London: Neville Spearman, 1982. Third printing. Hardcover, octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 192 pp. Near fine book; very good price-clipped dust jacket, upper cover top edge creased and lightly warped, otherwise light shelf wear. Jacket design by Carol Smither. Burr pioneered studies and theories in Bio-electrics, herein proposing the concept of 'L-fields' as the fields of life through which electric current flows and can be measured. He further describes these fields as the communicative bridge connecting inanimate life to the living world. Burr elaborates on the blueprint for life which can provide an electrical mapping of biological, agricultural and physiological systems and patterns essential to understanding how their components interact.

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Bookseller: Better Read Than Dead (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2115
Title: Blueprint for Immortality
Author: Harold Saxton Burr
Illustrator: Jacket design by Carol Smither
Format/Binding: Hardcover, octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 192 pp
Book Condition: Used - Near fine book; very good price-clipped dust jacket, upper cover top edge creased and lightly warped, otherwise light shelf wear
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Third printing
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0854352813
ISBN 13: 9780854352814
Publisher: Neville Spearman
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1982
Keywords: L-Fields, Saxton Burr, Blueprint for Immortality

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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....
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...