Semi-Precious Stones by Wooster, N - 1952

Penguin Books, 1952. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1952. First Edition. Unpaginated. Dust jacket over matching boards. Contains colour illustrated plates throughout. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Binding throughout remains firm. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild tanning to spine and board edges. Mild crushing to spine ends. Boards are mildly warped. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Mild water staining to rear panel. Heavy tanning to spine. Light rubbing and marking all over.

Penguin Books, 1952. Hardcover. Acceptable/Good. 1952. First Edition. 31 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green paper covered boards. Illustrated colour plates. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Plates are bright and clear. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Boards are moderately bowed. Clipped jacket has moderate edge-wear with chips, tears and creasing.

UK: Penguin Bks.. 1952. vg. Hardcover. 7-1/87" tall x 4-3/4"; 32pp text including brief bibliography + 16 color platers; green marbled cover; dust jacket matches cover, has wear & tear to edges, is in new clear protective mylar .

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952., 1952. 12mo. 16 colour plates by Arthur Smith. bds. (edges bumped). dw. (corners bumped, spine sunned & chipped, previous owner’s address label to front paste-down, small surface loss to upper front dw.). First Edition.. 1st Edition. Hardcover.

1994. 1994 Bhattacharya, Pallab SEMICONDUCTOR OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, c1994 first printing 535pp, index 8vo As new unread hardcover.

London: Penguin, 1952. Hardcover. Good/Good. King Penguin volume on gem stones with 16 illustrations by Arthur Smith. Some rubbing to edges of DJ. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Contents clean and tight. Good.

DW. Not price clipped. @ tape marks each to fold in flaps. Clean and tight.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952. 32, 16 col plates. . HB. Vg in d/w. Neat monogram of the artist Arthur Smith (A.S.) to endpaper.. .

King Penguin Books, Middlesex, 1952. First edition.. Hardback.. Colour illustrations by Arthur Smith. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. DJ protected by high-grade removable clear cover.

Middlesex: Penguin, 1952. Dust jacket edgeworn, corners and spine ends bumped and chipped with loss to foot of spine, closed tear to foot of spine 6cms, spine edges worn, spine browned, title box to front cover lightly rubbed, boards clean and tidy, corners and spine ends lightly bumped, pp clean and bright, 16 colour plates by Arthur Smith bright, internal gutters cracked between plates 8 and 9 otherwise string binding sound.. Hard. Very Good/Poor. Illus. by Smith, Arthur. 12mo.