first edition Hardcover
1923 · New York
by RUSSELL, Bertrand
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1923. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition, published in the same year as the English edition. Octavo. 162pp. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Brief gift inscription dated in the year of publication on front flyleaf, spine lettering a little dull, overall near fine in very good or better dust jacket with light wear on the spine, with a few tiny chips at tips of spine, quite fresh and bright. An introduction to the New Physics, including the final chapter which is devoted to "The New Physics and Relativity." Russell won the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature. A very uncommon title in dust jacket. (Inventory #: 469734)