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1924réf. js21524London: Methuen and Co 1924. second edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. a lovely copy of the 2nd edition. the jacket is shelf worn with a little loss at the top of the spine and fraying at the bottom. there is a previous owner's signature and place name. the paper is possibly a little darkened but no real foxing to talk of. square and neat binding. appears very little used. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Methuen and Co hardcover
2004réf. 1393704Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 2004. Collector's Editions. Hardcover. Octavos Four Volumes. Bound in brown genuine leather with bright gilt spine titles and gilt motifs on covers. Gilt text blocks. Paper endpapers silk ribbons. In publisher's shrinkwrap. MA consignment. Shelved above Easton Press. 1393704. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Easton Press hardcover books
1918réf. 5720KBerlin: Verlag der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in commission at Georg Reimer Reichsdruckerei 21st March 1918. Near Fine. Imperial 8vo 26 5: 19 cm. 3 pages numbered 269-272. Letterpress on machine paper in original publisher’s brochure on orange-coloured stock with black title printing. First journal issue in the original printed wrappers of Einstein's early paper on the cosmological implications of general relativity. – Contents: Einstein here criticizes De Sitter's equations for gravitational fields and provides the first proper definition of a space-time singularity. „Einstein never said so explicitly but it seems reasonable to assume that he had in mind that the correct equations should have no solutions at all in the absence of matter. However right after his Einstein's paper »Kosmologische Betrachtungen zur allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie“ mid February 2017 note WoP paper appeared de Sitter did find a solution . Einstein must have been disappointed. In 1918 he looked for ways to rule out the de Sitter solution but soon realized that there is nothing wrong with it.“ Paise Despite Einstein's critique the De Sitter model was the dominant cosmological model until the 1930s at which time Einstein and de Sitter together proposed a ""just right"" cosmological model. The great cosmological debate between Einstein and De Sitter marks the beginning of the modern scientific understanding of the origins of the universe. The Academy's publishing list on the rear cover also announces an offprint of this paper for Reichsmark 0 50. – Condition: Wrappers at margins minimally torn sheet with Einstein's contribution opened and thus cut slighly perforated some pages minimally creased otherwise well preserved partly unopened copy. – Rarity: RBH records 3 copies of this paper at auction 2019 2011 2002 none of them the first separate printing. – Reference: Alicke W. Albert Einstein. An Almost Complete Collection of his Publications and Two Original Manuscripts 91; Boni N.: A bibliographical checklist and index to the published writings of Albert Einstein 108; The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Volume 7 5; Shields M. C.: Bibliography der Schriften Einsteins. In: Schilpp P. A.: Albert Einstein als Philosoph und Naturforscher 117; Weil E.: Albert Einstein. A bibliography of his scientific papers 1901-1930 98; Pais A.: Subtle is the Lord. The Science and Life of Albert Einstein 2005 ed. p. 288. Verlag der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in commission at Georg Reimer [Reichsdruckerei]) unknown
1926réf. 043474London: Methuen & Co. 1926. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Viii 124 Pp. Green Cloth White Spine Lettering. First Printing In Secondary Binding With White Lettering The First Binding Was Lettered In Gilt. Book Used But Still Near Fine Very Slight Rubbing Lettering Complete With Some Wear Small Areas Of Lightening Of Color On Front Cover Darkening To Lower Corner Of Page "V" First Page Of Preface. No Marks. Lacking The Very Scarce Dust Jacket. Methuen & Co. hardcover
1954réf. 042205New York: Crown Publishers 1954. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Vii 377 Pp. Grey Cloth Spine Lettered In Gilt On Maroon Background. First Edition 1954 First Printing No Statement Of Printing Dj Priced $4.00 Publisher's Address As 49 Fourth Avenue On Front And Rear Flaps. Book Fine Spine Edges Crisp. Former Owner's Verified Signature With August 1954 Date No Other Marks. Dj Near Fine Touch Of Rubbing At Corners 1/4" Closed Tear At Bottom Of Front Spine Edge With Associated Rubbing And Another 1/4" Closed Tear At Top Of Rear Panel. Seldom Seen In This Condition Or Better. Crown Publishers hardcover
