Year: 1959Publisher: W.H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco and LondonEdition: 1stLanguage: ENPages: 630Condition: VGCover condition: GBinding: HCSeries: A Series of Books in GeologyFt: 24*16,5*3,3 cm. 1350 gr.
- This first edition was highly regarded at the time for modernizing the field's approach, organizing minerals based on crystal chemical principles rather than traditional descriptive methods alone. It includes descriptions of mineral groups, key concepts in crystallography and chemistry, and determination tables.- Illustrated: drawings by Roger Hayward. Photos in b/w.