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Methuen & co. ltd, 1922. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1922. First English Edition. 123 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Four black and white diagrams within. Noticeable cracking to front hinge and to gutters, exposing netting. However binding throughout remains firm with all pages attached. Pages are clean overall, with mild tanning throughout. Previous owner's inscription in blue pencil to front pastedown. Occasional thumb-marking. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping. Visible tanning to spine and edges with some crushing to spine ends. Small splits to spine ends and corners; cloth is slightly frayed. Black marks with faint water staining to both boards. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Minor dents around edges. Book has a slight forward lean.
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The Meaning Of Relativity: Four Lectures Delivered At Princeton University, May, 1921 with 4 Diagrams.
by Albert Einstein
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THE MEANING OF RELATIVITY: Four Lectures Delivered at Princeton University, May, 1921, with Four Diagrams
by Einstein, Albert
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Methuen and Co, 1922. First English Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. [8], 123 pp. + 8 ads. Orange cloth, deckled fore and tail edges, gilt spine lettering, blind stamped title to front cover. Front hinge and first signature show a bit of play, some handsoil and typical toning to covers, owner's signature (Michael J. Evans?) and bookplate to front endpaper (A. R. Michaelis). Edwin Plimpton Adams trans. First printing of Einstein's public lectures at Princeton University, which were met with great fanfare as the American victory tour of the newly crowned king of modern physics. A massive crowd turned out for the first of these lectures, though attendance dwindled in subsequent lectures as it became clear that even this synthesized overview of relativity remained opaque to all but the most advanced scholars. While Princeton hosted these lectures and held the copyright, Methuen was first to press with the English translation, as they were with Einstein's two previous books. "Neither…
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