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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Xviii, 310 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. First Edition, Third Printing, 1929, Signed By Harold C. Urey). Slight Rubbing At Corners, Gilt Brilliant, Hinges Tight. Ownership Name And Signature Of Nobel Prize Winner Harold C. Urey On Front Free Endpaper, With Printed Donation Label From Urey To The Ucsd Library. Light Wear, But Re-Backed And Re-Tipped In Matching Green Cloth. Harold Clayton Urey (1893 -1981) Was An American Physical Chemist Whose Pioneering Work On Isotopes Earned Him The Nobel Prize In Chemistry In 1934 For The Discovery Of Deuterium.. He Was A Research Associate At Johns Hopkins University , And At Johns Hopkins Urey And Arthur Ruark Wrote Atoms, Quanta And Molecules (1930), One Of The First English Texts On Quantum Mechanics And Its Applications To Atomic And Molecular Systems He Became An Associate Professor Of Chemistry At Columbia University. In 1931, He Began Work With The Separation Of Isotopes That… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Xviii, 310 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. First Printing. Slight Rubbing At Corners, Gilt Brilliant, Hinges Tight. Ownership Name And Signature Of Henry Nelson Harkins (1905-1967), A Prominent Surgeon (University Of Chicago Phd 1926, Medical Degree 1930), Creator Of The First Surgical Residency Program,. And Long Time Professor At The University Of Washington; He Was The Son Of The Prominent Chemist William Draper Harkins. Extensive Notes On Rear Endpapers Regarding Overvoltage.

Van Nuys, California: The Marquardt Corporation, 1968. First Edition Thus . Yellow wraps/Spiral Binding. Good/No Dust Jacket. 11 1/4" Tall x 9. Paper for AIAA Propulsion Joint Specialist Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, June 10-14, 1968. " A method of utilizing chemical reactions to produce simulated air of high stagnation temperature and pressure was employed as a means of generating simulated flight conditions for application to testing of hypersonic, airbreathing engines. Certain gaseous oxidizers including nitrous and nitric oxides in combination with a gaseous fuel and diluent gases including argon and helium were reacted in a constant volume process to produce gases of high stagnation temperatures and pressure." This document contains 9 pages of text and 16 figures (pictures, graphs and charts). The wraps are soiled and stained and the front cover edges are shelf worn.

Washington: American Chemical Society, 1967. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Ix, 661 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket, Not Price Clipped. Werner Won The Nobel Prize For Chemistry In 1913 And Was Instrumental In The Development Of Modern Chemistry.

American Institute of Physics, 1986. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Xx, 218 Pp. Blue Cloth. Second Printing Stated. Fine, No Wear, No Marks.

San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1964. First Edition . Dark Gray Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 10 1/4" Tall. Fifty Seven Color Drawings By Roger Hayward. X, 117 Pp Including 51 Full Page Color Illustrations. Interior Immaculate. No Inscriptions. Dj With Slight Rubbing, Price Clipped.

Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1896. First Separate Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good + Dust Jacket. [Iii], 43 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. 33 Cm X 25 Cm. First Separate Hardcover Printing Of The Original Paper Describing Their Discovery Of Hydrogen. A Fine Copy, Bright And Fresh, Gilt Brilliant, No Marks Or Stains Or Fading, Slight Waviness To Front Free Endpaper Near The Spine Edge (Binding Flaw), Tiny Rubs Right On Edges At Spine Ends. With The Smithsonian Flyer Of May 1896 Describing The Book And Providing The Library Catalog Slips For The Book. Also With The Scarce Dust Jacket, Unprinted, Clean And Bright, Small Chips At Ends, Slight Browning (Much Less Than Usual).

Cambridge University Press, 1969. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Viii, 133 Pp. Cloth. First Printing. Near Fine, No Marks, Spine Gilt Bright.

Wiley-Interscience, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Xix, 357 Pp. Illustrated Boards. First Printing. Fine, No Wear, No Nmarks, But Tiny Bumps To Front Tips.

