experiences and observations in the Bermudas. The practical application of this is, of course, safety and Reid is credited with being "the first to give the rules for the manoeuvring of ships in order to avoid the worst dangers of cyclones and therein to have introduced the distinction between the navigable semicircle and the dangerous semicircle" (Shaw; 'Manual of Meteorology').
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>Death. Naosuke Gonda(?). 葬儀式附圖 [Sogishiki Fuzu]. Tokyo 1887(?). 225x150mm original wrapper with title label; 38 double folded leaves (ie 76pp) with numerous woodblock illustrations. An excellent copy. Au$285
A well illustrated guide to Shinto funeral ceremonies and burial.
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NORTON, John Bruce. A Letter to Robert Lowe ... on the Condition and Requirements of the Presidency of Madras. Madras, printed by Messrs. Pharoah and Co. 1854. Octavo (original?) marbled cloth (spine and corners worn and chipped with about half an inch missing from the bottom of the spine); x,325pp and errata slip. The binding seems original; it is competent and simply, not quite crudely, lettered and ruled in gilt on the spine. Inside quite a good copy. Au$250
Norton was a Madras lawyer, sometime sheriff and later professor of law and Advocate-General, and this is an extensively documented warning and savaging of the British mishandling of Madras and the appalling state of pretty much everything. 'Woe be to India if the present crisis is allowed to slip by unimproved' he says here and three years later in his 'The Rebellion in India: How to Prevent Another' he, understandably, reminds his readers that he told them so.
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>Paper. S.D. Warrens Company Boston. Warren's Paper Buyers Guide. Practical demonstrations on Warren's standard printing papers ... 1919. The company 1919. Quarto publisher's cloth backed boards (used but decent and solid); 108pp illustrated throughout in colour and back and white. A tear in one margin but quite good inside. Au$100
A handsome paper sample book displaying all sorts of commercial work, mostly advertising, on various papers. Details like screens and printing inks are given as well as those for the paper. Warren does list one agent outside America: B.J. Ball Ltd of Australia.
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>George Vivian and Family Scrapbook. Scrapbook compiled by members of the Vivian family throughout the 19th century. n.p. c1800-1900. Solid folio (48x30cm) half calf (rebacked); some 120 leaves of blue paper packed both sides with ephemera, prints and news clipping, and many extra inserts. Au$2,000
It won't take as long to go through this as it took the two or three or four generations of Vivians to compile it but still, it'll take a while. A cavalcade of the 19th century as lived by the privileged. On the first page are tickets for prestigious seats at the coronation of George IV - more elaborately produced as security against forgery than a banknote it looks to me. On the last page are programmes and menus for the 1902 South African dinner of the 3rd Scots Guards and the catalogue of the band's instruments sold by auction at the end of the dinner. In between, the adventures, pre-occupations and fancies of the Vivians.
There were plenty of Vivians, well to do Vivians, and more than one George - the name that reappears on European travel ephemera in the 1820s and 30s - but the places and dates defy coincidence and let us identify George as George Vivian 1798-1873 of Claverton Manor, painter and artist of luxurious books of views of Portugal, Spain and Italy, member of the Society of Dilettanti, and big-wig in the English art world - he was one of the commissioners for the new parliament.
I took photos of some early pages and stopped before it got out of hand. In those pages you can see: the tickets to George's coronation; one of three quarto size broadsides printed in Hyde Park during the peace celebrations in 1814; a mock 1823 banknote issued by Self & Co. of Threadneedle Street promising to give the most superior haircut in Europe or forfeit one hundred pounds; an 1823 Florentine theatre bill; a folio four page catalogue in French and English of goods sold by Couture, perfumer and liquorist of Florence; a Spanish bill for a Donizetti opera and a Catalan diligence ticket from the 1830s; an 'extraordinary gazette' from Madrid announcing the death of Ferdinand, a handbill for Donizetti's Anna Boleyn and a broadside sonnet to Queen Isabel II; a collection of illustrious continental visiting guards that surprised me with the variety and sophistication of printing and card stock; the first part of a long broadside programme for Victoria's coronation - the rest on the following two pages, followed by the similar programme for the wedding of Victoria and Albert; a large 1836 bill of fare for a Berlin restaurant - sorry, wrong page, a bill of fare for a French restaurant facing a papal certificate for a relic and a sketch of a masquarede parade; some English visiting cards, a group invitation from Vivian, Lord Sandwich, Mr Hope and Lord Redesdale to The Stadium at Cremorne House (this was de Berenger's sporting club - see The Morning Post, July 16 1836, for an account of the splendid fete champetre), an invitation to privately view Strawberry Hill and a sketch of a woman; a large 1835 ticket of residence for St Petersburg.
