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1964142774Greenwich Conn.: Fawcett Publications 1964. Small octavo pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal K1446. A prolonged drought turns much of New York City into a concrete wasteland. "This Near-Future novel . depicts a water shortage . in New York which comes to a crisis in the drought of 1967. A hurricane then saves the city and its politicians." - John Clute SFE online. Cover a bit dusty a very good or better unread copy. #142774 Fawcett Publications unknown books
199815679Ewing New Jersey U.S.A.: Princeton Univ Pr 1998. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. First Edition. Original white wrappers mildly soiled with creasing front and rear covers. Clean internally a great reading copy. This is the English translation. Title: The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The Berlin Years Correspondence 1914-1918 Volume 8. Trade Paperback. Princeton Univ Pr paperback books
1987286088Princeton: Princeton University Press 1987. hardcover. near fine/fine. Volumes 1 & 2 of a 13 volume set. 4to blue cloth dust wrappers. Princeton: Princeton University Press 1987 1989. Top edges are just a bit foxed else a near fine copy.<br/><br/> Princeton University Press unknown books
1987S9126Princeton NJ:: Princeton University Press 1987. 1987. Two volumes. Large 8vo. lxvi 433; xxii 196 pp. Figs. bibliog. index. Gilt-stamped navy cloth dust jacket; wrappers. Fine. ISBN: 0691084076 Princeton University Press, 1987. hardcover books
198742951Princeton: Princeton University Press 1987. First American Edition. Large thick octavo 26cm.; publisher's cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; lxvi2433pp.; 10 leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos. Some wear to top jacket extremities else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by Stachel on front free endpaper. Princeton University Press unknown books
19981322768Princeton: Princeton University Press 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto; VG- Paperback; White spine with Black text; Covers have some edgewear some shelfwear covers bowing towards fore edge red marks on spine otherwise clean; Textblock has bending to top corner of page 713 otherwise clean; 714 pp; English Translation. 1322768. FP New Rockville Stock. Princeton University Press unknown books
1987UEINCOL00FBPrinceton University Press 1987. Fine. Einstein Albert. The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein volume 1: The Early Years 1879-1902. Stachel John. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1987. 433pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 4to. Cloth. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine; in clear plastic protector. Princeton University Press hardcover books
188024284<p><i><b>A unique and important artifact of his childhood.</b></i></p> <b>ALBERT EINSTEIN.</b>Ephemera. Set of Anker-Steinbaukasten children's building blocks by F. Ad. Richter & Cie. Rudolstadt Germany c.1880s. Approximately 160 composite quartz sand chalk and linseed oil blocks in red limestone and slate gray in various sizes and shapes together with three or more sets of building plans all contained in two wooden boxes with printed Anker-Steinbaukasten labels.<p>Einstein spent his childhood building "complicated structures" with these Anker-Steinbaukasten blocks. Accepting his later theory that "Imagination is more important than knowledge" the toys that encouraged his imagination became building blocks for the most important scientific theories of the last millennium.</p><p>His sister Maja Winteler-Einstein describing his childhood recalled that "The games he played … were very characteristic of Albert's capacities. These were mostly puzzles fretsaw work the erection of complicated structures with the well-known Anker building blocks and above all the construction of multi-storied card castles with which he filled his leisure." "Beitrag für sein Lebensbild" in <i>The collected papers of Albert Einstein</i>. ed. John Stachel. Volume 1: The early years. 1879-1902. Princeton University Press 1987 p.lix. Translated from German.</p><p>Based on the work of German educator Friedrich Froebel who created the concept of kindergarten these composite stone blocks were a popular toy of the 1880s and 1890s. The blocks were designed to help develop childrens' tactile senses and manual dexterity and also to stimulate imagination creativity and three-dimensional perception. Fellow scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer as well as architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius are among the geniuses who are known to have played with Anker blocks. </p><p><b>Provenance</b></p><p>The set had passed by direct descent from Albert Einstein to the consignor from whom we acquired the blocks at Christie's London on July 13 2016. </p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>A few blocks chipped and worn with original instructions and boxes worn soiled and defective.