New York : Blaisdell Publishing Company (Ginn And Company), 1964. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Drawings Throughout. X, 162 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt Lettering And Black Designs. Near Fine Book, Rubbing At Corners, In A Good Dj With 3/4" Chip At Top Of Spine, 1/4" Chip Near Top Of Rear Flap Fold, 1/4" V-Chip At Top Of Front Flap Fold, A Few Other Short Tears And Minute Losses.

Dover Publications, 1964. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Two Volumes. Xvi,447 +{ Catalog At End; Vii, 448-810 + Catalog At End. Second Edition, Revised 1964. Fine, No Wear Or Marks.

Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg Und Sohn, 1888. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth/Boards. Near Fine. 9 1/8" Tall. 384; 362. Two volumes. Original three quarter maroon cloth over marbled boards. Frontispiece of Liebig, illustration of his laboratory on title page of Volume 1; frontispiece of Wohler and illustration of his laboratory on tile page of volume 2. Letters between two of the outstanding chemists of the nineteenth century. Liebig with Wohler established the theory of organic radicals, and established the division of foods into fats, carbohydrates and proteins. 1951 letters laid in, to and from the Library of Congress, which replies that this was the only edition, that it was apparently never translated into English, and that the Library of Congress did not own a copy but that a copy was reported to exist in the U.S. at the University of Washington at Seattle. Since that time, the letters were reprinted at Gottingen in 1982. Slight wear, some foxing to preliminary and final leaves,… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. First Edition, First Printing . Cloth. Near Fine/Good Dustjacket. 243 Pp. Cloth. First Edition. A Near Fine Example With A Small Bump To The Upper Tip Of The Front Board. Bookplate Of W H L "Herman" Mayer, University Of Chicago Mathematician, With Photograph At Top, And Also His U Of C Name Stamp. Clean Dj With Some Chipping At Edges/Corners, Loss Of 1/2 Of "N" In Macmillan On Spine, And Last Few Letters In Publisher's Address On Rear Panel.

New York: Maurizio Martino, 1991. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Xx, 673 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. Facsimile Reprint, 1991, One Of 300 Copies.

Philadelphia: F A Davis Company, 1968. First American Edition . Black Cloth, Gilt. Fine Book/Very Good + Dust Jacket. 340 pp. American issue, printed by Blackwell in England. A fine book, no wear, USC bookstore price stamp on front endpaper. DJ complete biut short tears at top and bottom of spine with short tape repairs.

Menlo Park: W. A. Benjamin, 1972. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good + Dust Jacket. Xiii, 301 Pp.Book Clean, Just A Touch Of Rubbing At Corners, No Names Or Marks Or Fading Or Stains. Dj Lightly Used, Light Edge Wear, Minute Loss At Upper Front Tip.

Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing / Interscience1955, 1955. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 61 Pp. Violet Cloth, Gilt. First Printing. Near Fine, Some Browning To Endpapers, Gilt Bright, No Marks. Dust Jacket With Light Wear, Tape Removal Scar Near Top Of Spine Removing Most Of Author's Name.

[1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946]: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Etc., 1940. Original Offprints . Red Cloth. Very Good. 39 Original Publisher's Offprints, Neatly Bound In Red Cloth With A Few Caltech Chemistry Library Markings, No Other Names Or Marks. Most Involve Pauling As Sole Author, Or Co-Author. The First 1940 Paper Is Reportedly The 9Th Most Cited Of All Pauling's Papers.

Weinheim: Verlag Chemie, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Xv, 388 Pp. Blue Cloth. First Printing. Near Fine; Former Owner's Information O Front Endpaper. Dust Jacket Showing Wear At Edges.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1925. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 84 Pp. Red Cloth With Paper Labels On Spine And Front Cover.First American Printing. Very Good +. Light Wear At Corners. Bookplate Of Stuart Walker, Friend Of Lord Dunsany And Sponsor Of His Plays At Walker's Portmanteau Theatre, The Bookplate Being Designed By Dugald Stewart Walker In His Characteristic Extremely Well Designed And Ultra-Elaborate Style, With His Initials In The Plate Along With "A. P. 1918" [Apparently An Artist's Proof?]. Haldane's Attempt To Write A Convincing, Rational Argument, Not Realizing That There Is Almost No Audience For Such Writing. A Musical Might Have Done Better.