College Technical Physics

New York, London: McGraw-Hill, 1947. First edition. Octavo in blue cloth (red and blue spine); including illustrations (including portraits); charts, tables, diagrams (some color); color frontispiece; 761 pp., 24 cm. Good(+) copy; boards are worn: rubbed and frayed at the corners and spine ends; boards are exposed at corners; rubbed along the edges; cloth is lightly scratched; gilt on titles is rubbed but titles are still readable; previous owner (Glaser) cataloged every book in his library with a spine label adhesive which will remain attached; binding is slightly leaning but tight; hinges are attached; a well-used, collectable copy with clean pages. Hardcover.

From the library of Nobel laureate Donald A. Glaser, inventor of the bubble chamber; NB: search keyword DGLSR for more collectible titles from the Glaser library; this volume comes with a syllabus and two blue book examinations for Physics 26, and early course taught by Glaser at University of Michigan; all three are signed as well as the book on ffep.; "University of Michigan, Department of Physics, Ann Arbor, Michigan stamped on ffep."; some marginalia on a few pages; (some of the material has been adapted from the authors' earlier book, Practical Physics); In English.