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THE TRIUMPH OF MAN IN SCIENCE AND INVENTION
Written by Ellison Hawks.
Stock no. 815997
Published by T.C. & E.C. Jack Ltd.. 1st 1929. Very good condition.

Blue cloth, gilt titles & vignette. Colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 426 pages including index. Front vertical edge of cover worn, corners worn. Title to spine rubbed. Covers lightly scuffed. Hand-made free front endpaper has come unstuck i.e. is loose. All plates present. A few foxspots. Text block untrimmed.

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ESSAYS IN PHYSICS VOLUME 3
Written by G.K.T. Conn; G.N. Fowler.
Stock no. 816009
Published by Academic Press. 1st 1971. Almost very good condition.

Three Essays: Superconductivity and long-range order; Statistical theories of the liquid state, and Geomagnetism. Edied by Conn & Fowler. Purple and black cardwraps. ix and 169 pages. ISBN: 0121848035. Covers grubby and edge-rubbed. Browning and foxing to text block. Half-title page creased. Light crease to lower corner of contents else contents clean.

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GLOSSARY OF PHYSICS
Written by Le Roy D. Weld.
Stock no. 812059
Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1st 1937. Slightly better than good condition.

Compiled and edited by Le Roy D. Weld with the collaoration of a large group of Consultant Physicists. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. x and 255 pages. Boards lightly marked. Text block browned. Large piece of top corner clipped from front endpaper. Stamps and markings to front endpapers. A few scattered foxspots else clean.

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X-RAYS: THEIR DISCOVERY AND APPLICATIONS (A SCIENCE MUSEUM BOOKLET)
Written by Brian Bowers.
Stock no. 811539
Published by HMSO. 1970. Very good condition.

X-rays are produced whenever fast moving electrons hit a solid object. The Science Museum posssesses an extensive collection of X-ray tubes, including examples of all the types mentioned in this booklet. Staple bound booklet. B/w cardwraps. B/w photos and illustrations. 35 pages. Identification label to base of spine on front edge. Covers scuffed. Previous owner's embossed circular stamp to contents page. Contents clean.

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EINFUHRUNG IN DIE PHYSIK DER MAGNETISCHEN WERKSTOFFE
Written by Karl M. Koch; Werner Jellinghaus.
Stock no. 811140
Published by Franz Deuticke. 1st 1957. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Text in German (Introduction to the Physics of Magnetic Materials). B/w diagrams. VII and 208 pages plus publisher adverts to rear. Text block browned. Dustwrapper edge-browned and slightly edge-chipped.

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THE PARTICLES OF MODERN PHYSICS
Written by J.D. Stranathan.
Stock no. 810936
Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1952. Very good condition.

This book covers the same material as given annually to a class of students at the University of Kansas, a survey course in the field of modern physics. Red cloth, gilt on black titles. B/w photos. B/w diagrams. xvi and 583 pages including index. Name in ink to front endpaper. Corners lightly rubbed. Text block a little grubby & browned. Contents clean.

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INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL OPTICS
Written by John Kellock Robertson.
Stock no. 810851
Published by Chapman & Hall. 2nd 1935. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Second Edition, revised and corrected. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt titles. B/w diagrams. xi and 471 pages including index. Top and tail of spine lightly worn. Foxing to text block and endpapers. Text block lightly browned. Else contents clean. Dustwrapper is browned & foxed, edge-torn with slight loss.

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PHYSICS
Written by E. Nightingale; et al.
Stock no. 809587
Published by John Murray. 1st 1961. Very good condition.

The Science Masters' Book Series 4 Part One. Being Experiements Selected From Nos. 101-42 of The School Science Review. B/w photos & diagrams. xiv and 281 pages including index. Text block browned. A few pages have a tiny nick to lower edge. Contents clean.

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STARS, NEBULAE AND THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM: OBSERVATIONAL PHYSICS AND ASTROPHYSICS
Written by C.R. Kitchin.
Stock no. 587343
Published by Adam Hilger Ltd.. 1st 1987. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A comprehensive survey of the structure, properties and evolution of stars and their interaction with the interstellar medium. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos, diagrams and charts. xiv and 359 pages including index. ISBN: 085274580X. Black dustwrapper is lightly scuffed. Else a clean copy.

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STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS (THE GRADUATE SERIES IN ASTRONOMY)
Written by R.J. Tayler.
Stock no. 587351
Published by Institute Of Physics. 1st 1992. Slightly better than very good condition.

Papers presented in this book are reprinted from Reports on Progress in Physics, an Institute of Physics Journal. A selection of papers of the hightest quality showing the latest progress made in research into the structure and evolution of stars. Edited by Tayler. Glazed black & green boards. xii and 356 pages. ISBN: 0750302003. A nice copy.

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FRONT PAGE PHYSICS: A CENTURY OF PHYSICS IN THE NEWS
Written by A.J. Meadows; M.M. Hancock-Beaulieu.
Stock no. 680566
Published by Institute Of Physics. 1st 1994. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

In this book, ten decades of newspaper article clippings on physical science has been compiled by AJ Meadows and MM Hancock-Beaulieu and placed in context with explanatory commentaries. Large format. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. vii and 221 pages. ISBN: 0852743106. A lovely copy.

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ZUR EINSTEIN'SCHEN RELATIVITATSTHEORIE
Written by Ernst Cassirer.
Stock no. 984029
Published by Bruno Cassirer. 1st 1921. Slightly better than good condition.

A critique of Einstein's theory of relativity. Text in German. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Library binding. 134 pages. Ex-lib with usual stamps and markings. Inscription in ink to top of title page. Heavy underlining throughout, some annotation.

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