Noble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth Century
by Slack Charles:
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0786867892
- ISBN 13
- 9780786867899
- Seller
-
Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Hyperion. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2002. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback. 0786867892 . Advance Uncorrected Proofs. August, 2002. Never been read, but shows some signs of shelf wear and rubbing on the front cover. "Noble Obsession is a riveting work of history that reads like enthralling fiction. It tells how Goodyear, a single-minded genius, risked his own life and his family's in a quest to unlock the secrets of rubber, and how Thomas Hancock, the scholarly English inventor who raced against Goodyear, ultimately robbed him of fame and forutne." ; Advanced Uncorrected; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 262 pages .
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- Seller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 537
- Title
- Noble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth Century
- Author
- Slack Charles:
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0786867892
- ISBN 13
- 9780786867899
- Publisher
- Hyperion
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- 0786867892, Rubber, Industry, Goodyear, Charles
- Bookseller catalogs
- Technical; Biography; Science; Technology;
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