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General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy by SMYTH, Henry de Wolf

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Title: General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy
Author: SMYTH, Henry de Wolf
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description: [Washington D.C.]: [printed at the Pentagon], 1945. FISKE, Milan D.. for Military Purposes Under the Auspices of the United States Government 1940 -1945 ... Written at the request of Major General L.R. Groves United States Army. [Washington D.C.: printed at the Pentagon, 1945]. First edition, advance publication copy for press use. One of 1,000 copies. Cyclostyled pages, stapled (10 3/8 x 7 7/8 inches; 264 x 200 mm.). [8], 19, [1, blank], 10, 7, [1, blank], 15, [1, blank], 9, [1, blank], 14, 15, [1, blank],17, [1, blank], 13, [1, blank], 10, 13, [1, blank], 12, 3, [1, blank], 6, 2, 3, [1, blank], 5, [1, blank], 1, [1, blank] pp. With intertextual diagrams and "Released for Publication on ____" lithographed on lower inner corner of front wrapper. With duplicate extra leaf "x-5." Complete. Original textured cream wrappers stapled in three places along inner edge. Wrappers slightly soiled. Spine with a small dampstain. Internally very clean. About fine. This is the first edition of the first description of the technical development of the atomic bomb, published on 12 August 1945, just six days after Hiroshima. Until the publication of A General Account research and development had been undertaken in conditions of the utmost secrecy and the report was also prepared in secret. However, the British and American governments decided that the widest dissemination of this "remarkably full and candid account" (PMM) was in the public interest, and this first edition was distributed to journalists for radio use on 11 August and for press use the next day. This first edition with a Foreword by L.R. Groves is described as a "lithoprint" and was printed in the Adjutant General's office in the Pentagon from a typescript. "All pertinent scientific information which can be released to the public at this time without violating the needs of national security is contained in this volume. No requests for additional information should be made to private persons or organizations associated directly or indirectly with the project. Persons disclosing or securing additional information by any means whatsoever without authorization are subject to severe penalties under the Espionage Act" (Groves, from the Foreword). Although it does not state anywhere, this copy belonged to American physicist and director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Norris Bradbury. In July 1944, Bradbury a naval commander, transferred to Los Alamos to work on the Manhattan Project. In 1945, Oppenheimer resigned as director of Los Alamos and recommended Bradbury for his replacement. Norman Library 1962. Printing and the Mind of Man, 422e. HBS 67805. $5,000.

1894 – Two letters on illustrated stationery from the owner of a Hudson Valley apple brandy distillery assuring a supplier that he would make good on what he owed by J. A. Terry

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Title: 1894 – Two letters on illustrated stationery from the owner of a Hudson Valley apple brandy distillery assuring a supplier that he would make good on what he owed
Author: J. A. Terry
Seller: Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Walden, New York, 1894. Envelope or Cover. Very good. These letters from J. A. Terry, the owner of Old Sycamore Apple Brandy Distillery in Walden, New York to Esmond & Ward, perhaps apple suppliers, of Newburgh, are dated May 3 and May 16, 1994. Both are written on exceptionally attractive stationery depicting the busy distillery complex and enclosed in a mailing envelope that features the same illustration. The envelope bears a circular Walden postmark ais franked with a red 2-cent Washington stamp canceled with a ‘circle of wedges’ handstamp. In nice shape with a little postal soiling to the envelope. In the letters, Terry assures Esmond & Ward that he will soon pay them what he owes in person, explaining that he had been unable to settle the debt because “My revenue tax . . . was charged 254 more for those barrels . . . than I could buy them for any other place but I will call in some day next week and pay the bill.” . This was not the first time that the Old Sycamore Distillery had a run-in with federal revenue agents. As noted in small print under the illustration, Terry was the “Successor to B. K. Johnson.” Just five years before this letter was written, aggressive federal revenue agents seized Johnson’s distillery after discovering a mere $1,700 of apple brandy in barrels without revenue stamps indicating that no federal tax had yet been paid. Johnson, who was described in the press as “a model of honesty and uprightness” was arrested. Although he offered to settle the case, he was rebuffed by the Attorney General and pushed into a deep depression and had such an “effect upon the man’s brain that [he rapidly plummeted] into critical condition [and] expected to go insane.” Since colonial times the apple farmers and innkeepers of the Hudson Valley had sold vast quantities of their apple brandy (also known as ‘apple jack’ or simply ‘apple’) without any government interference. However, that changed in the mid-to-late 1870s. Recognizing a cash cow when it saw one, the federal government prohibited the sale of apple brandy without a license and imposed a 90-cent per gallon tax upon it. Locals resisted, and soon many found not just their brandy confiscated, but their homes, farms, and inns seized, and themselves imprisoned. (For more information, see “Defining Moments in Hudson Valley Applejack” at the Hudson Valley Wine website and “Sequel of a Government Seizure” in the 20 April 1899 issue of the New York Times.) .

