ELECTRONS AND HOLES IN SEMICONDUCTORS with Applications to Transistor Electronics by Shockley, William

D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, NY, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, hardcover. No dj, blue cloth. Vg condition. Previous owner's stamp on inside front cover and textblock edges; covers and contents clean, unworn, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 558 pp.

New York: Van Nostrand. Near Fine. 1954. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Small name stamp on endpaper & edges; cloth faded on spine & edges; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 558 pages .

New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, 1955. First edition, later printing edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 23.5 cm. ... First edition, later printing. Hardcover, good condition, with lightly rubbed brds--a few light marks. some light tanning at edges. Tanned spine, lightly slanted and compressed, very ltly bumped corners. somewhat tanned p. edges, some light dust. Ltly Boards . ISBN: B002EXYOY4. Catalogs: Engineering.

D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, 1963. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1963. Eighth printing. 558 pages. Pictorial dust jacket, in removable plastic wrapper, over blue cloth. Gilt lettering in black panel on spine. Black and white diagrams throughout and a photographic frontispiece. In the Bell Laboratories Series. Final book listed on rear panel of jacket is Shive's Properties of Semiconductors, pub. 1959, so jacket is not first state. Pages remain bright and clean with mild tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper and pastedown. Small bookshop stamp to front and rear free endpapers. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Some mild, faint marks to surfaces. Boards are slightly bowed. Gilt is bright. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Mild tanning and foxing, rubbing and marking overall. Slight tape repair to foot of spine. Plastic wrapper rubbed and marked.

Toronto, New York, London: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, 1950. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. [2], [2 - frontispiece], [iii]-xxiii, [1 blank], [1]-558 pages, followed by blank leaf and appendix B which was printed on both sides of the rear flyleaf plus the rear pastedown (3 pages total). 8vo. The first printing, [November] 1950. Publisher's light blue cloth boards with black and gilt spine label. Previous owner stamps, affixed label, and old inked price on endpapers. Boards have some staining and overall wear. Top of spine bumped affecting textblock. Spine sunned (yellowed) as normal, with some flaking of the color. Foxing to recto of the frontispiece. Musty basement smell - not bad but there nonetheless (hence the bargain price). A well loved copy. Cloth. An important book by Shockley who, with Bardeen and Brattain, co-invented the transistor and were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 ''for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect''. A… Read More