2020 March

Vice Admiral Homer N. Wallin, Pearl Harbor

Wallin, Vice Admaral Homer W., USN (Retired),  Pearl Harbor:  Why, How, Fleet Salvage and Final Appraisal, with a Foreward by Rear Admiral Ernest McNeill Eller, USN, Director of Naval History.   Washington, Naval History Divison, 1968.   [xv], [1]-377,  10” x 7”.  Blue cloth over boards, gold stamped titles and Navy seal, no dj as issued. Fine, first edition.   The […]

Wolfgang Finkelnburg, Atomic Physics

Finkelnburg, Wolfgang,   Atomic Physics. , New York, McGraw-Hill, 1950, [x] 1-498 pages.  Green cloth covered boards in dust jacket.    9.25” x 6”. First American edition, fine is a very good but slightly faded dust jacket,  2 previous owner stamps on front end paper. Finkelnburg did post-doctoral research at Cal Tech in the 1930s before returning to Germany and […]