Einstein's Dreams (inscribed to Dava Sobel)

by Lightman, Alan [Dava Sobel]

$1,500 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed · In dust jacket

NY: Pantheon, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. A wonderful association copy, inscribed on the title page in the year of publication: "To Dava [Sobel] with warm wishes, Alan, February 1993." Sobel is an acclaimed popular science writer and the author of bestselling books such as Longitude, Galileo's Daughter (a finalist for the Pulitzer and adapted for an A&E show), The Planets, and most recently The Elements of Marie Curie. She is a Guggenheim fellow and was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2022 "for outstanding writings covering many centuries of key developments in physics and astronomy and the people central to those developments." Lightman is a physicist and an equally acclaimed writer on physics, astronomy, and the history of science. He is a professor at MIT. Einstein's Dream is his first novel and was an international bestseller, a book that imagines Einstein's troubled dreams as he works out the theory of relativity. Blurbs by Salman Rushdie and James Gleick. A duodecimo, near fine with faint (Long Island) foxing to edges of the text block. In a near fine jacket with a little edgewear and creasing to top of spine. A great association between writers on astronomy and historical science figures.

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Year: 1993
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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