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Herbert H. Dow: Pioneer in Creative Chemistry
by Campbell, Murray and Hatton, Harrison
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Poor dust jacket
- Seller
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Traverse City, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. Very Good in Poor dust jacket. 1951. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A biography of the founder of Dow Chemical of Midland, Michigan. A nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings in the original blue cloth covers with white spine and cover lettering. There is a bit of minor shelf wear to the edges. The dust jacket is in generally poor condition with marginal chips and tears and and wear.; B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 168 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peninsula Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3831
- Title
- Herbert H. Dow: Pioneer in Creative Chemistry
- Author
- Campbell, Murray and Hatton, Harrison
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Poor dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Appleton-Century-Crofts
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- Biography, Business, Michigan, Chemistry, Midland
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peninsula Books
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Traverse City, Michigan
About Peninsula Books
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- Spine
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- Shelf Wear
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- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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