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HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

Ulan Press, 2012-08-31. Paperback. Used:Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Ulan Press, 2012-08-31. Paperback. Used: Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1922. viii, 152pp. Original publisher's blind-ruled navy cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed and bumped. Endpapers browned, bookseller's ticket to FEP, contemporary inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP. The first edition of physicist and chemist Francis William Aston's (1877-1945) seminal treatise on his discovery of isotopes in non-radioactive elements, for which he was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. PMM 412.. First edition. 8vo.

London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1922. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. viii,152 pages. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth gilt. Previous owner name penciled on front flyleaf. Several previous bookseller markings on pastedown endpapers (codes, prices, inventory numbers). Endpapers lightly offset (toned) as normal. A few penciled notations in the text. Boards lightly bowed, top page edges dusty. A sound copy. Cloth. Aston was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1922 "for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole-number rule." Aston was an assistant to JJ Thomson (PMM 386 - cathode rays) who in 1913 entrusted him with "the task of ascertaining the difference in atomic weights of [two forms] of neon." Interrupted by WWI, Aston after the war worked to improve Thomson's parabola experiments, devising "the mass spectrograph by which the gas traces were induced to focus themselves within a much… Read More

London: Edward Arnold and Company, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. viii, 152pp. illustrated with 18 figures. Original navy cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good, sans jacket. Cloth has spots of foxing, light wear, former owner's name stamped on paste down, pages toned. Small slip "Printed in Great Britain" pasted on copyright page, presumably by publisher. Chemist and physicist Aston won a Nobel Prize in the year of publication for his discovery of isotopes. A title in Printing and the Mind of Man.

London: Edward Arnold, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First Impression of Aston's key work on isotopes, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1922. 8vo: viii,152pp, with 4 halftone plates and numerous tables and line drawings in the text. Publisher's original dark blue cloth, covers paneled in blind, spine lettered in gilt. A beautiful copy, uncommon in such nice condition. Fine, except for light offsetting to end papers and slightly bumped spine ends. Appears unread. Judging from auction records, never issued in dust jacket. Norman 77. PMM 412. Gillispie, pp. 320-22. Aston, building on the work of J. J. Thomson at Cambridge, developed modern mass spectrograph technology to investigate inconsistencies in the atomic weights of elements, discovering that "the elements are composed of atoms of varying mass, the atomic weight of an element being the average of those atoms comprising it.... [Frederick] Soddy had coined the term isotopes for elements that are ‘homogenous in chemical… Read More