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Rutherford Recollections of the Cambridge Days
by Oliphant, Mark; J. Chadwick (Foreword)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good + condition
- ISBN 10
- 0444409688
- ISBN 13
- 9780444409683
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Amsterdam, London, New York: Elsevier Publishing Company, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Very good + condition. Large Octavo. xii, (4) 158pp. Original black cloth with orange lettering on spine; in original photo-illustrated dustjacket, white and orange lettering on spine. Frontispiece. Publisher's device on title page. "The author, one of the very few who worked closely with Lord Rutherford, and who knew him and Lady Rutherford personally, records here his recollections of Rutherford at home, on holiday and in the laboratory, together with such memories of this great man of science as he has been able to obtain from contemporaries, colleagues and students." (Publisher). With thirty-seven illustration, mostly photographs and some reproductions of letters. Dustjacket with very light wear along edges. Block lightly age-toned.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52453
- Title
- Rutherford Recollections of the Cambridge Days
- Author
- Oliphant, Mark; J. Chadwick (Foreword)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good + condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0444409688
- ISBN 13
- 9780444409683
- Publisher
- Elsevier Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Amsterdam, London, New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- b/w photography, biography, letters, science
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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