217 page hard cover book of the first volume of three volume series entitled Lectures In Abstract Algebra by Nathan Jacobson, published first in 1951 by D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. and again in September 1961 for this edition.
Perhaps this might not be a issue in later editions, but mine was the reprint of first edition with had much outdated notations which were not explained at all (readers were directed to some book in French to refer for that purpose) which made the book unreadable for me.