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William Kelly: A True History of the So-Called Bessemer Process
by Boucher, John Newton
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Greensburg PA: Author, 1924. The author argues that Kelly developed the air-refining process for making steel some years before Bessemer patented it; the book includes discussion of patents, corporate histories, history of the manufacture of iron & steel, Andrew Carnegie, and Pittsburgh. Hardcover, full maroon cloth, gilt titling. General wear, corners bumped, some damage to the spine, small spot; ink names to endsheets, including a "Compliments W G Kelly" rubberstamp (Kelly died in 1888); hinges spilt internally; pages xv and [xvii] and their corresponding blank versos damaged, minor loss to text. Text clean; xv, [3], 258 pages; index, frontispiece & 7 b/w portraits.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- q0045
- Title
- William Kelly: A True History of the So-Called Bessemer Process
- Author
- Boucher, John Newton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Author
- Place of Publication
- Greensburg PA
- Date Published
- 1924
- Keywords
- Iron, Steel, Steel Industry, Iron Refining, Smelting, Smelters, Steelmaking, Metallurgy, Engineering, Invention
- Bookseller catalogs
- Metals, Metallurgy & Mining;
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- G
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