Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1923. First American edition, first printing. Near Fine with slight fade to spine cloth, gilt stamping very sharp on front cover. Previous owner bookplate to front paste down with patch of abrasion at nearby gutter. Pages toned, with several hinges just slightly over-opened. In a Very..... More
London: Methuen and Co., 1920. First British edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's red cloth. Good. Cloth heavily faded at spine, spotted and lightly scratched. Previous owner details to front free endpaper. Endsheets offset from binder's glue, pages toned with "Biographical Note" page chipped at top edge, and pages toward..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1938. First edition, first printing. Previous owner signature of Albert K. Chapman to front free end paper. Chapman served as the president of the Eastman Kodak Company from 1952-1960, then as chairman until he retired in 1967.Publisher's navy blue cloth binding, stamped in gilt. Near..... More
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1908. First edition, scarce author's offprint (''Uberreicht von den Verfassern''), essentially a presentation copy of the article for the authors' use. One of a small unspecified number (perhaps 25-50) of copies thus, also printed in the journal Annalen der Physik, Vierte Folge, Band 26; very few..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1923. First American edition. 216 pp. Blue cloth with spine label. Near Fine in Fair original dust jacket. Book itself in unusually nice shape. Bookplate on paste down. Faint stain to spine label, light foxing to cloth. Dust jacket price intact (on spine, $4.00);..... More
New York and London: Pantheon Books and Victor Gollancz, 1958. Uncorrected proof consisting of two numbered metal-bound annotated manuscripts with laid-in stapled duplicates of pp. pp. (4), (1, TOC), 4 (TOC w/ first page repeated), iv-xv, 283 ;(1, TOC), 284-593. 124-126 and 574d-574m, as well as section "Appendix B," two..... More