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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 250pps. A very clean, unread copy with smooth spine, no reading creases, and tight binding. Collectible copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition By This Publisher. 192 pages. Selections from the Nation's best wits. >>Minor edge creasing to covers. Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. James Trembath GGA (Good Girl Painted Cover) (illustrator). Book.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 426 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.96 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Pp. 10-33. Stapled as issued. Very Good. Authors's offprint. Later version, in smaller format, with white wrappers. The original version of the offprint is in a larger format. At some later date--I do not know when--a smaller format, with white wrappers, was produced. The smaller format is definitely NOT the original offprint, but it is also definitely a version originating with Linus Pauling, and not a photocopy produced by an individual for their own use. These two papers were part of a session at the Royal Society, May 1, 1952, entitled "A Discussion on the Structure of Proteins". Linus Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 "for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances.".…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 74 pages. Articles: The Facts About Business - an encouraging message from John W. Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury; Governor Going Places - GovernorAlfred Eastlack Driscoll of New Jersey - article with nice photos; Terror in the Streets - Let's put police back on the beat; The Stars are Dave's Dish - Dave Chasen provides Hollywood feasts to the rich and famous - article with nice colour photo including Peter Lawford and Don Ameche; Animals Own Me; Dartmouth's Streamlined Mr. Chips - Professor Harry Wellman of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration; Our Kids with Crippled Mouths - a pathetic host of American children need major orthodontic work; It's No Love Game. Fiction: The Girls of Laurel Court; Use no Hooks; The Iron Butterfly (part 3 of 4); Mr. Dilsey's Magic Lure; The Combination; Eyewitnes. Nice vintage ads include: Ansco film, Zenith televisions, Ford cars; Pabst Blue Ribbon beer - featuring colour photo of actor Charles Laughton; Good Year tires (centerfold); Nesbitt's soda; Chevrolet - great two-page color ad; Budweiser; Douglas Super DC-3; Goebel beer; Camel cigarettes - great back cover ad featuring photo of Cole Porter plus Gene Bearden, Gladys Swarthout, Jeanne Wilson, Gene Sarazen, Sylvia MacNeill and "Dusty" Campbell. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's, The National Weekly Magazine, 16 July, 1949 John W. Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury; Governor Going Places - GovernorAlfred Eastlack Driscoll of New Jersey - article with nice photos; Terror in the Streets - Let's put police back on the beat. Illustrated by Mays, Maxwell (cover art); Hill, Bern; Northcross, John;Burns, Paul C.; Fleischmann, Glen; Shaw, David; Bugg, Robert; Mink David;Darlinng, Gilbert; Fischetti, John; (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8 pp, with 4 text figures. Stapled as issued. Crease in each blank, upper margin, else Very Good. First Edition. Author's offprint. "We are indebted to Prof. W. T. Astbury, Dr. I. MacArthur, Mr. F. H. C. Crick, and other workers in the field of the structure of proteins for having discussed with us the question of the structure of [alpha]-keratin. . . ." The first eight publications by Linus Pauling and Robert Corey on the alpha helix and pleated sheets of polypeptide chains appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in April and May 1951. Linus Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 "for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances.".…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Pp. 247-252 with 3 text figures, and pp. 253-256 with 2 text figures. Original wrappers. Stapled as issued. Heavy creases in wrappers and text leaves. Good. First Edition. These two papers, which appeared one after the other in the same issue of the journal, were issued in a single offprint. The first eight publications by Linus Pauling and Robert Corey on the alpha helix and pleated sheets of polypeptide chains appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in April and May 1951. Linus Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 "for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances.". …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pp. 729-740 with 7 text figures, and pp. 86-93 with 4 text figures. Original wrappers. Stapled as issued. Light creases in wrappers and text leaves. Red pencil name of former owner (J. Waser) on front wrapper. Very Good. First Edition. These two papers were issued in a single offprint. The first eight publications by Linus Pauling and Robert Corey on the alpha helix and pleated sheets of polypeptide chains appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in April and May 1951. The two papers in this offprint were published not long after. Linus Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 "for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances." NOTE about former owner Jurg Waser: "Born in 1916 in Zürich, Switzerland, Dr. Waser attended the University of Zürich and came to the United States in 1939 intending to spend a year on a graduate student exchange program at Caltech. The outbreak of war kept him in Pasadena, where he completed a Ph.D. in chemistry with Linus Pauling in 1944.".…

