Hardcover. London, Neville Spearman, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 285 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dj has tape repair on top edges, chipping, fraying and rubbing throughout dust jacket. Cover boards show medium wear on corners, as well as spine. Light foxing to fore edge text block. Black and white illustrations.
Hardcover. New York NY, Plenum Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 303 pages, tables and diagrams throughout, with b&w photographs. Title printed in gilt on the spine, cloth bound. Minor foxing on upper edge near spine. Dust jacket has minimal edgewear and rubbing. Very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, VCH Publishers, Inc., 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated boards, 337 pages; indexes, appendices, extensive chemical diagramming and tables, with some b&w photographs; bumped bottom corner, previous owner's signature on front endpaper; cover shows minimal wear; "fourteen articles by leading researchers constituting the first book devoted exclusively to the biological utilization of nickel" (from the cover). Very tight, clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated/Praeger, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 361 pages. Blue covers w/ gilt lettering. Previous owner's signature inside front cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Raven Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 316 pages illustrated with b&w diagrams and charts. Tight and clean, review copy with publisher letter laid in.
Softcover. London, Black Dog Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 185 pages, color illustrations. Contemporary designers, artists and scientists explore the evolution of this ubiquitous and endlessly malleable material, through its trademarked names - Spandex, Teflon, Nylon, Rayon, Formica, Tupperware - through to looking at how its function and reputation have changed over its lifetime. It is an essential book for designers, academics and everyone interested in our consumer culture.
Hardcover. New York/Basel, Marcel Dekker, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated boards, 1069 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, otherwise clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Volume 1 only, 491 pages. Very clean and bright copy, unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket with slight rubbing.
Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 481 pages. Clean and unmarked copy. Unclipped dust jacket with minor sun-fade to spine.
Softcover. London/Rome, John Libbey, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 585 pages, b&w illustrations. Volume 3 only. Very clean and unmarked copy. Covers have very light wear.
Softcover. London/Rome, John Libbey, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, clean and tight copy of volume 5. 775 pages, illustrated with b&w charts. Rubbing to wraps with crease on the front. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Academic Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages, b&w illustrations. Gray cloth with silver lettering on spine, in a bright dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on inside front cover, otherwise clean and tight.
Hardcover. Amsterdam, Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press, 1st thus, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 491 pages. Red boards with white printed illustration & white titles to cover & spine. Black & white illustrations throughout, including figures, chart, tables & photographs. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Seeley Service & Co, reprint, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 349 pages, pictorial blue cloth with gilt, white and red design. Contains 35 black and white plates throughout. Paper tanning, book opened roughly at title page, blank bookplate on front fly leaf. Covers bright.
Hardcover. London, Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 206 pages, b&w illustrations. Red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's name stamped on inside front cover, otherwise clean. Mild musty smell.