W Perrett Translator (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 1st Edition. First English language edition, first printing.[4], 56, [4], 8pp, with occasional small illustrations in text. Blue cloth-covered boards with black lettering and rules on upper panel, black lettering to spine. Printed on heavy stock paper. Slim 12mo. Cloth is a little worn, faded around edges and over spine, gently rubbed on edges in places and on corners and spine ends. Upper text block edge dust darkened, remaining edges very slightly toned. Some spotting and browning on first and last few pages, lightly so throughout. Previous owner's name neatly inked on front paste down; three instances of inked marginal notes on pp 13, 18 and 19. Neat, clean and tightly bound. First English language edition of Einstein's Spotlights on Relativity (following Relativity: The Special & the General Theory - A Popular Exposition, 1920), containing two of his addresses relating to the theory of relativity: (i) Ether and Relativity and (ii) Geometry and Experience.…

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First British edition, first printing. viii, 216, [8, ads] pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in blind on front board and in gilt on spine; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with fading, light wear and soiling to covers. Evidence of bookplate removal to front pastedown, offsetting to free endpapers, rear hinge starting. Contents lightly toned with foxing to first and last few pages and textblock edges. An influential collection of eleven papers on relativity. Seven are authored by Einstein, two by Henrik Lorentz, and one each by Hermann Minkowski and Hermann Weyl. The first edition of this translation of Das Relativitaetsprinzip, taken from the fourth German edition.…