Albert and Leopold Infeld Einstein (28 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. The book is in good condition, with a solid binding and clean pages. The dust jacket is intact but shows minor wear and scuff marks typical of its age. There are no inscriptions, signatures, or library markings, maintaining its original state for collectors. Good, with minor wear and scuffs.…

Trade paperback. Condition: Fine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name sc 171.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: no jacket, paperback. The book is in fair condition, showing noticeable wear on the cover and spine. The edges are scuffed, and there is a price sticker on the front cover. The pages are yellowed with age, but intact. There is no dust jacket, as it is a paperback edition. Despite the wear, the binding remains secure, and the interior pages are free from inscriptions or markings. …

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used-Acceptable. 26th Printing. 302 pp. Book shows heavy use but still a perfectly acceptable reading copy with clean text. Damaged and creased spine and covers. Stains on fore and bottom edges. Jenkins and Page (Design) (illustrator).

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 18th Printing. 302 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Creased spine. Light foxing on page edges.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Twelfth printing. Spine lettering faded; small stain on front flyleaf.

Hardcover. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. Blue cloth, gold design, no dj, edges rubbed, stain to top of first 50 pages, otherwise vg condition.; beew190A19.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Missing. First thus. Paul Zsolnay, 1950; no later printings indicated; 352pp. "mit 75 Textabbildungen und 3 Kunstdrucktafeln". Text entirely in German. VG- hardcover, no dust jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; light wear to edges of navy blue cloth boards, gilt titling remains bright and bold; text very good throughout. No dust jacket. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Later printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hardcover in dust jacket. Later printing (1952, fifteenth printing). Book is fresh and unmarked in tan cloth boards. Dust jacket has wear and chips along all edges and rear flap is held in place by a new Mylar jacket. 8vo. 316 pp. including index. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 222 Pp. True First Edition Of "The Evolution Of Physics", Issued Just Prior To The English Translation. Softcover Issue, Tan Covers Printed In Red. Clean, Unmarked Except For Small Owner's Name On Tile Page, Bookplate Of Dutch Physicist Jan Korringa. Covers With Slight Browning To Spine, Wear With Splits At Top And Bottom Of Front Spine Edge, Hinges Tight, Foxing Spots To Fore Edges Of Page Block And A Few Spots On Edges Of Pages. Drawings (illustrator).…

1.Auflage.. x, 319 Seiten Schutzumschlag etwas berieben und kl. Randeinrisse, innen guter und sauberer Zustand Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 8° , Leinen- Hardcover/Pappeinband mit Schutzumschlag.

Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. 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. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs, Charts and Diagrams (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Octavo. Fourteenth printing. Orange cloth boards with black lettering/illustration on front and spine, pictorial dust jacket. Very slightly cocked, outline on end papers where previous owner bookplate was removed, light toning on edges and pages, edge wear / rubbing on edges of boards and light rubbing on spine, text block just starting to come away from casing at head of spine. Jacket has rubbing, edge wear, and some light chipping. Now in protective mylar. Jacket is not clipped, binding sound, text clean and unmarked. VG/VG+.…

Light Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 222 Pp. True First Edition Of "The Evolution Of Physics", Issued Just Prior To The English Translation. Blue Cloth Printed In Black. Clean, Unmarked. Covers With Slight Sunning To Spine, Points Of Fraying At Two Front Tips, Hinges Tight, 1 1/2" Diameter Ring Mark At Left Fore Edge Of Rear Cover; Light Foxing Spots To Fore Edges Of Page Block But Pages Themselves Clean And Bright Without Spotting. Drawings (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Sixth Printing (July 19, 1938) in gilt-stamped full navy blue cloth, dark blue topstain, no markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright, light scuffing & quiet soil to panels, light toning to page block edges, former owner's small namestamp & blindstamp to front endpaper edge, else Fine early printing of the Einstein-Infeld classic; 8vo; (x) 319pp indexed. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. The Cambridge Library of Modern Science. Reprint. Orig. blue cloth. x, 319 pp. [3] B&W plates. Spine sunned, bruising to corners, chafing to edges, front board slightly bowed. Foxing to top edge of text block. Dust jacket is age toned, foxed, chipped to extremities, perforation to front fore edge and rear joint.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Physik als Abenteuer der Erkenntnis. By Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld. Printed in Leiden by A.W. Sijthoff. 1938 first edition. 222 pp. 10" x 6.5". Softcover. In fair condition, with some scuffing and light losses along edges and corners of covers. Staining to bottom of spine and front cover. Text block generally bound well, with one of two plates detached. Light markings. General age-related toning to pages, along with periodic foxing and wear. Please see photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. A scarce first edition printing. Published in German in the Netherlands, following Einstein's 1933 renunciation of his German citizenship following Hitler's rise to power.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First edition in English. 8vo in navy cloth, spine title in gilt, front board device in gilt. Binding tight and square, tiny touches of rubbing at the corners, spine ends pushed but not rubbed, small very light scrape in the cloth on the front board. P.o. bookplate on the ffep, signature in ink on the title page partially in the subtitle; the text block is otherwise unmarked. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First American edition. 8vo in blue cloth, spine title in gilt. Binding tight and square, glue residue on both pastedowns, p.o. name in ink on the front pastedown, long neat inscription in pencil on the ffep, corners and spine ends pushed and very lightly rubbed.…

