THE SPLIT ATOM. The Last Human Pair on Earth, The Whirling of Ideas.

First edition. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding firm with slight bumping at spine tips, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the very good rubbed and nicked dustwrapper, that has several small chips upper edge and a slightly darkened spine.

Benjamin Belove (1880-1969) was a Russian-born American physician and author, serving as a medical officer for the US army in WWI. The Split Atom, his only novel, explores an alternative world history which culminates in the destruction of humanity by nuclear weapons. (Bleiler).