Out-of-Print Microbiology

Abstract

Copies of Penicillin, Its Practical Application, edited by Sir Alexander Fleming and published by Butterworth in 1946, sell for surprisingly high prices at the upper end of the second-hand book trade. Yet those written by Selman Waksman, from Principles of Soil Microbiology (Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1927) to The Actinomycetes (Chronica Botanica, 1950), hold very little value nowadays.