Nov 01, 2016 - Sale 2428

Sale 2428 - Lot 70

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
SCIENTIST INSCRIBES WITH A POEM EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Anton Reiser. Albert Einstein: A Biographical Portrait. Signed and Inscribed, with a four-line poem, in German, to Mrs. [Leonor?] Michaelis, on the front free endpaper. Small 4to, publisher's cloth, faint soiling to spine; dust jacket markedly worn, spine panel lacking, chipping to all edges. New York, 1930; inscription: Np, 1931

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"This life is bizarre and unsound / It looks clearer written down / The urgencies that in the dark are touched / Don't frighten others very much."