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Health Effects of Asbestos and of Some Other Minerals and Fibres
A Compendium of References and Abstracts of the Worlds' Literature 1906-1986
by Premsyl V. Pelnar, M.D.
Edited by George H. Scherr, Ph.D.
Copyright 1988 by Chem-Orbital

3 Volume Set, 2413 pages!
Total weight: Over 12 pounds.

This set contains essentially a bibliography of documents, which include articles and books, such as: medical books, laws, governmental standards and regulations, instructions for safe work practices, scientific research articles.  These articles and books (referred to as documents) have been studied by the authors and code numbers represent their content (subject matter)... 

Subjects include kinds of asbestos, form of study, countries where study was done, pathological data, complications other than tumor, tumors, other lung diseases, environmental data, etc.  Examples of some of the subjects: Dust Counts, Dust Control, Metals acting with asbestos, radiological findings, cancer of the lung, cancer elsewhere, mesothelioma, silicosis, chrysotile, crocidolite, amosite, tremolite, talc, mining and milling asbestos, textile (asbestos) industry, United States of America, etc.  

Documents can be looked up by author, subject, year of publication, or country of study.

Some documents have a brief summary of their content.

Please see pictures below for example pages.

CONDITION:
  Pages surfaces are mostly clean, however, these books have bumps, some marks to page edges and Volume 1 has a broken binding. By broken, I mean that it is split at one place, but binding is still holding all pages together ok.  Please see below pictures for an idea of the wear that these books have.
Health Effects of Asbestos & of Some
Other Minerals & Fibres (3 Volumes)
$375