1938réf. 035775New York: Simon & Schuster 1938. First American Edition 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs Charts and Diagrams. X 319 Pp 1 Pp Ads At Rear. Blue Cloth Gilt Yellow Endpapers. One Of 6000 Copies Of The American First Printing; Publisher's Note On Dj States That The Uk Dutch And American Editions Were Being Issued Simultaneously. Book Is Very Good Gilt Very Bright Cloth Clean Rear Hinge Cracked In Upper 2 3/4" Clean Unmarked Pages; One Quarter Inch Square Area Of Fading At Upper Left Of Spine Panel. With Heraldic Bookplate On Front Pastedown Mostly Under Flap Of Dj. First Issue Dj Priced $2.50 At Bottom Of Rear Flap With Price Much Nearer The Gold Border Than The Bottom Edge; On Later Printings The Price Is Aligned Midway. Dj Clean Spine Lettering Somewhat Browned Light Wear 1/2" Triangular Chip At Top Of Rear Panel Still Present But Loose; Minute Losses At Corners; Browning To Edges Of White Rear Panel But No Browning At All To Front Panel. Simon & Schuster hardcover
1925réf. 333269New York: Société Anonyme Inc 1925. First edition. 6 black and white illustrations 11 pp. 8vo. Side-stapled printed wrappers somewhat soiled. First edition. 6 black and white illustrations 11 pp. 8vo. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of Leger's work by the Société Anonyme from November 16th to the 28th 1925. Includes an introduction by Dreier a creative piece translated from the French of Karl Einstein and "Notations on Plastic Values" by Léger. Scarce OCLC only records a copy at Yale from the papers of Katherine S. Dreier. Collection of the Société Anonyme p. 218 Société Anonyme, Inc unknown
1925réf. 333269New York: Société Anonyme Inc 1925. First edition. 6 black and white illustrations 11 pp. 8vo. Side-stapled printed wrappers somewhat soiled. First edition. 6 black and white illustrations 11 pp. 8vo. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of Leger's work by the Société Anonyme from November 16th to the 28th 1925. Includes an introduction by Dreier a creative piece translated from the French of Karl Einstein and "Notations on Plastic Values" by Léger. Scarce OCLC only records a copy at Yale from the papers of Katherine S. Dreier. Collection of the Société Anonyme p. 218 Société Anonyme, Inc unknown books
1923réf. 32639Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1923. Very Good. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1923. First U.S. Edition. Octavo 18 cm; publisher's gilt-lettered navy cloth; 123pp. Boards bumped at corners spine ends scuffed. Water staining to spine crown bleeding into upper cover minor separation of head of spine material from book block. Last free endsheet creased. Endsheets toned. Endsheets first few pages last few pages and pages 106-112 show water staining at top margin but bulk of text block is clean and bright. Starting slightly after first free endsheet. A Very Good example overall. Collection of four lectures delivered by Einstein at Princeton for the Stafford Little Lectures in 1921. The majority of the lectures are an attempt to reconcile issues with his theory of relativity and defend it as well as give a comprehensive overview of the physics and math involved in the theory in an accessible way. Princeton University Press unknown
1923réf. 32639Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1923. Very Good. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1923. First U.S. Edition. Octavo 18 cm; publisher's gilt-lettered navy cloth; 123pp. Boards bumped at corners spine ends scuffed. Water staining to spine crown bleeding into upper cover minor separation of head of spine material from book block. Last free endsheet creased. Endsheets toned. Endsheets first few pages last few pages and pages 106-112 show water staining at top margin but bulk of text block is clean and bright. Starting slightly after first free endsheet. A Very Good example overall. Collection of four lectures delivered by Einstein at Princeton for the Stafford Little Lectures in 1921. The majority of the lectures are an attempt to reconcile issues with his theory of relativity and defend it as well as give a comprehensive overview of the physics and math involved in the theory in an accessible way. Princeton University Press unknown books
réf. W-008An appreciation of Willie Mays placed in a historical context signed by Mays. Condition of both book and dust jacket very good plus. hardcover
