New York: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1951. First edition, first printing. ix, [i], 646 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with sunned cloth, light wear, former owner's name written in pencil on paste down. Lacking dust jacket. Rare. A classic physics text that has gone through..... More

New York: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1951. First edition, first printing. ix, [1], 646 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with moderate rubbing and sunning to spine and extremities, ownership signature to front pastedown, and old price sticker residue to back pastedown.... More

London: Macmillan, 1928. First edition of Niels Bohr's paper, "The Quantum Postulate and Atomic Theory," as published in Nature, vol. 121, no. 3050, pp. 561-608, April 14, 1928, the entire issue offered here, with Bohr's paper on pp. 580-590. Some soiling to covers, light creasing, ink stamp on front cover..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925. 1925-26. First edition. Three extremely influential papers marking the theoretical foundation for modern quantum mechanics and defining the discipline: "Uber quantentheorestische Umdeutung kinematischer und mechanischer Beziehungen" by Werner Heisenberg; "Zur Quantenmechanik" by Max Born and Pasqual Jordan; and "Zur Quantenmechanik II" by Born, Heisenberg and Jordan..... More

New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1926. First edition, first printing of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist's first book. Bound in publisher's tan buckram stamped in blind with spine lettered in gilt and blocked in black. Near Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, slightly nicked. More

Lancaster, PA & Ithaca, NY: Published for the American Physical Society, 1913. First edition. Complete issue, pp. [409]-536. Bound without wraps in green cloth with leather spine lettered in gilt. Pages toned, light corner creasing to several terminal leaves and light soiling to final page, Near Fine. Contains..... More

Paris: Societe, 1924. First edition of Marie Curie's work on radioactive isotopes. Signed by the author on the half title page and inscribed: "Pour l'oeuvre des petits filleuls." [4], 210 pp. Bound in patterned textured paper lettered in black over pale gray spine cloth lettered in dark gray, flexible boards..... More

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First edition, first printing. Signed by Freeman Dyson and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine lettered in gilt, top edges stained red. Near Fine, boards lightly splayed. In a Near Fine unclipped..... More

Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2007. First edition, first printing. Signed by Freeman J. Dyson on the title page and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket with trivial rubbing and faint sunning..... More

New York: Philosophical Library, [1950]. First edition, first printing. Signed by Albert Einstein on the front free endpaper and dated the year of publication. Above and beneath Einstein's signature, Rabbi Irving Levey has inscribed this book to former owner Harold Rosenstein and written two lines of Hebrew that translate to..... More

London: Methuen & Co., 1923. First British edition, first printing. viii, 216, [8, ads] pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in blind on front board and in gilt on spine; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with fading, light wear and soiling to covers. Evidence of bookplate removal to..... More

[Berlin]: [No Publisher], 1925. Revised edition. [783]-797 pp. Publisher's original printed wrappers. About Very Good with thin tear along front wrap fold near head, a little chipping to wraps at spine, front wrap hinge fragile, contents toned with age. This copy belonged to Hans Albert Einstein, Albert Einstein’s oldest son..... More

Evanston, IL: The Library of Living Philosophers, Inc., 1949. First edition, trade issue. xvi, 781 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine with offsetting to endpapers, in a Fine dust jacket, unfaded and unworn. A very sharp copy of a collectible volume all about the famous..... More