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Microbe Hunters
by Kruif, Paul De
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Harcourt Brace. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-titled cloth. Inscribed to the ffep by De Kruif in the year of publication. PO name to ffep. Mild insecting/bumping, spine gilt dulled. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 363 pages; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
In this classic bestseller, Paul de Kruif dramatizes the pioneering bacteriological work of such scientists as Leeuwenhoek, Spallanzani, Koch, Pasteur, Reed, and Ehrlich. This seventieth anniversary edition features a new introduction by F. Gonzalez-Crussi. Index.
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- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48406
- Title
- Microbe Hunters
- Author
- Kruif, Paul De
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1926
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- Spine
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- FFEP
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- Cloth
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Gilt
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