</p><p><b>Albert Einstein </b>1879-1955 was a German-Swiss born theoretical physicist internationally recognized as one of the greatest physicists of all time. He enunciated the general theory of Relativity with law explaining the relationship between the speed of light and its consequence the equivalence of mass and energy E=MC2. For his work in theoretical physics—largely for his 1905 paper on photons and photo-electricity—Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics announced in November 1922 retroactive for 1921. Working on a unified field theory he then attempted to explain gravitation and electromagnetism within one set of laws. With the expulsion of Jewish scholars from Germany after Hitler's rise to power Einstein joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton New Jersey 1933 which became the most celebrated research center in the world. In 1939 he signed a letter written to President Franklin Roosevelt warning him of the possibility of Germany developing a nuclear bomb. He urged the U.S. to begin uranium research thus beginning the top secret "Manhattan Project." Later at Princeton he tried to develop a unified field theory and to refute the accepted interpretation of quantum physics both unsuccessfully. Einstein received U.S. citizenship in 1940. <br /></p> books
1953137755New York: Dell Publishing 1953. First Edition. First Edition a paperback original. Basis for the 1956 film noir "While the City Sleeps" directed by Fritz Lang and starring George Sanders and Dana Andrews. <br/><br/>Near Fine in illustrated wrappers. Dell Publishing unknown books
1922R5312Berlin: Slovo 1922. Third edition. Paperback. Good. Original wraps; pp. 152 with frontispiece portrait of the author and his preface to the Russian edition. Front cover and endpaper detached but present; cheap paper tanned along the edges and a bit brittle. <br/><br/> Slovo paperback books
193137424Berlin: Akad. Wiss 1931. Weil 180. Offprint from S. preuss. Akad. Wiss. Akad. Wiss unknown books
192545497Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Cie 1925. FIRST FRENCH EDITION. Hardcover. Very good/No dust jacket. Published in the series ÒLes Maitres de la Pensee scientifiqueÓ. Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Cie 1925. Translated into French by M. Solovine. FIRST FRENCH EDITION. Frontis portrait of the author. 56 pp. Text in French. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Light brown stiff wrappers. Top quarter and bottom quarter of spine detached from binding but still present; small vertical tear to rear hinge; head and heel worn; corners and extremities lightly rubbed; wraps lightly soiled and toned at edges; pages untrimmed. Former ownerÕs signature and date to front free endpaper; pages toned especially at edges; publisherÕs promotional material laid in to pages 28/29. This is the first French edition to present translations of EinsteinÕs works ÒElektrodynamik bewegter KorperÓ and ÒIst die Tragheit eines Korpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhangigÓ. Very good/No dust jacket. Insurance required to ship this item. Gauthier-Villars et Cie hardcover books
19162364Braunschweig: Druck und Verlag von Friedr Vieweg and Son 1916. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST PRINTING IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF ONE OF EINSTEIN'S MAJOR WORKS: HIS FIRST PAPER ON THE DERIVATION OF PLANK'S LAW AND PROVIDING THE THEORETICAL BASIS FOR THE LASER. "Einstein commended the 'unparalleled boldness' of Planck's derivation of 1900 meaning not only the problem itself but also the fact that it was based on assumptions that were not entirely free of contradictions. Einstein now succeeded in the first of two papers in eliminating that flaw. More interesting than the derivation itself was the general character of his methods. Einstein proceeded from Niels Bohr's basic--and by then well tested--assumption that the electrons within an atom occupy a number of discrete energy states and are able through emission or absorption of radiation to pass from one of those states to another. Added to this was an assumption of thermodynamic equilibrium between radiation field and atom as well as a consideration of the 'classical' limiting case at high temperatures--and there was Planck's formula. This brief argument. also covers emission stimulated by the radiation field; thus the formulas already by implication contain the theory of the laser though it was to take nearly half a century to be realized" Folsing Albert Einstein 389. Weil 85. The "implication" containing the theory of the laser was more fully developed in his companion paper "On the Quantum Theory of Radiation" published a few weeks later. In the first paper Einstein wrestled with the concept that the atomic emission of radiation could be a directed process; in the second paper he convincingly demonstrates that this is indeed the case. IN: Verhandl. D. Deutch. Phys. Ges. Vol 18 pp. 318-323. Braunschweig: Druck und Verlag von Friedr. Vieweg and Son 1916. Octavo original wrappers; housed in custom half leather chemise. One thread literally resewn on wrappers a little creasing and soiling. A beautiful copy. RARE IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. Druck und Verlag von Friedr Vieweg and Son unknown books
50102pamphlet. 11 pages p 1105-1115 FROM: Annalen der Physik fourth series vol. 33. Modern wrappers. Leipzig 1910.<br/><br/> unknown books