1920réf. 43308Berlin: Springer 1920. 15pp. 221 x 146 mm. Original printed wrappers foxed. Minor internal foxing but very good. First edition cover title does not include the date Einstein delivered his lecture; see Weil. "By royal decree of June 24 1920 a special chair in Leiden University was created for Einstein enabling him to come to that university for short periods of his choosing. On October 27 1920 Einstein began his new position with an inaugural address on aether and relativity theory" Pais Subtle is the Lord p. 313. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 111. Springer unknown
1930réf. 433061930. Offprint from Mathematische Annalen 102 1930. 685-697pp. Original printed self-wrappers. 233 x 157 mm. Very good apart from small split in lower spine. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 171. unknown
1923réf. 433181923. Offprint from Zeitschrift für Physik 16 1923. Single sheet unpaginated. 230 x 155 mm. One corner creased but very good. First edition offprint issue. Einstein's second response to Friedmann's groudbreaking paper on equations governing the expansion of space which made a valuable contribution to Einstein's theory of relativity and admitted the possibility of an expanding universe. Einstein at first believed that Friedmann's reasoning was incorrect then corrected his own objection in the present brief "Notiz" and called Friedmann's results "clarifying." Pais Subtle is the Lord p. 288. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 130. unknown
1950réf. 152705New York: Philosophical Library 1950. First edition of Einstein's collection of social science-related articles addresses and speeches. Octavo original cloth frontispiece of Einstein. very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with bumping and chipping to the rear panel. Out of My Later Years 1950 is the second and final collection of essays assembled by Albert Einstein 1879-1955 the German-born theoretical physicist whose Special and General Theories of Relativity revolutionized modern thought on the nature of space and time and whose Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect confirmed his standing as the most celebrated scientist of the twentieth century. Drawing on Einstein's articles addresses letters and assorted papers across a fifteen-year period from 1934 to 1950 the volume encompasses his personal convictions on religious and humanitarian issues in the wake and aftermath of the Second World War alongside reflections on scientific method the philosophy of physics education and the moral responsibilities of scientists in the atomic age that Einstein's own theories had helped to bring into being. Philosophical Library hardcover
1921réf. 433161921. Offprint from Sitzungsberichte der preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1921. Single sheet pp. 882-883. 256 x 184 mm. Minor marginal tears one corner chipped but very good. First ediiton offprint issue. "Since after 1917 Einstein firmly believed that light-quanta were here to stay it is not surprising that he would look for new ways in which the existence of photons might lead to observable devations from the classical picture. In this he did not succeed. At one point in 1921 he thought he had found a new quantum criterion published in the present paper but it soon turned out to be a false lead" Pais Subtle is the Lord pp. 412-413. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 118. unknown
1921réf. 32433Berlin: Akad. Wiss. Berl. 1921 Berichte 51-53 1921. First Edition. Soft cover. First Edition. Soft cover. ALBERT EINSTEIN. Über eine naheliegende Ergänzung des Fundamentes der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie Berlin 1921 8vo. 26.5 x 18.5 cms Akad. Wiss. Berl. 1921 Berichte 51-53 pp.261-264. Original printed wrappers. NEAR MINT CONDITION. A fine fresh example small pencil mark to upper wrapper of THIS RARE PAPER!! - ."Although Einstein could not accept Weyl's theory as a physical theory he cherished "its courageous mathematical construction" and thought intensively about its conceptual foundation. This becomes clear from his paper "On a complement at hand of the bases of general relativity" of 1921. In it he raised the question whether it would be possible to generate a geometry just from the conformal invariance of Equation without use of the conception "distance" i.e. without using rulers and clocks. He then embarked on conformal invariants and tensors of gauge-weight 0 and gave the one formed from the square of Weyl's conformal curvature tensor" Hubert F.M. Goenner On the History of Unified Field Theories. Reference: Weil N. 116; Schlipp-Shields No.145. Akad. Wiss. Berl., 1921, Berichte 51-53 unknown
