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Portrait Photograph of Albert Einstein, signed by Yousuf Karsh

Portrait Photograph of Albert Einstein, signed by Yousuf Karsh by EINSTEIN, ALBERT; KARSH, YOUSUF

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Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company
Title
Portrait Photograph of Albert Einstein, signed by Yousuf Karsh
Author
EINSTEIN, ALBERT; KARSH, YOUSUF
Seller
The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Princeton, NJ: np, 1948. framed. Fine. ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED IMAGES OF EINSTEIN, SIGNED BY MASTER PHOTOGRAPHER, YOUSUF KARSH. On February 11, 1948, Yousuf Karsh, perhaps the most accomplished portrait photographer of his generation, visited The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton to fulfill a dream of his: to photograph Albert Einstein. As he later explained: "Among the tasks that life as a photographer had set me, a portrait of Albert Einstein had always seemed a 'must' - not only because this greatest refugee of our century has been accounted by all the world as the [most] outstanding scientist since Newton, but because his face, in all its rough grandeur, invited and challenged the camera..." (Karsh: Beyond the Camera, David Travis, ed.). "At Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, I found Einstein a simple, kindly, almost childlike man, too great for any of the postures of eminence. One did not have to understand his science to feel the power of his mind or the force of his personality" (official Karsh website)... "Awed before this unique intellect, I yet ventured to ask Einstein his views on human immortality. He mused for a moment and then replied, 'What I believe of immortality? There are two kinds. The first lives in the imagination of people and is thus an illusion. There is a relative immortality, which may conserve the memory of an individual for some generations. But there is only one true immortality, on a cosmic scale, ant that is the immortality of the cosmos itself. There is no other.' "He spoke of these ultimate mysteries as calmly as he might a student's question about mathematics - with such an air of quiet confidence, indeed, that I found his answer profoundly disturbing to one who held other views. Knowing him to be an accomplished violinist, I turned the conversation, and asked if there were any connection between music and mathematics. 'In art, he said, 'and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavour. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony. He who lacks it can never be more than a great technician in either field.' "Was he optimistic about the future harmony of mankind itself? He appeared to ponder deeply and remarked in graver tones: 'Optimistic? No. But if mankind fails to find a harmonious solution than there will be disaster on a dimension beyond anyone's imagination.' To what source should we look for the hope of the world's future? 'To ourselves,' said Einstein. He spoke sadly yet serenely, as one who had looked into the universe far past mankind's small affairs. In this humor my camera caught him... the portrait of a man who had traveled beyond hope or despair." (Yousuf Karsh, Regarding Heroes). (Opening quote from: Colin Naylor, ed., Contemporary Photographers.) Silver print. Photo taken Princeton, 1948. Printed later. Signed by Karsh in full beneath the image on photographer's mount. With Karsh's original calling "card" - a 4x10 inch cardboard slip - included. Image: 8x9 inches. Framed to an overall size of 12x15 inches. Fine condition.
The Marriage Guest

The Marriage Guest by Bercovici, Konrad

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Title
The Marriage Guest
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Bercovici, Konrad
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ReadInk (United States)
Condition
Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
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New York: Boni & Liveright. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1925. 3rd printing. Hardcover. [a nice copy with only minimal shelfwear; the jacket has a short closed tear at the bottom of the front panel, a little nick at each end of the spine, which is also slightly browned]. The Romanian-American author's first novel, following half a dozen collections of short stories (overwhemingly about Gypsy life, the subject with which his name will always be linked), a couple of non-fiction books, and a play. Subtitled (on the jacket) "A Novel of New York," it's set in the German quarter of New York's East Side. From a contemporary newspaper review (unsigned): "The story is woven around Greta, the daughter of Anton Zwenge, a German fiddle maker and repairer living on the east side of New York. Greta falls in love with a composer, but the practical side of her nature, together with the importunities of her mother, bid her marry a rising young contractor. She early learns her mistake and is able to keep her marriage vows only by imagining her husband to be the musician. So the daughter born to them is the physical child of the contractor and the spiritual child of the musician." Uncommon in jacket. Hanna 325. ***This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4, "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: (1) email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; (2) view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; (3) browse the books individually (including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog) on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-Fiction." .
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The Dome

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Title
The Dome
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Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (United States)
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Good
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London: Unicorn. 1898-1899. Two bound volumes: Vol. One and Vol. Two of the New Series (October to December, 1898 and January to March, 1899). Owner names; bindings worn; contents preserved, but still only good copies. Hardcover. Good.

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