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LIGHT IS A MESSENGER: The Life and Science of William Lawrence Bragg
by Hunter, Graeme K.
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780198529217
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- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 89.11
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Oxford: Oxford University Press (2004) 302 pp. Original white covers, very bright and clean. Few small numbers written along foredge of rear paste-down. DJ has modest wear to top edges. Illust. w/ b/w photos and figures. Contents very nice.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
SGD 89.11
FROM IMMIGRANT TO INVENTOR
by Pupin, Michael
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- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Published
- 1925
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 23.31
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New York/London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. 396 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Titles lightly rubbed. Light fraying to corners and spine ends. Creases to top corner of front cover. Previous owner's name on front blank endpaper. Light scattered foxing. Illust. w/ b/w plates and drawings. (Remnants of Dust… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 23.31
MENDELEYEV: The Story of a Great Scientist
by Posin, Daniel Q.
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- Used - Very Good-
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- No Dust Jacket
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 30.16
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New York/Toronto: Whittlesey House/McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. (1948) 346 pp. Original gray cloth covers, lightly soiled and rubbed. Top corner of front cover bumped. Previous owner's name in pencil on front blank endpapers; owner's name in green ink on title page. Illust. w/ b/w plates.. Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 30.16
TINKERS AND GENIUS: The Story of the Yankee Inventors/American Procession Series
by Fuller, Edmund/Alsberg, Henry G. (Series Editor)
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- Used - Very Good
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- Good+
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- First Edition
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 30.16
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New York: Hastings House (1955) 308 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Faint sunning to edges. Spine ends and top corner of front cover bumped. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. DJ moderately soiled and foxed w/ wear to edges. Few short, closed tears to edges.… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 30.16
EINSTEIN: A Centenary Volume
by French, A. P. (Editor)
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- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Published
- 1979
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780674242302
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- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 30.16
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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979. 332 pp. Original red cloth covers, very bright and clean. Spine ends slightly bumped. Green marker to top margin of page 329, not affecting text. DJ has wear to edges w/ approx. 1/4" closed tear from bottom edge of front panel. Illust. w/ b/w photos.. Second Printing. Hard Cover.… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 30.16
ELIAS E. RIES, INVENTOR
by Ries, Estelle H.
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- Used - Good+ to Very Good-
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- No Dust Jacket
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 23.31
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New York, NY: Philosophical Library (1951) 370 pp. Original gray cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Rubbing to edges w/ wear/fraying to top of spine. Illust. w/ a b/w frontispiece of Elias Eikan Ries. Contents nice.. Hard Cover. Good+ to Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
SGD 23.31
ANATOMIST AT LARGE: An Autobiography and Selected Essays of a Distinguished Biologist/Contemporary Men of Science Series
by Corner, George W.
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- Used - Good+ to Very Good-
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- Good+
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 23.31
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New York, NY: Basic Books (1958) 216 pp. Original blue paper covered boards w/ gilt title on red cloth spine. Faint sunning to edges. Spine ends a bit bumped. Several small brown stains to foredge of text block. DJ lightly soiled and rubbed w/ wear to edges. Small, faint dampstains to spine. … Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 23.31
A MAGICIAN OF SCIENCE: The Boys' Life of Steinmetz
by Hammond, John Winthrop
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Dust Jacket
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 50.72
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New York and London: The Century Company (1926) 210 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ light rubbing to corners and spine ends. Illust. w/ 4 b/w plates. Contents nice.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Item Price
SGD 50.72
LEONARDO'S INVENTIONS
by Mathe, Jean (Text)/MacRae, David (Translator)
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780517307120
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 30.16
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New York, NY: Crescent Books (1980) 108 pp. Original brown covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Spine ends a bit bumped. Edges of leaves lightly age toned. DJ lightly soiled. Top edges a bit darkened. Illust. w/ numerous reproductions of Da Vinci's sketches. Contents nice.. Hard… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 30.16
ANTOINE LAVOISIER: The Father of Modern Chemistry
by McKie, Douglas/Donnan, F. G. (Introduction)
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- Used - Very Good-
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- Good
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 43.87
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Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company [1935] 304 pp. Original yellow-green cloth covers, lightly soiled. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. DJ moderately soiled w/ wear and short tears to edges. Small chip to top of spine. Spine a bit darkened. Illust. w/ b/w plates and figures.. Hard Cover. Very… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 43.87
A PORTRAIT OF ISAAC NEWTON
by Manuel, Frank E.
