The Man They Wouldn't Let Die
London: Secker & Warburg, 1966. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #47277
London: Secker & Warburg, 1966. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); publisher's boards in blue photo-illustrated dust jacket; xiii,[3],207pp.; four leaves of halftone photographs printed on rectos and versos. Moderate wear to jacket margins including smallish chip at bottom edge of upper panel, boards very slightly warped, else a Very Good copy.
Scarce biography of Lev Landau (1908-1968), the Russian recipient of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics. The work focuses primarily on Landau's life following a 1962 car crash that left him in a coma for two months during which he was "four times pronounced clinically dead."
Price: $150.00