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Crucibles, the Lives and Achievements of the Great Chemists
by Jaffee, Bernard
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1934. Third Printing. . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 377 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in green cloth. The binding is worn and shows fading on the spine as well as the front and rear covers near the spine and top edges. Early owner's ink inscription on the front flyleaf. Endpapers, frontis and title page foxed. Gutter cracking between the frontis and the title. The text block itself is sound, and the text has some foxing on the pages facing the illustrations.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044235
- Title
- Crucibles, the Lives and Achievements of the Great Chemists
- Author
- Jaffee, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third Printing.
- Publisher
- Tudor Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Size
- 8vo - over 7� - 9�" tall
- Weight
- 2.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1934; Bernard Jaffee; Crucibles; Chemistry; Chemists; Science; Scientists; History.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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