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- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1968
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 95.96
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Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1968. 478 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Spine ends bumped. DJ lightly soiled w/ wear to edges. Spine a bit darkened. Illust. w/ b/w plates. Contents very nice.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 95.96
A REASONABLE REBEL: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
by Brinitzer, Carl/Smith, Bernard (Translator)
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1960
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 30.16
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New York, NY: The MacMillan Company, 1960. 204 pp. Original black cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Top of spine bumped. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. DJ lightly soiled w/ wear to edges. Spine and rear edges darkened. Approx. 1/2" closed tear and approx. 3/4" closed… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 30.16
A MEASURE FOR GREATNESS: A Short Biography of Edward Weston
by Woodbury, David O.
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1949
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 41.13
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New York: McGraw- Hill Book Co., Inc., 1949. 230 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ silver title on binding. Corners bumped. Normal shelf wear. DJ has wear and tear to edges w/ piece missing from top of spine. Lightly soiled. Scuffed. Inside flaps sunned along edges. Illust. w/ b/w drawings. . First… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 41.13
ALBERT EINSTEIN: Maker of Universes
by Garbedian, H. Gordon
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- Used - Very Good-
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- No Dust Jacket
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1939
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 23.31
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New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1939. 328 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding moderately soiled. Light foxing to edges of text block. Previous owner's name in pencil on front paste-down. Illust. w/ b/w photos and drawings. Contents nice.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket.… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 23.31
A PATHFINDER: Discovery, Invention and Industry/How the World Came to Have Aquadag and Oildag; Also, Carborundum, Artificial Graphite and Other Valuable Products of the Electric Furnace
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- Used - Very Good-
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- No Dust Jacket
- Published
- 1910
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 37.01
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New York: The Press Scrap Book, 1910. 144 pp. Original gray cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Spine and edges sunned. Top corner of rear cover bumped. Ex-library w/ expected markings; card pocket removed from rear endpaper. "Edward Goodrich Acheson" written on title page. Light scattered foxing. Illust. w/ a frontispiece of Edward… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 37.01
DMITRY IVANOVICH MENDELEYEV: His Life and Work
by Pisarzhevsky, O. N.
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- Used - Very Good-
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- No Dust Jacket
- Published
- 1954
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 30.16
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Moscow, Russia: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1954. 102 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Corners bumped. Normal shelf wear. Natural discoloration to endpapers. Illust. w/ b/w photos. Contents very nice.. Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
SGD 30.16
MY HALF CENTURY AS AN INVENTOR
by Fuller, Frederick L. [Lincoln]/Watson, Thos. J. (Foreword)
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- Used - Very Good-
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- No Dust Jacket
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 37.01
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Frederick L. Fuller (1938) 242 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Binding lightly rubbed; spine and edges sunned. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Illust. w/ b/w plates and figures.. Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Price
SGD 37.01
PHILIPP REIS: Inventor of the Telephone/Telecommunications Series
by Thompson, Silvanus P./Sterling, Christopher H. (Advisory Editor)/Kittross, John M.; Shiers, George; Sivowitch, Elliot (Editorial Board)
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Dust Jacket
- Published
- 1974
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 248.13
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New York: Arno Press/A New York Times Company, 1974. 182+pp. Original red cloth covers, very bright and clean. Light bumping to top edges and top corner of rear cover. Ex-library w/ usual markings. Illust. w/ b/w figures.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
SGD 248.13
NIELS BOHR: The Man, His Science, and the World They Changed
by Moore, Ruth
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1966
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 30.16
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. 436+pp. Original red cloth covers, very bright and clean. Spine ends a bit bumped. DJ lightly soiled w/ mild edge wear. Approx. 1/4" closed tear from top edge of front panel. Illust. w/ b/w photos. Contents nice.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good-. Illus. by Sue Richert… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 30.16
ROBERT ANDREWS MILLIKAN COLLECTION AT THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: Guide to a Microfilm Edition
by Goodstein, Judith R. (Editor)/Gunns, Albert F. and Underleak, Ann (Associate Editors)
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Published
- 1977
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 41.13
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Pasadena, CA: California Institute of Technology, 1977. 98 pp. Original brown wraps w/ title on front cover. Very bright and clean. Contents very nice.. Soft Cover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
SGD 41.13
