[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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