19191857Berlin: Königlich Akademie der Wissenschaften 1919. First Edition. Fine. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of one of Einstein's major papers on the modification of general relativity and the beginning of his unified field theory. "As so often the case in relativity the story of quantum gravity begins with Einstein himself. Soon after the final formulation of general relativity he pointed out the need for a quantum modification of the theory. In "Do Gravitational Fields Play an Essential Role in the Structure of the Elementary Particles of Matter" he began to speculate whether gravitation plays a role in the atomistic structure of matter: There are reasons for thinking that the elementary formations which go to make up the atom are held together by gravitational forces. The above reflections show the possibility of a theoretical construction of matter out of the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field alone. "In order to construct such a model of an 'elementary particle' Einstein shows that it is necessary to modify the original gravitational field equations. The major interest of this paper is that his attention now shifted from possible quantum modifications of general relativity to the search for a unified theory of the electromagnetic and gravitational fields on the basis of which he hoped to explain the structure of matter. Quantum effects are to be derived from such a theory rather than postulated ad hoc. Einstein remained committed to this approach for the rest of his life: the search for a 'natural' mathematical extension of the general theory in the hope that such a theory would somehow explain the quantization of matter and energy" Iyer and Bhawal Black Holes Gravitational Radiation and the Universe. IN: Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Vol XX pp. 349-356. Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschafter 1919. Octavo original wrappers; custom box. A tiny bit of edgewear. A FINE COPY. Königlich Akademie der Wissenschaften unknown books
198335229NY: Dover 1983. 8vo pp. 56. Paper wraps. Cover very slightly soiled o/w a nice tight copy. Two addresses: Ether and the theory of relativity 1920 and Geometry and experience 1921. Dover unknown books
193237427Berlin: Akad. Wiss 1932. Akad. Wiss unknown books
1932433001932. Offprint from Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 32 1932. 31pp. 256 x 183 mm. Original printed wrappers a little chipped and darkened small splits in spine. Very good. First edition offprint issue. Einstein's work on semivectors "was stimulated by Ehrenfest's insistence on a better understanding of the relation between single-valued and double-valued representations of the Lorentz group . . . Einstein and Mayer went on to relate semivectors to the Dirac equation and to generalize the formalism to general relativity" Pais Subtle is the Lord pp. 451-452. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 186. unknown books
195133824London: Cassell 1951. 391 pp. Some browning and foxing. Cassell unknown books
1920374021920. Weil 110. Offprint from S. preuss. Akad. Wiss. unknown books
1982015731New York: Abrams 1982. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. Revised edition. Quarto 4to. 296 pages of text. Original hardcover binding with a small bump to the top of the spine; otherwise almost new condition. Unclipped dustjacket with minimal shelfwear and minor sunning to the spine; protected in archival mylar. Contains 217 illustrations including 82 plates in full color. The text is clean and unmarked. First published in 1975 this full-scale book on Francis is enlarged and brought up to date. First printing of the Revised Edition. Abrams Hardcover books
1975172601New York: Harry N. Abrams 1975. First edition. Oblong hardcover. First printing. 260 pages. Text by Peter Selz essay by Susan Einstein and with some poems inspired by Francis' artworks. Includes 185 illustrations with 45 in color. A tight close to near fine copy with some faint foxing in a near fine dust jacket. A nice copy of what remains one of the better monographs on Francis. Harry N. Abrams unknown books
1982178607New York: H.N. Abrams 1982. revised. Hardcover. VG/VG. Off-white cloth boards stamped design on front cover blue spine lettering; glossy color illustrated dust jacket with red lettering bw illustrated end pages 296 pp profusely illustrated with 217 illustrations including 82 in full color. Contents include:Sam Francis / Peter Selz -- Plates -- A selection of poems written about the artist -- The prints of Sam Francis: Lithographs and silkscreens / Susan Einstein -- Monotypes and other recent prints / Jan Butterfield. Also includes bibliographical references pages 288-292 and index and essays by Susan Einstein and Jan Butterfield. H.N. Abrams hardcover books
1962121258Düsseldorf Germany: Galerie Vomel 1962. Softcover. VG. White paper wraps. Unpaginated with 8 pp. and 4 bw plates. Text in German. Includes a bw photo of the artist a list of works in the exhibition held January - February 1962 and a brief essay. Galerie Vomel unknown books
193010508Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1930. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine/good. First edition of Roosevelt: His Mind in Action by Lewis Einstein in scarce dust jacket. Octavo vii 5 259pp. Maroon buckram cloth title printed on label affixed to cover and spine. Some leaves unopened. Uncut outer edge. No additional printings mentioned on copyright page. Previous ownership inscription on front free endpaper. In publisher's scarce dust jacket $3.00 retail price on front flap long closed tear to front cover large chipping to spine and back panel archival repair to verso bright illustrations. A rare find in the publisher's dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
