[Rarebooks] fs: Riggs. War - 1974, 1st ed., DJ

Back Creek Books admin at backcreekbooks.com
Wed Nov 24 13:59:48 EST 2004


Greetings All,

For your consideration:
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(No. 7006 )  Riggs, Robert B.. WAR - 1974.
Harrisburg: Military service Publishing Co., (1958). First printing,
Hardcover, Octavo, viii, 304 pages, black & white photographs, drawings.
Fine in a Near Fine Dust Jacket, Jacket in Mylar protector.
      An interesting and imaginative novel of future and a nuclear war,
written a Lt. Colonel during the early Cold War. Col. Riggs, who
participated in the 1951 atomic tests at Eniwetok, here explores what a
major ICBM missile attack on American population centers would be like based
upon what was known about current and anticipated weapons at that time.
"America is now essentially a nation of people living in automobiles as the
population spreads out over the super-highway networks to the motel
complexes and small towns that have been predesignated to serve evacuees in
the event of war." Section of photographic plates and drawings by the author
at rear depicting actual weapons and imagined scenes of futuristic warfare.
Original Doubleday Book Shop order card and bookmark laid in. Bound in light
blue textured paper over boards with red stamped spine title and upper board
illustration and title. Light extremity rubs. Jacket has a closed 1/2" tear
at bottom edge of rear panel near joint fold, another in a similar location
at top edge of rear panel, and a few minor edge rubs and shallow chips.
Spine not faded, clean and bright overall.    $50.00
See photo: http://www.backcreekbooks.com/bookphotos/7006.jpg

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