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Lot 119

EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Relativity. The Special & the General Theory A Popular Exposition. Toronto: The Ryerson Press, [ca. 1920].

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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Relativity. The Special & the General Theory A Popular Exposition. Toronto: The Ryerson Press, [ca. 1920]. Frontispiece portrait of Einstein. [140], [8, ads] pp. Publisher's full red cloth, front board lettered and ruled in blind, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, publisher's unclipped (no price) dust jacket.

Condition

Cloth a bit rubbed, corners lightly bumped, endleaves offset, frontispiece and a few text leaves worn at edges, some occasional thumbsoiling, several gutters overopened; jacket spine tattered and in pieces and with tape repairs on verso, spine sunned, jacket panels chipped and with tears, jacket toned, soiled, worn. A near fine copy in a fair jacket. FIRST CANADIAN EDITION IN THE SCARCE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. 

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