The Principle of Relativity A Collection of Original Memoirs on the Special and General Relativity by Einstein, Albert; Lorentz, Hendrik; Minkowski, Hermann; Weyl, Hermann - 1923

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. 216 pp. Blue cloth with spine label. Near Fine in Fair original dust jacket. Book itself in unusually nice shape. Bookplate on paste down. Faint stain to spine label, light foxing to cloth. Dust jacket price intact (on spine, $4.00); rubbing; spine panel missing a number of chips, dampstained; masking tape on verso as well as a bit of archival mending tissue; chips missing along edges, especially at top edge. Scarce in jacket nonetheless. An influential collection of papers on relativity with many contributions from Einstein as well as three other leading physicists and mathematicians of the early 20th Century. Includes notes by A. Sommerfeld.