Evolution Physics Growth Ideas Early by Leopold Einstein Albert Infeld (31 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: G-vg. Blue binding with gold lettering on spine. A few B/W illustrations scattered through the book. Some wear to spine ends and corner tips. Light soiling to binding. Long gift inscription on ffep. Photos of book on request.

Soft Cover. Condition: vg. An Essandess Paperback by S&S. xvi 302pp; contents unmarked; b/w il'd diagrams; light shelf wear to edges of white cover with pink, blue & purple decor & lettering. Paperback.

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

Paper bound, later printing, illustrated, xvi + Pp302. Includes index. Minor rubbing or wear to top corner of front cover else a tight and clean, very good or better copy. 340 grams. We welcome all reasonable offers on our books and also offer local curbside pick-up. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Condition: Very Good / Dust Jacket: Good. 1942. Worn dust jacket with rubbing, small edge chips, and light sticker glue residue on the front panel; jacket remains complete and intact. Book is clean and structurally sound, with a tight, square binding and no cracks. Pages show mild age related discoloration but are free of markings, underlining, folds, or stains. A solid early printing of this classic Einstein/Infeld work, increasingly scarce in collectible condition with dust jacket present. A classic scientific introduction co authored by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld, The Evolution of Physics traces the development of physical thought from early mechanical concepts to the revolutionary ideas of relativity and quantum theory. Written with clarity and accessibility, the authors explain how scientific understanding has transformed over centuries, highlighting the major conceptual breakthroughs that reshaped modern physics. This enduring work remains one of the most approachable explanations of Einstein's intellectual world and the foundations of twentieth mcentury science. A key title for readers interested in the history of physics, Einstein's scientific philosophy, and foundational explanations of relativity and quantum mechanics. …

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: Good. No Jacket. Blue boards faded, spine is tanned. Pages of text are clean, lightly age toned and free of markings. Binding is secure. ***Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes, not envelopes.***.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. THE EVOLUTION OF PHYSICS THE GROWTH OF IDEAS FROM EARLY CONCEPTS TO RELATIVITY AND QUANTA, BY ALBERT EINSTEIN & LEOPOLD INFELD, THE CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY OF MODERN SCIENCE. A light blue, cloth bound, hardback book, with silver coloured titles to the spine and front board, silver emblem of a scholar on front board. Comes with dust jacket that has the odd tear and brown spotting inside jacket. Please see photos. Dust jacket still has its original price of 10s. 6d net. 319 pages all intact and in clean, readable order. Published originally in 1938 this book was reprinted in 1947. The book is in good condition and as its a used book, normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. The quality of the pages inside are of a high standard and look like they have hardly been used or read. This wonderful book is a plain and logical account of the steps through classical physics to relativity and beyond, written for a wide public, but with a full sense of responsibility. It gives Professor Einstein's account of his own great discovery of relativity.…

Condition: Very Good. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1950. 8vo Hardcover. 313pp+index. B/W plates, photos and text figures. Very Good book and Acceptable dust jacket. Owner's name on front pastedown. Dust jacket price clipped. In protective mylar cover. (science, physics, history) Inquire if you need further information.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3RD PRINTING, NO DUST JACKET, CLEAN COPY.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [EINSTEIN, ALBERT; INFELD, LEOPOLD]. The Evolution of Physics: The Growth of Ideas from the Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1938. FIRST EDITION. Cloth-bound; hardcover with dust jacket; octavo (19.5 x 13 x 2.5 cm); pp. x, 319. English text. Bound in publisher's blue covers; supplied in the original dust jacket; diagrams throughout; rear index in double columns. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight, secure, and square. Covers and contents largely very clean. Dust jacket neatly price-clipped, with some light rubbing to the spine tips. Without previous ownership markings. A handsome copy. Notes: An excellent, first edition copy of this seminal popular science book written by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld. It traces the historical progression of physical theories from classical mechanics to modern relativity and quantum mechanics.…

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: Good. No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN . B000MX4IEE Hardback. No Dustjacket Fifth Printing from April 18th, 1938 as stated on the copyright page. Tight sound unmarked copy in Good condition with some slight wear to outer covers. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. 1947 reprint of 1938 text. Excellent condition. Jacket edges are worn. Jacket has Mylar Brodart. Binding is tight. Spine is sunned but legibility is not impacted. Cover edges are worn. Inside is clean and unmarked.

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 with Dust Jacket. Later Printing. Good+ browning to the feeps from a newspaper clipping. light staining to the front board. 13th printing. Binding is tight, the text is clean and unmarked. In a poor dust jacket with half the front panel missing (loc Pinter).

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. NOT an ex-library book. Well read with some wear but still very useable. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

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. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Einstein's famous book, The Evolution of Physics, 1st Edition, no other dates or indications. Some minor shelf wear but overall, the book is in very good condition. No Jacket. 313 pgs.

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++.

Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition in Second Issue Binding (bound in limp boards with no front end-paper as published in this Issue and stamped in SILVER rather than Gold). 319 pp., 3 plates and numerous black & white illustrations in the text, faint wear to cover edges else veruy good in a fragmentary dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 1952 at title page; stated fifteenth printing at copyright. Green buckram (cloth) boards, white cover design of curving field matrix, spine titles, light shelf wear. Pages near fine; no writing. Toning at back endpaper, pastedown. Bind fine; hinges intact. Original navy wrapper with white stylized titles, moderate edge wear, rub, chip; protected in new clear sleeve. First published in 1938, this summary compilation was conceived by Einstein and composed by Leopold Infeld while working closely with the theorist. Clear and concise explanations of the development of theories explaining physical phenomena. Presents the growth of ideas from early concepts to relativity and quanta. Illustrated with demonstrative drawings throughout. Written, apparently more by Infeld than Einstein, this volume is exceedingly proper and therefore delightful, as well as thorough. A beautiful book, very clear and precise, and should be read by all armchair physicists with a serious desire to grasp relativity theory, as well as the importance of quantum theory. Accessible three-page index. Manufactured in the United States of America by the Haddon Craftsman, Scranton, Pa. 316 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. …

Condition: Fair. London: Cambridge University Press, 1938. Later issue. Sm 8vo hardcover. Light blue cloth with silver ornamentatation to front board and spine. 319pp. Illustrations. Fair book. No dust jacket. Spine faded. Boards slightly dampstained. Front endpage removed. Spine starting to crack at page 129. Bottom corner of page 253torn off. Bookseller's stamp on rear endpage. In polypropylene bag. (Physics, Relativity, Quantum Theory) Inquire if you need further information.…

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.…

First edition of this classic work, which traces the development of ideas in physics. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Albert Einstein on the half-title page, "To Dr. Montrell Albert Einstein Princeton 1943." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. On 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.".…

First edition of this classic work, which traces the development of ideas in physics. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the second free endpaper, "For David Stern Albert Einstein 1938." Fine in a near dust jacket with a few small closed tears. Trade editions signed by Einstein are scarce. 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.".…

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.".…