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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955) and INFELD, Leopold (1898-1968). The Evolution of Physics. The Growth of Ideas from Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1938. 8vo. Illustrated with three inserted plates and several intertextual diagrams. x, [1]-[322], [2, blank] pp. Publisher’s full blue cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt, publisher’s dust jacket (price, “$2.50,” is present a lower rear flap - Minor rubbing to cloth binding, light offsetting to endleaves, a few faint pencil check marks in text; numerous tape repairs to jacket verso, spine toned and chipped, large tears to jacket, numerous chips and tears to margins). A fine copy in a good jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. This book was written for the general public, to give them an understandable overview of physics as understood at the time.