Inscribed first edition of this popular science book dedicated to chemistry and all of its dualities, by the Nobel Laureate and theoretical chemist.
Very good plus in near fine jacket.
Price: $75.00
"The very first question a chemist asks when faced with a sample of anything new under the sun — some dust brought back at fantastic expense from the surface of the moon, an impure narcotic off the street, an elixer extracted from a thousand cockroach glands — is always the same: 'What do I have?'"
First printing. New York: Columbia University, (1995). 9'' x 6''. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine. In original color pictorial jacket designed by Teresa Bonner, no price (as issued). Brown endpapers. Illustrated in color and in black and white. xvi, 294 pages. Inscribed by Hoffmann to front fly leaf: For Fernando Vega / with shared attraction to the world of molecules / Roald Hoffmann / 1996" with doodle of molecule. Jacket with touch of edgewear and rubbing. Book with gentle bumping to head of spine, slight split to hinge at half-title (sound), some wrinkling to cloth from binding process at rear joint. Vibrant.
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