Linus Pauling was a research professor of physical and biological sciences at the Center for the Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California. ('College Chemistry') He is most well-known for receiving both the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. (Wikipedia)

Octavo; xxiv, 832 pages. In Very Good condition, lacking the issued dust jacket. Fully bound in black cloth with silver gilt lettering. Minor shelf wear. Bumping to head and tail of spine. Finger-staining to text block. Signed flat by Pauling on half-title page. CF consignment. Shelved in Case 10.