SCIENTIST INSCRIBESWITH A POEM
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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.
NewYork, 1930; inscription: Np, 1931
[1,500/2,500]
“
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.”