The Split Atom: Last Human Pair on Earth the Whirling of Ideas.

Los Angeles: Boris Ackerman, 1946. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. 478pp. Frontispiece, 2 illustrations. Very good. Item #19268

First edition of this self-important "Amphibian Novel" (to quote the front cover), obviously occasioned by the close of World War Two and public fascination with the atomic bomb. Signed boldly by its physician author in green ink on the front flyleaf. Unusual automotive-theme bookplate on front pastedown.

Price: $60.00

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