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>CATLIN, George. The Breath of Life or mal-Respiration and its effects upon enjoyments & life of man. (manu-graph). London, Trubner 1862. Octavo publisher's printed boards (marked, rebacked); 75pp, illustrations by Catlin through the text. A used but thoroughly decent copy. Au$600
First English and best edition; the New York edition of 1861 and the later editions (titled Shut Your Mouth and Save Your Life) are printed letterpress and don't have the charm of this lithographed facsimile of manuscript. Catlin's gift to the civilized world is simple to enunciate - sleep with your mouth shut. The theory and practice are little more complex but the benefits are astounding: no more premature death, death of children; no more idiots, lunatics, deaf, dumb, or hunchbacks. This "most important motto which human language can convey" was learned from example during his years of ethnographic labours among some 150 tribes of "wild people" in North and South America. He doesn't ignore, though, the evidence that the exemplary sanitary habits of these people gave them no protection against small-pox and whiskey.
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BRINDLEY, W. & S. WEATHERLY Ancient Sepulchral Monuments. Containing illustrations of over six hundred examples from various countries and from the earliest periods down to the end of the eighteenth century. London, for the authors 1887. folio publisher's cloth (extremities worn); [48]pp & 212 litho plates. Scattered spots. Au$250
An encyclopaedia of gravestones: measured drawings, most with plan or profile diagrams. The last four plates are of alphabets.
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Sydney Regional Plan Convention. Sydney's Need. Being the second brochure of the Sydney Regional Plan Convention. [cover title]. An Exhibition of Plans & Photographs ... Sydney [printed by Shepherd & Newman] 1924. Octavo publisher's printed wrapper (marked); [16]pp with 12 mounted photo illustrations. Used but very decent. Winston Barnett's ownership label inside the front cover. Au$150
To accompany an exhibition held at Farmers in February and March 1924. The Sydney Regional Plan Convention was a fairly short lived attempt by a fairly heavyweight group of planners, architects, politicians, and civilians to convince the government that a "comprehensive and rational" plan for future development was essential. The bulk of this is a bit of polemic signed R.K.H. and B.J.W. - undoubtedly R. Keith Harris and B.J. Waterhouse. A quick glance at the comparative pictures - Sydney and elsewhere - suggests that the convention's main aim was neatness but perhaps this is an unfair judgment. The Convention's first brochure was a 1922 pamphlet also titled 'Sydney's Need'.
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BOLTON, Arthur T. The Gardens of Italy, with historical and descriptive notes by E. March Phillipps. London, Country Life 1919. Folio publisher's two-tone cloth; viii,396pp, tipped colour frontispiece, hundreds of photo illustrations, plans &c. Au$300
A revised edition but for "all practical purposes, a new book".
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>Samuel Reeves Ltd. London. Ten printed posters for shops, teashops, etc. London, all printed by Samuel Reeves Ltd [190-?]. From about 45cm to 78cm in height. Some small tears, some foxing, all rather good. Au$1,200
Reeves specialised in posters, banners and display cards for the trade and this is a good selection of their work probably from the early 20th century. In recent years replicas of some Reeves' posters were produced by a craft printer using Reeve's wood types; these are original.
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DAWE, W. Carlton. Kakemonos. London, John Lane 1897. Octavo publisher's illustrated mustard cloth. A few insignificant marks, endpapers a bit browned, a rather good copy. Keynote series. Au$150
First edition of a collection of tales of the far east. An almost acceptable amount of blood and violent death, plenty of the dangers of racial and cultural conflict and reams of now unacceptable calumny.
