[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Limited Albert Einstein

Charles Agvent agvent at erols.com
Thu Mar 22 11:09:59 EDT 2007


EINSTEIN, Albert (Schilpp, Paul A. [editor]) ALBERT EINSTEIN: 
PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST
Library Living Philosophers Evanston, IL 1949 First Edition. Volume VII 
of the Library of Living Philosophers in publisher's brown leather-like 
cloth with gilt lettering. This is Copy #616 of 760 SIGNED by the author 
and subject with his scarcer full signature and the publication date 
added after his name in his hand. Contents include essays by 25 leading 
scientists such as Max Born and Niels Bohr, Einstein's reply to their 
essays, a bibliography of Einstein's works, and a 47-page revealing 
autobiography by Einstein printed in both German and English on facing 
pages. Illustrated with several photographs, a facsimile of a page of 
Einstein manuscript, and diagrams. An increasingly scarce book, this 
copy is largely unopened. A number of pages have a mostly faint 
dampstain along the outer margins, visible really only on the title page 
and just a handfulof other pages. The page with the signature shows 
hardly any effect. Still Near Fine, lacking the scarce slipcase.  $6500
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