Willard Gibbs
by Rukeyser, Muriel
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1942. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo. xi, 465 pp. b&w frontis - photo Willard Givvs, stated First Edition (verso), XX chapters with titles, Appendix, acknowledgments, five definitions, reading list, sources of quotations, Index. Blue Fine-Grained Cloth, Spine Gilt (faded but legible), Two Abstract Designs Blind-Stamped On Spine, Another On Front Panel. light wear to cloth at the extremities, a minor bubble 1" up from the bottom edge near the hinge, light age-toning to 1" e.p.'s at the gutter, binding tight and square, pages clean, unmarked, paper well-preserved. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008447
- Title
- Willard Gibbs
- Author
- Rukeyser, Muriel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Jr, New Haven, Connecticut - February 11, 1839 - April 28, 1903 - american mathematical physicist - statistical mechanics
- Bookseller catalogs
- BIOGRAPHY; U. S. HISTORY;
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
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