Modern Arms and Free Men: A Discussion of the Role of Science in Preserving Democracy

by Vannevar Bush

$1,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949. First edition. Signed by Vannevar Bush on the half title and warmly inscribed to former owner. xiv , 273, 1 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with black stamping and gilt lettering. Very Good+, lacking dust jacket, slightly sunned and rubbed spine, diagonal creases to front free endpaper. An important work that presaged the direction the US military and scientific establishments

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