Einstein: His Life and Times ** SIGNED **
Language: English
Published by Alfred A Knopf, Inc., New York, 1947
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Theoria Books, Andover, MA, U.S.A.Theoria Books
AbeBooks seller since June 12, 2016
Condition: Used - Near fine
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298 pp., xi. Stated: "First Edition" with NAP. 19 glossy black and white photo-illustrations interspersed. Contents in 12 Chapters: I. "Einstein's Youth and Training"; II. " Conceptions of the Physical World before Einstein"; III. "Beginning of a New Era in Physics"; IV. "Einstein at Prague"; V. "Einstein at Berlin"; VI. "The General Theory of Relativity"; VII. "Einstein as a Public Figure"; VIII. "Travels through Europe, America, and Asia"; IX. "Development of Atomic Physics"; X. Political Turmoil in Germany"; XI. "Einstein's Theories as Political Weapons and Targets"; XII. "Einstein in the United States"; Index follows p. 298 and is separately numbered, pp. i-xii. Red cloth with brilliant gilt on spine and front cover; top edge looks once stained, perhaps blue or brown; deckled fore-edge; small 1" x 1/2" bookseller sticker at bottom left ffep: "The Personal / Book Shop / Boston". Dustwrapper not price-clipped ($4.50) with large front cover sepia-toned, black and white photo-portrait of Einstein, below a yellow title band across top front cover; author name lettering in smaller white letters, superimposed at foot of photo-portrait; right front over edge worn; corners worn; spine ends worn (small chips and tears; 5/8" jagged tear down top edge rear cover at 1 1/2" away from top left spine corner: Now in Brodart mylar which forgives flaws graciously (edge flaws cited now backed by Archival tape). Book itself: Strong binding (NO cracks); corners still sharp (NO bumps or curls); teeniest hint of wear at tips of spine and cover corners (nugatory). INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on ffep to "Marsha Henderson", "as remembrance of her collaboration", Signed, dated "Feb. 20, 1947". From Wikipedia: "Philipp Frank (March 20, 1884, Vienna, Austria-Hungary July 21, 1966, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) was a physicist, mathematician and also a philosopher during the first half of the 20th century. He was a logical-positivist, and a member of the Vienna Circle. He was influenced by Mach and was one of the Machists criticised by Lenin in Materialism and Empirio-criticism. . . he studied physics at the University of Vienna and graduated in 1907 with a thesis in theoretical physics under the supervision of Ludwig Boltzmann. Albert Einstein recommended him as his successor for a professorship at the German Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague, a position which he held from 1912 until 1938. . . Frank, who was Jewish, fled to the United States after the German occupation of Prague. Frank became a lecturer on physics and mathematics at Harvard University. In 1947 he founded the Institute for the Unity of Science as part of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). This arose after Howard Mumford Jones (then president of the AAAS) had issued a call to overcome the fractionalization of knowledge, which he felt the AAAS well suited to address. The institute held regular meetings attracting a broad range of participants. Quine regarded the organisation as a 'Vienna Circle in exile'." Announcement of Einstein's death in the Boston Evening Globe (April 18, 1955) laid in (continued on p. 33, but that portion not included in the saved article), which has caused offsetting to ffep and strip down inside front cover hinge: "EINSTEIN DEAD Scientist, 76, Entered Hospital Friday"; a black and white photo-portrait of Philipp Frank, ostensibly, clipped from an article of similar vintage (not identified, but would appear to be from a newsprint publication like the New York Review of Books, apparently with a review of a book on Freud on the backside of the clipped photo-portrait of Frank) also laid in.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Einstein: His Life and Times ** SIGNED **
- Author
- Frank, Philipp / Translated by George Rosen from a German manuscript / Edited by Shuichi Kusaka
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf, Inc., New York
- Publication year
- 1947
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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