Human Folly: To Disarm or Perish?

by MOCH, Jules; Albert EINSTEIN (<i>preface<i>); Edward HYAMS (<i>translator<i>).

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First edition

1955. 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 minister in several post-war governments, and was France's delegate to the UN Disarmament Committee for 1951-1960. It was this latter role that informed the principles he sets forth in Hum

• Year: 1955
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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