First edition. THE STRUCTURE OF PROTEINS - NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY 1954. First edition, very rare offprints, signed by Pauling. "In April of 1951, readers who turned the pages of PNAS were treated to a surprise: seven studies from the same authors, published back-to-back, all on the subject of protein structure . Grouping the papers together for maximum attention, authors Linus Pauling and Robert Corey must have realized the bombshell they had dropped on the scientific world. Knowledge of the inner workings of proteins - molecules often referred to as the building blocks of life - would be the key to understanding biology at the molecular level" (Christen Brownlee, The Protein Papers, 2012). "Protein research was one of the major areas of study in x-ray crystallography and biochemistry, with British x-ray crystallographers such as John Desmond Bernal, Dorothy Hodgkin, and William Astbury among the pioneers in the field. While visiting Oxford in 1948 and confined with the flu, Pauling started building protein models, constructing a three-dimensional model of keratin as a spiral molecular structure using paper, ruler, and pencil to sketch out a chain of amino acids, and drawing the atomic-bond lengths and angles from memory. He realized, however, that an x-ray pattern produced from his model would not match the x-ray patterns that Astbury had published. After his return to Caltech, Pauling set to work with Herman Branson and Robert Corey to come up with an accurate model. In 1950 he and Corey published two structures for keratin, using hydrogen bonding for a coiled peptide chain. Their ?-helix model had 3.7 amino acid residues per turn and called for a diffraction pattern showing about 5.4 angstroms between each turn, not quite on target with Astbury's value of 5.1 angstroms. The fiber manufacturing firm of Courtaulds in London soon confirmed the ?-helix in its commercial synthesis of artificial fiber similar to natural keratin, as did Perutz in later studies of natural keratin in the form of horsehair. In May 1951 Pauling and his coworkers published seven papers on protein structures in one issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), including the ?-helix, parallel and antiparallel pleated sheets, and a winding three-helix model for the protein collagen" (DSB). "A decade before the structures of entire proteins were first revealed by x-ray crystallography, Linus Pauling and Robert Corey of the California Institute of Technology deduced the two main structural features of proteins: the ?-helix and ?-sheet, now known to form the backbones of tens of thousands of proteins. Their deductions, triumphs in building models of large molecules based on features of smaller molecules, were published in a series of eight articles, communicated to PNAS in February and March 1951. Their work had a significance for proteins comparable to that 2 years later of the Watson-Crick paper for DNA, which adopted the Pauling-Corey model-building approach" (Eisenberg). "New Scientist magazine once characterized Pauling as one of 'the 20 greatest scientists of all time, on a par with Newton, Darwin, and Einstein.' Pauling has also been called one of the two greatest scientists of the 20th century (the other being Einstein) and the greatest chemist since Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, the 18th-century founder of modern chemistry" (American Chemical Society). Pauling is the only person in history to win two unshared Nobel Prizes - the 1954 chemistry prize "for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances", and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. This offprint was issued first in brown printed wrappers and somewhat later, presumably because the supply of these was exhausted, in cheaper white printed wrappers as here. The text is identical in both. "As Pauling was learning more and more about the structures of relatively simple molecules, in the mid-1930s, it occurred to him that he might as well make an attempt to learn about larger systems. He was aware of the importance of biopolymers and that the understanding of their structures might be a step toward understanding biological processes. Proteins were an obvious choice, because they were the most important biopolymers. At that time nucleic acids were already known, and their building blocks, the nucleotides, had been identified, but the nucleic acids were not considered to be of great significance. There was a hypothesis by Phoebus Levene about the tetranucleotide structure that was based on an erroneous observation that the four nucleotides in nucleic acid were present in equal amounts. Hence, the nucleic acids were thought to be dull, uninteresting molecules, not capable of carrying any great amount of information. "When Pauling started thinking about protein structures, the first protein to attract his attention was hemoglobin, which is the vehicle of carrying oxygen in our organism. Incidentally, the British group engaged in protein structure studies had also selected hemoglobin for their target; their choice was independent of Pauling's interest. At the end of the 1920s, Gilbert Adair in Cambridge, UK, showed that the hemoglobin molecule consists of four units each with an iron atom, and each iron could bind an oxygen atom. Pauling formulated a theory about the oxygen uptake of hemoglobin and the structural features of this molecule related to its function of disposing of and taking up oxygen. "His interest in protein structures was further whetted when a visiting scientist and protein specialist, Alfred Mirsky of the Rockefeller Institute, spent the academic year 1935-1936 in his laboratory. They jointly studied the phenomenon of denaturation of proteins by heat or chemical substances and formulated a theory about it. In this theory, they described the native protein as having a regularly folded structure in which hydrogen bonds provided the stability of the structure. Hydrog. Signed.…

1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF LINUS PAULING AND ROBERT COREY'S FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF THEIR SEMINAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY FINDINGS REGARDING THE THEORETICAL ALPHA AND GAMMA HELIXES, TWO CONFIGURATIONS OF THE ARRANGEMENT OF ATOMS IN PROTEINS. The authors "must have realized the bombshell they had dropped on the scientific world. Knowledge of the inner workings of proteins -- molecules often referred to as the building blocks of life -- would be the key to understanding biology at the molecular level" (Brownlee in PNAS Website). A full decade before x-ray crystallography first revealed the structures of proteins, Pauling and Corey deduced their main structural features: the alpha and the gamma helix. Their work had the same significance for proteins as the Watson and Crick papers, published two years later, had for the structure of DNA. In the short letter that published in this volume, the two scientists clearly state "that they had come up with two spiral models; they mention their hydrogen bonding scheme and assert that there was evidence that the proposed structures were present in a variety of proteins. They hinted at a molecular model for silk. They said nothing about the discrepancy between their models and the x-ray data. They ended with the promise that 'a detailed account of this work will be published soon'" (Special Collections and Archive Research, Oregon State). "Pauling and Corey's research, now over a half-century old, guides today's biotechnology revolution and the search for hundreds of disease cures -- drugs that may someday conquer Alzheimer's disease, cystic fibrosis, Mad Cow disease and many forms of cancer" (Brownlee). Linus Paulingwon the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances' (Nobel Prize Committee). CONDITION & DETAILS: Easton: American Chemical Society. Full volume. Quarto (10.25 x 7.5 inches; 256 x 188mm). Bound in maroon cloth with decorative paper boards. Gilt-lettered, green morocco spine label. Minor rubbing and scuffing at the edges. Tiny spot on spine label. Tightly and very solidly bound. Bright and clean throughout. Very good condition.…

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