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Price: US$38.57 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xi, 246p. ; 22cm. Subjects: Einstein, Albert (1879-1955). Relativity (Physics). 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$52.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xi, 246p. ; 22cm. Subjects: Einstein, Albert (1879-1955). Relativity (Physics). 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$174.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 13th edition from 1944
Seller: Basement Seller 101, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Size: 12mo - over 6.75 - 7.75" tall. xvi + 138pp. Front hinge cracked. Spine cocked and faded. Endpapers browned, text block clean. Previous owner's signature in pencil. Edges foxed and browned. Covers slightly marked. Bump to top edge of both boards. Translated by Robert W. Lawson. Contains frontispiece. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science & Technology; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 52096.
Seller: Dreadnought Books, Bristol, United Kingdom
Price: US$331.26 + shipping
Description: Octavo, original cloth boards, title blindstamped front board and in gilt on spine, frontis portrait plate of Einstein, diagrams, pp xiii, 138, 8 pp publisher's ads. Small nick to rear hinge between rear free and rear fixed endpaper. Free endpapers tanned. Top of spine bumped, contents clean. Very good condition. Early UK printing (1921) of Einstein's theory of relativity, which transformed physics. First published in 1920, this 'Special and General Theory' remains the most popular of his titles. This fourth edition published in the same year Albert Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Seller: Muir Books -Robert Muir Old & Rare Books - ANZAAB/ILAB, PERTH, WA, Australia
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Description: Hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covered boards, oxidised blocked and lettered gilt back, blind titles to the front. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Fourth edition of the scientist's ground breaking work, copyright page states 'This translation was first published in 1920'. Contains monochrome frontispiece of the author, (xiii)-3, 188 pp + 8 page publishers catalogue with five diagrams. Spine slightly sun faded, off-setting to the end papers and in Very Good clean and bright condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. PHYSICS
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Einstein, Albert. Relativity The Special & The General Theory. METHUEN & CO., LONDON, 1921.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: authorised translation by Robert W. Lawson, D.Sc; with five diagrams and a portrait of the author; popular exposition; frontispiece; red cloth boards some fading;foxing and discoloration; newspaper clipping on the suject tipped in;general wear and rubbed cover. No bookplate. Tight binding. DATE PUBLISHED: 1921 EDITION: Second edition 140
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.