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CURIE, Eve (1904–2007). Madame Curie: A Biography, inscribed. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1937. Large 8vo. Translated by Vincent Sheean. Illustrated portraits from photographs, including frontispiece of Marie Curie. Publisher’s beige buckram stamped in dark brown, gilt, and blind (endpaper gutters toned; else near fine). FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED BY MARIE CURIE’S DAUGHTER on half title and dated “March 29, 1939”. Laid in with a pamphlet from the author’s lecture “The Magic of Radium” (March 30, 1939); where this book was probably signed.