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Price: US$90.18 + shipping
Description: First UK edition, translated by GB Jeffery and W Perrett. 56pp; 2 figures. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering. No inscriptions. Spine faded. Variable amounts of foxing throughout. Overall Good condition (tight and complete) but not VG condition. No dustwrapper.
Seller: Grampian Books PBFA, Est. 1990, ELLON, ABDN, United Kingdom
Price: US$194.67 + shipping
Description: sm. in-8vo, 2 leaves (halftitle & titlepage) + 56 p. + 2 leaves + 8 p. publicity on diff. paper, printed on heavy paper, slightly yellowed, Ex-Libris ?Edward Wilder Playfair?, full cloth publisher?s binding, blind-stamped title to front, gilt title to spine, spine sunned. This two lectures were delivered on May 5th, 1920, in the University of Leyden. Its importance was immediately recognized and it was translated into Italian, French, English, Polish, Russian and Hungarian in quick succession.Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. for the first ed. in German cf. Weil 111; Schlipp-Shields n° 131; Alicke 97.
Seller: Harteveld Rare Books Ltd., Fribourg, Switzerland
EINSTEIN ALBERT. Sidelights on Relativity. Methuen, London, 1922.
Price: US$644.13 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. Contains 2 Essays: "Ether and Relativity" and "Geometry and Experience". Translated by G.B. Jeffrey and W. Perrett. Publisher's original blue boards with gilt spine lettering. Foxing to the page block edges and slight fading to the edges of the boards otherwise a VG copy, In the RARE, FRAGILE D/W priced 3/6 net to the spine (as called for). The D/W is in good condition with chipping at the head of the spine removing most of "SIDE" and at the base of the spine (not affecting any lettering. At the edge of the rear flap a former owner has written in fountain pen: 13 6/- per week. It looks much better than it sounds. Rare.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$718.18 + shipping
Description: First English edition, first printing. 8vo, 56 p., original blue cloth. Contains 2 small diagrams on pages 49 and 51. In his lecture on Geometry and Experience (1921) Einstein summed up his views on the geometrization of physics and relativity and the relation of mathematics to the external world. Weil 111c and 115c. From the library and ownership inscription of MAURICE CORNFORTH. Maurice Campbell Cornforth (1909-1980) was a British philosopher. Initially, he was in the early 1930s a follower of Wittgenstein. Rare. A fine copy.
Seller: Meiwes, Stuttgart, Germany
EINSTEIN, Albert.. Sidelights on Relativity.. Methuen, London., 1922.
Price: US$998.40 + shipping
Description: First English edition. Translated by G.B. Jeffery and W. Perrett. Octavo. pp [iv], 56, 8 adverts. Contains two addresses, "Ether and Relativity" and "Geometry and Experience'. Spine and cover edges a little faded. Lower corners slightly bruised. Endpapers and edges spotted. Very good in the scarce and fragile dustwrapper which is good, chipped at edges, a bit rubbed, starting to split at the joints and missing a piece of about an inch in the centre of the spine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 56 pp. Hardcover, bound in boards with dust jacket. The jacket edge-rubbed with small chips at the spine ends and some toning; the text block unmarked.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.