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NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, vintage newspaper clipping . about atomic particles laid in.. 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Contributing Members of the Physics Staff of the University of Pittsburgh: Oswald H. Blackwood, Elmer Hutchisson, Thomas H. Osgood, Arthur E. Ruark, Wilfred N. St. Peter, George A. Scott, and Archie G. Worthing. Maroon cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. vi, 348 pp, many illustrations. An intermediate level college physics textbook about atomic principles, radioactivity, the theory of relativity, and astrophysics. From the library of George F. Vinal, a National Bureau of Standards scientist and authority on dry cell batteries and electrical standards. Vinal's signature and address, dated Jan. 18, 1935 on front free endpaper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .