Past Years by Sir Oliver Lodge - 1932

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First U.S. Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. A Good copy in dark blue cloth lettered in gold. Spine label shadow, and ownership stamp inside the front cover, but no other ex-libris indicators. The binding is sound, and the text is clean/unmarked. No dust jacket.

New York: Scribners, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No D/J. 9x6x2. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front board. Previous owners bookplate to front paste down. Small label to ffep. Previous owners inscription to ffep. Slight fading to spine with rubbing to head and tail of spine.

Paperback / softback. New. Educated at a school where grammatical mistakes resulted in a beating, Sir Oliver Lodge became a gentle professor of physics at the University of Liverpool. He gave popular public lectures, pioneered early radio and X-ray technologies, and soon won fame as a broadcaster. This touching autobiography first appeared in 1931.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Memoir of the British physicist & spiritualist, recounting his early (unpleasant) education, family life, scientific & later psychical explorations. First American edition (first printing) with "A" on copyright page. Hardcover. Light wear to book, corners bumped, minor stain to rear cover, tiny dents to front cover; jacket shows a little edgewear, foxing, light chipping. Text clean; [2], 364 pages; index, b/w plates, all present as called for.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.