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AJ Scruffles, Leigh On Sea, ESSEX, United Kingdom
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First edition of Shockley's influential volume on the physics of semi-conductors and how it relates to the creation and use of transistors - the first successfully demonstrated variant having been invented by Shockley and his team at Bell labs in 1947, for which they won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956. EX-Technical library with stamps and tags from the STC labs in Harlow, where fiber-optic telecommunications were pioneered and which would later see Charles Kao win a Nobel Prize. Rubbing to edges. Light marking to cover. Mild foxing to fore-edge. Some marking to appendices. Contents otherwise clean and tight. Good. Seller Inventory # 007093
Title: Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors: With ...
Publisher: D. Van Nostrand Co., New York
Publication Date: 1950
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Fourth Printing. Small name stamp on endpaper & edges; cloth faded on spine & edges; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 558 pages. Seller Inventory # 38098
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Missing. 5th Printing. 1955; Toronto; 5th Printing; no dust jacket; blue cloth covered boards with gold titles; covers contain rubbing and shelf wear; covers contain sun damage with color fading on edges; Previous owner's name on ffep; previous owner's notations in pen in the margins of some pages; interior contains very light foxing; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; 558 pages. Seller Inventory # SKU1174726
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Cloth Over Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Seventh Printing. This volume was a Nobel prize winner, the first book on semiconductors. It is ex-lib from tthe Whitney Library, but the only markings are a red stamp on the foredge, a "Released from" stamp on the FFE, and a pencilled catalog number and library notations on the dedication page. Interior pages, illutstrated with black and white drawings and diagrams, are slightly toned, but unmarked. Boards are a little bowed, but binding is solid and book is square with some rubbing on boards and slight wear at head and foot of spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bell Telephone Laboratories Se. Seller Inventory # 128726
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB ), Topsfield, MA, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. Later Printing. [2], [2-frontis], iii-xxiii, [1-blank], [1]-558 pages, followed by blank leaf and appendix B which was printed on both sides of the rear flyleaf plus the rear pastedown (3 pages total). 8vo. Blue cloth with black spine labeling. Binding sound, with none of the usual spine darkening so common on this title. Previous owner's name ("Douglas Ritchie 1970") on the front pastedown. Rubbing to the dust jacket spine panel and some shallow creasing to the head/tail spine and edges. While this is a later printing, this title has become increasingly difficult to find in a presentable dust jacket. Cloth. The ninth printing, September 1966. The first printing was November 1950. The dust jacket rear panel shows Rowe's book "Signals and Noise in Communication Systems" as the last title (published in 1966). An important book, often reprinted, authored by Shockley who, with Bardeen and Brattain, co-invented the transistor and were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect". Seller Inventory # 29427
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 0.51. Seller Inventory # 0442075936-2-3
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Condition: Fair. Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and pages, may be ex-library. 0.51. Seller Inventory # 353-0442075936-acp
Quantity: 1 available