Quarto. Burgundy cloth over boards, with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Nudged corners but very tightly bound still. Previous owner's name to front pastedown.`Original book, NOT A COPY. Covers Geology, Geophysical Methods of Prospecting; Rotary System of Drilling; Automatic Feed and Weight Control in Rotary Drilling; Use of Mud Fluid; Coring; Cable Tool System of Drilling; Steel and Wood Derricks; Spudding; Pipe Drilling; Under-Reaming; Fishing for Tools; Straight hole Drilling; Crooked Holes - Their Cause and Effect; Water Supply; Casing Methods; Cementing Casing; Shutting off Water; Use of Packers; Shooting Wells; Completing Wells; The Gas-Air Lift Method of Producing Oil; Pumping Oil Wells - Operating Properties; Derrick Lighting; Strength of Materials. 816 pp. Including Index. "Published annually since 1925 as a convenient reference book for students, writers and others interested. "This is the story of the lighter-than-air ship. So perhaps one should start by making clea