1941 Modern Plastics Catalog Exhaustive Comprehensive 1st Edition Hb Scarce

  
1st edition hardcover - Embossed cloth cover with yellow boards - brown and gold titling to spine and front - 476pp. The size is about 9" x 12" x 1 1/2. It's a heavy book about 5 1/2 pounds.

This is an amazing catalog. It is It is an exhaustive informative book with a tremendous amount of information and pictures about the preeminent position plastics occupy among the other industrial raw materials of the nation. Amazing color and monochromatic pictures. The topics covered are Plastics Engineering, Materials, Molding and Fabricating, Machinery and Equipment, Laminates, Plastic Coatings, Synthetic Fibers, Bibliography and Nomenclature, and Directory. The index of Advertisers is really something if you want to get a peek into the products made during the 1940's.

The Advertisers all have full page and multi page advertisements that are really interesting and it's across all different industries. Each section of the catalog has a tab that separates that section from the next. There is a lot of very technical information including multiple charts that fold out. Plastics properties Chart, Solvents Chart, and Plasticizers Chart.

The 1941 catalog is in very good condition with soiling, and previous owner name to ffep.