Sometimes long winded. Good but outdated choice of topics. This is the book I used as an undergraduate. Probably the most widely used of the books. Very clear, but rather dry and pedantic.
Emphasis is on thermodynamics.
See the review in Am. This book has gotten good reviews from students in the past, but is now out of print. An approach to statistical mechanics completely different from the one that I will use. I like this one. David L. Goodstein, States of Matter .