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    Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. No jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1955. This is the 1955 hardcover first edition -- not a cheaply-made modern reprint. Very Good condition. NOT a library discard. Square and tight. Corners are NOT bumped. Hinges are perfect. NO owner's name. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp and creamy white. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Illustrated with diagrams in the text and two plates. Includes technical papers as well as a few historical papers. Arranged into 3 parts: The Microbe as a Living System; Metabolism of Microorganisms; Microorganisms and Higher Forms of Life. Among 16 contributors are H. A. Barker, Bernard D. Davis, Harry Eagle, Jackson W. Forster, Michael Heidelberger, Frank L. Horsfall, Lewis Webster Jones, Albert J. Kluyver, Joshua Lederberg, Andre Lwoff, Robert L. Starkey, Perry Wilson, etc. The editor, the American microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman (1888-1973) was awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in medicine for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis. Bound in the original rust-colored cloth, stamped in black and shiny gold on the spine and front cover. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. 8vo. x, 220pp.

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    Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. No jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1955. This is the 1955 hardcover first edition -- not a cheaply-made modern reprint. Near Fine condition. NOT a library discard. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. Hinges are perfect. NO owner's name. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp and creamy white. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Illustrated with diagrams in the text and two plates. Includes technical papers as well as a few historical papers. Arranged into 3 parts: The Microbe as a Living System; Metabolism of Microorganisms; Microorganisms and Higher Forms of Life. Among 16 contributors are H. A. Barker, Bernard D. Davis, Harry Eagle, Jackson W. Forster, Michael Heidelberger, Frank L. Horsfall, Lewis Webster Jones, Albert J. Kluyver, Joshua Lederberg, Andre Lwoff, Robert L. Starkey, Perry Wilson, etc. The editor, the American microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman (1888-1973) was awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in medicine for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis. Bound in the original rust-colored cloth, stamped in black and shiny gold on the spine and front cover. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/No jacket. 8vo. x, 220pp.