Nobel. The Man and His Prizes.

Hardback. Ticks and underlining in pencil to some pages. Previous owners name sticker to inside cover. Mark to inside front cover from removal of old sellotape. Slightly sunned spine. Blue cloth with silver lettering. This book gave the history of the first fifty years of prize-giving written by prominent Swedish cionnaisseurs and of the prize-awarding activities of the five Nobel domains. The story of the achievements which had been honoured with Nobel Prizes was at the same to a very large degree a review of the remarkable progress made in the five Nobel domains. In the book was also incorporated a short biography of Alfred Nobel by the late professor Henrik Schuck, Sweidsh Academy, and once Chair-man of the Board of Directors of the Nobel Foundation; further an account of the birth of the Foundation given by one of its principal architects the late Ragnar Sohlman, collaborator and friend of Alfred Nobel and later executor of his will; finally the Executive Director of the Foundation since 1948, Nils K. Stahle, summarized its functions and activities. Now, about ten years later, a new issue in the English language, brought up to date by the same authors, is appearing at the Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam. Thus an account of six decades - 1901 - 1961 - of Nobel Prizes has been made available. 690 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).…