A method development book needed

[turnovg]

I'd like to buy a book concerning chromatography method development (or at least HPLC specific). I've read comments about this one: "Practical HPLC Method Development" by Snyder,Kirkland and Glajch (1997). But it is rather an old one.
My question is: is this book still worth buying/reading or there are better/newer method development books?

Thanks

[GOM]

1997 old?

[Russ]

A Pink Floyd lyric comes to mind:
"And then one day you find ten years have got behind you / No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun"

That song can't be over thirty years old, can it?

[tom jupille]

turnovg, it seems like all the "old-timers" are giving you a rough time!

If it's any consolation, the "Practical HPLC Method Development" book was/is in effect a companion volume to "Introduction to Modern Liquid Chromatography" by Snyder and Kirlkand. The second (current) edition of that book was published in 1979, and it's still in print. And if you search the Forum, you'll find at least a couple of posts in which people refer to Giddings "Dynamics of Chromatography", published in 1968 (and still also in print!).

I think the Snyder, Glajch, and Kirkland book is still the best/most thorough one out there as far as the chromatography goes (by way of full disclosure, I work with one of the authors).

[turnovg]

Thank you GOM and Russ for your replies. I understand what you mean, but being new in chromatography I would prefer a straight forward answer... (If it was so obvious to me, why would I ask?)

Thank you tom jupille. It seems like this book is a must for anyone developing a new method :)

[Russ]

Sorry. Didn't mean to brush you off but the introductory books in my "library" are older than 1997.

[turnovg]

[quote="Russ"]Sorry. Didn't mean to brush you off but the introductory books in my "library" are older than 1997.[/quote]


I see. All I needed to know was if there are newer/better readings. Obviously there aren't :)
/As to the books in my library, I got the "Tietz Textbook of Clinical Chemistry" 1994. Although 13 years old, I absolutely agree with an opinion I've read somewhere in the net: "it is the Bible of clinical chemistry" :)/