thrid printing, 1938. new york: simon and schuster. 5.75 x 8.25 inches. 319 pages. hardcover. bound in dark blue original cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. book condition: very light shelf-wear. some fading to spine. a spot of soiling to rear board. very good++.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Inscribed by Leopold Infeld: "To Rich Thompson with best wishes. Leopold Infeld.".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. A Good or slightly better copy (1938 owner's name) in blue cloth lettered and decorated in gold, in an edge-rubbed Good dust jacket with a damp-stain at the lower spine (visible on the verso only, and not the book). Mild cover wear, clean/unmarked within. The first edition/first printing. (Not ex-library.). Book.…

Blue cloth over boards. First Edition. 5" x 7.5", pp. vi, [3] 4-319. This book was first intended as an opportunity for Einstein to financially aid his friend, Infeld. Though it soon became a joy for him to share physics in near layman's words as if the reader were seated before him in a classroom. "The theory of relativity deduces, from its fundamental assumption, an answer again of a quantitative character: all energy resists change of motion; all energy behaves like matter." (p 207). Very good with a few edge smudges, previousl bookseller inventory number in pencil, otherwise a clean, firm edition G+ protected by mylar which has been taped to inside flaps, thumb print size chip at top edge, tide mark on spine and some edgewear. …

Later printingÂof this classic work, which traces the development of ideas in physics. Octavo, original blue cloth. Boldly signed by both authors on the front free endpaper, "A. Einstein. 53" and "L. Infeld 1958." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. We have never seen another example signed by both authors. Rare and desirable. Upon publication The Saturday Review of Literature praised Evolution of Physics as "masterly Einstein and Infeld's book should do much to spread an understanding and appreciation one of the great dramas in the evolution of human thought.".…

Light Blue Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good + Dust Jacket. First Edition. Viii, 222 Pp. Light Blue Cloth Stamped In Dark Blue. True First Edition Of "The Evolution Of Physics", Issued Just Prior To The English Translation. A Clean, Unmarked Copy, With Signs Of Removal Of A Single Bookplate On The Front Endpaper, No Other Marks. Dust Jacket With Some Wear And Browning, Also With A 1 3/8" X 1 5/8" V-Chip At Top Of Rear Panel Adjacent To The Spine, Very Small Chips At Tips With A 1" X 1/8" Loss Along Top Of Front Flap Fold, And A 1/2" Closed Tear At Top Of Rear Panel With A Few Small Chips And Very Short Closed Tears. A Nice Copy In The Nearly Complete And Scarce Jacket. Drawings (illustrator).…

FIRST EDITION, THIRD PRINTING. Original cloth; interior clean. A newspaper article pasted onto the paste-down plus the flaps from the dust jacket pasted in. Ownership signature of Charles Schuchert (1858-1942), American paleontologist that was the leader in the development of paleogeography on the fly-leaf. First edition, third printing. Intended as an explanation of the totality of Einstein's accomplishments for the layperson, the publication of this extraordinarily successful work was also used in an attempt to find Infeld a university position (he eventually ended up in Canada). According to the preface, "the book is a simple chat between you and us. You may find it boring or interesting, dull or exciting, but our aim will be accomplished if these pages give you some idea of the eternal struggle of the inventive human mind for a fuller understanding of the laws governing physical phenomena." Weil, 201.…