1920réf. 43308Berlin: Springer 1920. 15pp. 221 x 146 mm. Original printed wrappers foxed. Minor internal foxing but very good. First edition cover title does not include the date Einstein delivered his lecture; see Weil. "By royal decree of June 24 1920 a special chair in Leiden University was created for Einstein enabling him to come to that university for short periods of his choosing. On October 27 1920 Einstein began his new position with an inaugural address on aether and relativity theory" Pais Subtle is the Lord p. 313. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 111. Springer unknown books
1930réf. 433061930. Offprint from Mathematische Annalen 102 1930. 685-697pp. Original printed self-wrappers. 233 x 157 mm. Very good apart from small split in lower spine. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 171. unknown books
1923réf. 433181923. Offprint from Zeitschrift für Physik 16 1923. Single sheet unpaginated. 230 x 155 mm. One corner creased but very good. First edition offprint issue. Einstein's second response to Friedmann's groudbreaking paper on equations governing the expansion of space which made a valuable contribution to Einstein's theory of relativity and admitted the possibility of an expanding universe. Einstein at first believed that Friedmann's reasoning was incorrect then corrected his own objection in the present brief "Notiz" and called Friedmann's results "clarifying." Pais Subtle is the Lord p. 288. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 130. unknown books
1921réf. 433161921. Offprint from Sitzungsberichte der preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1921. Single sheet pp. 882-883. 256 x 184 mm. Minor marginal tears one corner chipped but very good. First ediiton offprint issue. "Since after 1917 Einstein firmly believed that light-quanta were here to stay it is not surprising that he would look for new ways in which the existence of photons might lead to observable devations from the classical picture. In this he did not succeed. At one point in 1921 he thought he had found a new quantum criterion published in the present paper but it soon turned out to be a false lead" Pais Subtle is the Lord pp. 412-413. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 118. unknown books
1933réf. 45000Paris: Société Anonyme Les Illustrés Français 1933. First edition. Softcover. g- to vg. Large quarto 11 1/2 x 8". 105 3pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers with white lettering to front cover. This scarce issue of "Témoignages de Notre Temps" Witness to our Time is a loving and moving tribute to Jewish life and culture that spans ancient times to the early 1930s with the spectre of Hitler and the early persecutions of Jews in Nazi Germany Hitler became chancellor a few months prior on January 30th. Includes texts by Albert Einstein Dr. Chaïm Weizmann and others along with hundreds of splendid black-and-white photogravures many full page including Helmar Lerski's impressive series on Jews in Palestine. "Témoignages de Notre Temps" was edited by noted French photographer and publisher Lucien Vogel. Wrappers partly creased along edges. Page 5 with four "Spécimen" stamps not affecting lettering. Lower corner of the first 18 pages slightly creased. Lower front corner bumped thus slightly affecting pages throughout. Text in French. Wrappers in overall good- to good interior in good to very good condition. Société Anonyme Les Illustrés Français unknown
1933réf. 45000Paris: Société Anonyme Les Illustrés Français 1933. First edition. Softcover. g- to vg. Large quarto 11 1/2 x 8". 105 3pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers with white lettering to front cover. This scarce issue of "Témoignages de Notre Temps" Witness to our Time is a loving and moving tribute to Jewish life and culture that spans ancient times to the early 1930s with the spectre of Hitler and the early persecutions of Jews in Nazi Germany Hitler became chancellor a few months prior on January 30th. Includes texts by Albert Einstein Dr. Chaïm Weizmann and others along with hundreds of splendid black-and-white photogravures many full page including Helmar Lerski's impressive series on Jews in Palestine. "Témoignages de Notre Temps" was edited by noted French photographer and publisher Lucien Vogel. Wrappers partly creased along edges. Page 5 with four "Spécimen" stamps not affecting lettering. Lower corner of the first 18 pages slightly creased. Lower front corner bumped thus slightly affecting pages throughout. Text in French. Wrappers in overall good- to good interior in good to very good condition. Société Anonyme Les Illustrés Français unknown books
réf. W-012The original version published in 1966 signed by Mays. Condition of book and dust jacket very good. hardcover
réf. W-013The revised edition of the book published in 1972. Signed by Mays. Condition of both book and dust jacket very good. hardcover
