Jules; Albert EINSTEIN ( preface ); Edward HYAMS ( translator ). Human Folly: To Disarm or Perish?

by MOCH

£950 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

Nuclear Disarmament, from the Library of Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist MOCH, Jules; Albert EINSTEIN ( preface ); Edward HYAMS ( translator ). Human Folly: To Disarm or Perish? London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1955. [offered with:] BLACKETT, Patrick Maynard Stuart. The Atom and the Charter. [ London and Hereford: the Hereford Times for ] ‘Fabian Publications ltd, in conjunction with Victor Gollancz Ltd’ . September 1946. [ offered with :] BLACKETT, Patrick Maynard Stuart. The Atom and the Charter. [ London and Hereford: the Hereford Times for ] ‘Fabian Publications Ltd, in conjunction with Victor Gollancz Ltd’ . September 1946. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, in yellow dust-jacket printed in red and black; pp. 22, [2 (blank)]; maps and tables in the text, spine of jacket sunned, a little spotting to back cover, small closed tear to back flap hinge (c. 10 mm), lettering to spine rubbed, small chip to upper joint; very good; contemporary Foyles label to pastedown ‘P. M. S. Blackett’ (see below), with Blackett’s ownership inscription in blue ink to front free endpaper. First English edition, with a preface by Einstein, of this work arguing for nuclear disarmament, translated by the gardener, novelist, and anarchist Edward Byams, this copy from the library of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Patrick Blackett, whose own work is discussed at length in the book. Jules Moch (1893–1985) worked as a French Resistance organiser during the war, later became a senior minis

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