Richard Feynman: A Life in Science Tapa dura - 1997

Viking, 1997. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:9780670872459

Hardback. Very Good.

Viking, 1997. 1st. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first printing hardback, 1997, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket rubbed to edges (now protected); boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions - publisher’s ‘damaged’ stamp to upper edge of page-block but, other than the rubbing to dust jacket noted above, there are no other obvious signs of production problems or blemishes; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

London: Viking (Penguin Books), 1997. xvii, + 301pp., unpaginated, candidly-illustrated, b/white halftone plate section, plus intext line-drawn diagrams. Book clean and square. Spine firm, vivid silver title there-on. Leaves clean. Pictorially (subject) illustrated dustjacket lightly edgeworn only. The story of the life, science and personality of one of the world's greatest physicists, Nobel-prize winner, Richard Phillips Feynman. Contents include: Prelims., 14 chapters, Epilogue, Biblio., Index. Richard Phillips Feynman was born in Manhatten in 1918, and died on 15 February, 1988. Book weight approx. 660g. . First Edition.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Viking, London, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: photographs & diagrams. List of plates, acknowledgements, Prologue: "We Love You Dick", bibliography and index. Between pages 142 and 143 there are eight pages of black and white photography. Dark red coloured end pages. Black coloured boards with silver coloured titles to the back strip. Photographic dustwrapper with white, blue and red coloured titles to the front panel and red and white coloured titles to the back strip. A biography of Richard Feynman, winner of a Nobel Prize for his discoveries concerning the behaviour of electrons, which shows that for him, physics – that was why he did it. He saw the world in a unique way, and have the extraordinary gift of being able to provide the vision in terms of formulae and to describe it in such a way that other people could share his understanding. And his work was always directly linked to the real world: once, watching a plate… Leer más

Viking Books, 1997-01. Hardcover. Good.