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Electrons And Holes In Semiconductors, With Applications To Transistor Electronics
by William Shockley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
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.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1712819158MHP
- Title
- Electrons And Holes In Semiconductors, With Applications To Transistor Electronics
- Author
- William Shockley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc
- Date Published
- 1963
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- 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...
- PUB
- Common abbreviation for 'published'
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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