FIRST EDITION OF OUT OF MY LATER YEARS, INSCRIBED BY ALBERT EINSTEIN

EINSTEIN, Albert. Out of My Later Years. New York: Philosophical Library, (1950). Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $13,500.

First edition of Einstein’s second collection of social science-related articles, addresses, speeches, letters and papers covering the period before, during, and after the Second World War, inscribed by him, "To Mrs. Enid Ruth Hammer, A. Einstein. 52."

Commenting on the potential conflict of science and politics, Albert Einstein once turned to an assistant and sighed, "Yes, time has to be divided this way between politics and our equations" (DSB). In this continuation of his first collection of essays, The World As I See It (1934), Einstein offers further thoughts crossing that divide, mirroring his political, social, philosophical and scientific concerns. Drawn from articles, speeches, letters and various papers, all written from 1934 to 1950, with many published here for the first time, the book includes selections on science, ethics, public affairs, issues in Jewish history, the dilemma of modern war and tributes to figures such as Marie Curie, Isaac Newton and Mahatma Gandhi. This work was issued in a number of different cloths and dust jackets, and there continues to be bibliographic uncertainty about some points; this copy's cloth and jacket is commonly identified as first edition.

Book with toning to endpapers, minor wear to spine ends; dust jacket with only mild toning to spine. A nearly fine copy.