First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with drawings throughout the text by Roger Hayward. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the spine tips, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very good lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is darkened and scuffed to the spine. Not price-clipped (16/- to the lower front flap).
The two-time Nobel Prize winning chemist and peace activist Linus Pauling's passionate analysis of the implications of nuclear war for humanity.
Stock code: 27994
£50