Technical Service Section Explosives Product (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Good dust jacket. Wyeth, Andrew N. (endpaper art) (illustrator). Wilmington, DE: Dupont, 1977. Near Fine condition in a Good dust jacket. Previous owner's ink stamp (USDOE) on the bottom edge of the text block. Pages are otherwise fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked -- apparently seldom if ever read. Endpapers, front and rear, feaure a full color double page painting of the Birkenhead Mills by Andrew N. Wyeth. The painting was commissioned by DuPont to commenorate their 175th anniversary. This 1977 edition is special because it is essentially all new, the first to include "all the latest information on the use of [Tovex] water gel explosives." Dynamite is still covered by a chapter, but "the bulk of the information is based on the use of water gels." -- per the dust jacket. Prepared by the Technical Service Section, Explosives Product Division, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (Inc.). Bound in the original silver-stamped green cloth. Complete with dust jacket. 175th Anniversary Edition, Thumb indexed. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Good dust jacket. Illus. by Wyeth, Andrew N. (endpaper art). (ix), 494pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. 175th Anniversary Edition, Thumb indexed.