Butterworth Scientific Publications, 1949. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1949. First Edition. 401 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Ex-libris plate stuck to front free endpaper. Volume I. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Pencil inscription to front pastedown. Thumb-marking present. Notable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Some crushing to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine and edges. Marks overall. Textblock is shaky.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1659451363BPD
Title: Progress in Metal Physics - 1
Author: Bruce Chalmers (Ed.)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Butterworth Scientific Publications
Date Published: 1949

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Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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....
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...
First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Gutter: The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.