Description: Dust jacket has frayed edges including a small tape repair. Book itself has a prior ownership signature on front endpapers and is otherwise FINE. A gently handled copy with little to no wear. Out of My Later Years – by Albert Einstein. Published by Philosophical Library, New York, 1950 – first edition. Rare copy with the original paper jacket depicting Einstein’s portrait taken by the Jewish photographer Lotte Jacobi. A collection of essays written by Einstein in the last 15 years of his life between 1934-1950. The essays deal with his attitudes towards religion, education, human faith, politics, Jewish affairs, war and peace, fundamentals of physics, and more. In several chapters of the book, Einstein explains the theory of relativity in simple terms accessible to everyone. The book provides insights into Einstein the philosopher, scientist, and man. The essays are reproduced in their exact words without any editing. In known copies of the first edition, the dust jacket has no image at all. Before us is a rare copy with a dust jacket bearing Einstein’s portrait taken by the Jewish photographer Lotte Jacobi. It is unclear why the publisher chose to design the dust jacket differently. We have seen more than one dust jacket design for copies of the first edition, some with no image, some in black and white with a drawing of Einstein, and some with a different lettering style. However, before us is a rare copy with a dust jacket featuring Einstein’s portrait as photographed by Jacobi. Lotte Jacobi [1896-1990] was a Jewish German-American photographer who photographed many of her famous acquaintances, including Käthe Kollwitz, Wystan Hugh Auden, Eleanor Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, Martin Buber, Marc Chagall, Chaim Weizmann, and others. Some regard her work as a “chronicle of an era” because she photographed so many important 20th-century figures.
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Language: English
Special Attributes: Dust Jacket, 1st Edition, Lotte Jacobi Artist Portrait
Author: Albert Einstein
Region: North America
Publisher: Philosophical Library
Topic: Historical
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: History
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1950