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Graph Theory (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)

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If you want a look at the contents, the author also offers a full, free electronic edition of this book from his website. Seach for "Graph Theory Diestel" and his pages will come up. You are not able to print the free electronic edition, but you can save it for offline reading.

I love this book. I purchased the print version after reading the electronic edition.

This is an excellent book, but if you are looking for an introductory book with examples you should look elsewhere, like the book by Gary Chartrand:
Introductory Graph Theory.
The definitions are very concise and not always visual, so you might have to take a pencil and paper as you go through this book and try to
draw a picture corresponding to what has been written.
Still, there is a lot of material here, thanks to the concision, and for a graduate student it's hard to think of a better introduction.

Not a book that you can really judge well on one reading:
study is necessary.
The author presents the diagrams and proofs well.
He covers the main topics in graph theory:
"Matching,"
"Connectivity,"
"Planar Graphs,"
"Coloring,"
"Flows
"Ramsey Theory for Graphs,"
"Hamilton Cycles,"
"Random Graphs,"
"Minors, Trees and Well-Quasi-Ordering."
and Infinite graphs.
It is a text for graduate school topology in which the theory of graphs
is covered in detail.
I could wish for more on Ramsey theory,
but the author's are the only graph diagrams in that area that I've found.

I bought this book because my Graph Theory teacher recommended us to read it. It is very complete and it explains very well the subject.