Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition in English. Important monograph, which called into question the membrane theory of cell permeability, revealing considerable Soviet research on the subject. First published in Russian in 1956, here in its first English edition (first printing), revised & supplemented from the Russian; hardcover in jacket, as pictured; volume 26 of the publisher's International Series of Monographs in Pure and Applied Biology, Modern Trends in Physiological Sciences Division. Light wear to book; price-clipped jacket shows light rubbing, minor edgewear, light creasing. Text clean, no names or marks; xiv, 549 pages; many references, indexes. Size: Octavo.