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LANDAU, David &c [ed]. Print Quarterly. Volume I number 1 [... to Volume XXVII Number 4]. London 1984 - 2010. 27 volumes in 108 parts, large octavo publisher's wrappers; profusely illustrated in colour and b/w. Publisher's cloth slipcases for all but two years (I add that up to be £750 worth of slipcases by the advertised price), indices for volumes one to twenty in two cloth bound volumes. Au$1,450 including shipping by courier to most places in the world. Au$1,000 if you pick them up.
The essential learned journal for the print world. Opening a number at random I find long essays on Bartolomeo Coriolano and William Kentridge.
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The Atom Bomb - First Response
A few years I started gathering the earliest published responses to the atom bomb I could find published round the world, pamphlets on the whole. They went to a university library so I started again, looking particularly to fill the gaps. But, I couldn't replace most of those I'd found - easily enough thanks to the wonder of vialibri - first time round. Still, I found a few new ones. In the meantime the librarian of that university has moved on and I'm not sure I'll live long enough to put together another significant gathering so these few are offered in case someone else wants to take over.
If you happen to have any 1945 atom bomb pamphlets and leaflets hanging round I would be happy to hear from you, I might be inspired to keep going. Specially if you have either of the two Chinese pamphlets I believe exist, or what I think may be the only Japanese publication of 1945.
RICHTER, W. Franz. The Atom Bomb! What it Really Means for Human Society. London, Social Science Association, August 1945. Octavo publisher's printed wrapper; 16pp. Au$100
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JABLOW, Bernard & Robert DE MEXICO. The Atom Bomb. A Study of Atom Power. NY, Independent Book Associates 1945. Quarto publisher's illustrated wrapper; 32pp, illustrations. Inoffensive library stamp on the cover. Au$285
The authors come to the world government conclusion.
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HERRSTROM, W.D. The Atomic Bomb and the End of the World. Minneapolis, Bible News Flashes [1945]. Octavo publisher's illustrated wrapper; 48pp. Au$90
Herrstrom comes with a subtitle: World Traveler, Prophetic Analyst.
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HUTCHINS, Robert M. The Atomic Bomb Versus Civilization. Washington & Chicago, Human Events Inc 1945. Octavo publisher's printed wrapper; 14pp. Au$80
The Human Events Pamphlets Number 1 - for December 1945. Hutchins was the Chancellor of the University of Chicago so this is ostensibly an authoritive voice of reason. Hutchins outlines choices and prospects that are bleak at best: other countries will soon have the bomb no matter what and there is no defense - disperse the cities, move deep underground, increase scientific, industrial and military strength? Won't work. The only hope for survival is to let loose the secrets of the atom bomb and form a world community. American education is a failure and America holds no moral high ground in these pages: "we ... shall never be able to appeal to the moral sense of mankind to protect us against the atomic bomb, because we used it, and we used it when we did not need to do so." This last, damning, phrase is the most intriguing of all and nowhere does Hutchins enlarge on it.
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de ROOS, J.L. De Atoombom, de bom net atoomsplitsende werking. Haarlem, Stam [1945]. Octavo publisher's illustrated wrapper; 102pp, photo illustrations and diagrams through the text. Au$100
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>MOERKERK, J.J. Atoomkrachten, hun ontdekking en beteekenis. Rotterdam, Wyt 1945. Octavo publisher's printed wrapper; 92pp, photo plates and illustrations through the text. Natural browning of the paper. Au$90
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BUCK, Tim. 'Atomic Diplomacy'. A Threat to World Peace. Toronto, Labor-Progressive Party [1945]. Octavo; 32pp including cover (a bit marked). Au$90
A speech delivered on November 8 1945.
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PIEROTTI, Giuseppe. Misteri e Storia dell'Atomo. Come si e giunti "Bomba Atomica". Firenze, Nerbini 1945. Large octavo publisher's colour illustrated wrapper (a tear repaired at the top of the spine); 48pp, diagrams through the text. Au$250
That's not Florence being blown apart on the cover, neither is it anywhere in Japan. Is it a generic non-Firenze or is it somewhere in particular being anihilated?
