INSCRIBED BY EINSTEIN: THE WORLD AS I SEE IT, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH
EINSTEIN, Albert. The World as I See It. New York: Covici, Friede, 1934. Octavo, original gray cloth. Housed in a custom quarter green morocco clamshell box. $10000.
First edition in English of Einstein's first work for the general reader, signed and dated by him: "A. Einstein. 54."
The five sections of The World as I See It feature the thoughts and personal philosophy of "the greatest physicist of the 20th century" (PMM) on such issues as pacifism, Judaism, the German question, literature, modern science and more. This edition is preceded by the German-language first edition, published in Amsterdam as Mein Weltbild in the same year. Without the scarce dust jacket.
Interior fine, lightest edge-wear, faint rubbing to cloth, spine stamping chipped. A near-fine copy, highly desirable inscribed by Einstein.