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The Nature of the Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals
by Pauling, Linus
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. Fair with no dust jacket. 1945. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library stamps, labels, and markings. Rebound in red cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Spine rubbed and worn with 135mm split along lower end of rear joint, with paper tape repair. 15mm tears at head and tail of spine. Gutters split at hinges. Some pencil marginalia.; Second edition. Third printing, December 1945. xvi, 450, [1], [1 (blank)] pages. Rebound in red cloth boards. Page dimensions: 219 x 146mm. Illustrated with figures, chemical diagrams, graphs, tables. "For a long time I have been planning to write a book on the structure of molecules and crystals and the nature of the chemical bond." - from the Preface to the First Edition, dated June 1938. "The progress made in the field of modern structural chemistry during the past year has consisted in the main in the determination of the structures of a number of especially interesting molecules and crystals. I have been glad to have the opportunity provided by the exhaustion of the first edition of this book to revise it by the includes of references to these researches and of discussion of the new structures." - from the Preface to the Second Edition, dated February 28, 1940. .
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- Seller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 25130
- Title
- The Nature of the Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals
- Author
- Pauling, Linus
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Place of Publication
- Ithaca, New York
- Date Published
- 1945
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Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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