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KNOX, Ronald. God and the Atom. London, Sheed & Ward 1945. Octavo publisher's cloth and dustwrapper; 143pp. Au$30
It took an atom bomb to interrupt Knox's work of translating scripture, or so the publisher's blurb suggests. Knox abhors the idea of a new age, the atomic age - the bomb - as it were cleaning the slate of human history: 'if we are going to think of our age as discontinuous with the past .. we shall not even have the gloomy satisfaction of profiting by experience.' The prime target of the bomb, he sees, 'in the next few years .. it will be launched as a fresh bombshell against the structure of religious orthodoxy.'
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WOODWARD, E.L. Some Political Consequences of the Atomic Bomb. Oxford University Press 1945. Octavo publisher's printed wrapper; 24pp. Au$90
A lecture given by the Professor of International Relations in early November - almost two months to ponder the consequences. A gloomy rumination, stressing the need to choose between good and evil, but with no clear answers. Woodward does not see world government as practical or desirable, nor the alternatives of laissez-faire, the domination of the USA, or international agreement through the United Nations.
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Uranus. [R.E. Strittmotter?] Atom-Bomben - Erschutten die Welt! Zurich, Gropengiesser 1945. Octavo publisher's illustrated wrapper; 72pp & 8pp publisher's list, illustrations through the text. Au$150
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CLARK, Robert E.D. The Atomic Bomb: What of the Future? London, Paternoster Press 1945. Octavo publisher's printed wrapper; 48pp, some diagrams through the text. Au$90
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SMITH, Wilbur M. The Atomic Bomb and the Word of God. Chicago, Moody Press [1945]. Octavo publisher's illustrated wrapper; 32pp. Au$85
Apparently the second edition with a "supplementary note to the second edition" added at the end regarding a declaration by the Archbishop of York reported on October 27, ten days after the first edition was published.
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CLARK, C.H. Douglas. The Story of the Atomic Bomb. A popular review of the principle discoveries which have led up to its production. London, The Machinery Publishing Co. [1945]. 8vo publisher's printed wrapper and explosive dustwrapper (this a bit used); 52pp, ills & diagrams through the text. Au$150
Not the first but an early Englishmen into print on the bomb: his preface is dated 20.9.45 and his "ms. was framed before the official British and American reports were available". Clark was at Leeds University, not a lightweight in the world of atoms, and claimed a history of warnings about the "impending release of atomic energy". Warnings seem forgotten in his now gung-ho enthusiasm for this "wonderful messenger of peace" given an international "new growth of of moral sense".
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PIGNEDOLI, Antonio. La Bomba Atomica - Emmecidue. Modena, Berben 1945. Small octavo publisher's printed wrapper; 108,[4]pp, a few illustrations. Au$125
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LEVY, Hyman. Peace and the Atom. London, MuseArts 1945. Octavo publisher's illustrated wrapper; 32pp, illustrations through the text. Au$100
Third impression; all three impressions appeared in September 1945.
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REY, A. Bravo. Atomos Disintegrados - Hiroshima. Madrid, Perman 1945. Octavo publisher's illustrated wrapper; 200pp, illustrations through the text. Au$125
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MALCUZYNSKI, K. Od Atomu do Bomby. Warsaw, Czytelnik 1945. Octavo publisher's printed wrapper; 32pp. Used but decent. Au$150
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GEDDES, WENDT &c. The Atomic Age Opens, prepared by the editors of Pocket Books. NY, Pocket Books August 1945. Octavo publisher's illustrated wrapper; 256pp, photo illustrations and diagrams. A touch rubbed but a very good copy. Au$60
First printing of the first book on the atomic bomb; the published edition of the Smyth Report did not appear until September. There was a hardcover edition of this but it didn't appear for another couple of months. Pocket Books have gathered every scrap of available information and canvassed opinion, rabid and reasonable both for and against, coming to the conclusion that the ownership of the bomb belongs to mankind and that the 'only answer to this kind of world power is a new kind of world society'.
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