Evening Hours with My Children: Or, Conversations on the Gospel Story by [ANONYMOUS]

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Title: Evening Hours with My Children: Or, Conversations on the Gospel Story
Author: [ANONYMOUS]
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Description: New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 530 Broadway, 1859. [JUVENILE] [RELIGION]. R. CRAIGHEAD, Printer, Stereotyper, and Electrotyper, Caxton Building, 81,83,85 Centre Street. M.U. [Matthew Urlwin] SEARS; J. [John] GILBERT; engravers. 4to (10 ½" x 8 1/8"); 143pp; quarter bound in black cloth with printed brown boards; engraved pictorial of angel with shepherds on the front with lettering; engraved fp with tissue guard + 11 additional full-page engravings; pictorial vignette on title page; printer info on verso title page; rubbing to boards with loss, corners bumped, some staining; very good minus. OCLC locates only 1 copy of the 1859 edition with this printer at UVA. First published in London by James Nisbet in 1855, and in New York the same year by Robert Carter & Brothers. The twelve "Evening" chapters are presented as conversations about the life of Jesus between a mother and her children. Beautiful engravings, many signed by Matthew Urlwin Sears (1798-1870) and by Sir John Gilbert (1817-1897).

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF CLAIMS, TO WHOM WAS REFERRED THE PETITION OF BENJAMIN WELLS, AND THE COUNTER PETITION OF SUNDRY INHABITANTS OF FAYETTE COUNTY, WITH THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THEREON. 21ST. APRIL, 1800. COMMITTED TO A COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE TOMORROW. [PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.] by [Wells, Benjamin]

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Title: REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF CLAIMS, TO WHOM WAS REFERRED THE PETITION OF BENJAMIN WELLS, AND THE COUNTER PETITION OF SUNDRY INHABITANTS OF FAYETTE COUNTY, WITH THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THEREON. 21ST. APRIL, 1800. COMMITTED TO A COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE TOMORROW. [PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.]
Author: [Wells, Benjamin]
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: [Philadelphia, 1800. 4pp, disbound. Near Fine. Wells's petition was motivated by losses sustained "in the four Western Counties of Pennsylvania in the destruction of property by the insurgents in" 1794, i.e., the Whiskey Rebellion. Evans 38847. NAIP w025657 [7].

Catalog X: a sexually oriented catalog for gays, lesbians & discerning heterosexuals; Winter 1996

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Title: Catalog X: a sexually oriented catalog for gays, lesbians & discerning heterosexuals; Winter 1996
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Description: Ft. Lauderdale: National Marketing, 1996. Magazine. 48p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, explicit gay men's toys, videos, magazines etc., a very good condition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Subtitle claims the products are for lesbians and straights as well but clearly the content focuses on gay males.

The War in Vietnam by Deane, Hugh

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Title: The War in Vietnam
Author: Deane, Hugh
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Description: New York: Monthly Review Press, 1963. Pamphlet. 32p., 5.5x8.5 inches, ink stamp on front wrap else very good first edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Monthly Review pamphlet series no. 23.

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To Bear Any Burden, The Vietnam War and its Aftermath in the words of Americans & Southeast Asians by SANTOLI, Al

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Title: To Bear Any Burden, The Vietnam War and its Aftermath in the words of Americans & Southeast Asians
Author: SANTOLI, Al
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780525243274
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket; Book and dust jacket show slight rubbing, bumping.

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