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Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. First US edition. A very scarce signed first American printing of these lectures on gravitation, mathematics and physics, principles of conservation in nature, symmetry, past vs. future, and the quantum mechanical view of nature. These lectures were recorded by the BBC for broadcast in Great Britain, and the text of these talks were first published in the UK to accompany the TV show. This is the first US edition, issued in a paperback series (there are a small number of hardcover copies known to exist, although they are not mentioned in the reviews of the book). Feynman remains the greatest teacher of physics and one of the world's most beloved scientists on the strength of his lectures and memoirs. He won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1965 for his work on quantum electrodynamics. Signed copies of this book are very scarce. Only one has sold at auction, a 1983 printing (published sixteen years after this first printing) sold by Sotheby's in 2019 for $5,250. At the time, the auctioneers wrote, "we have seen no other signed copies of this book come to market." First edition (first printing stating "First M. I. T. Press Paperback Edition, March 1967" on the copyright page, with no indications of later printings). A very good copy, with light spotting to the plain white wrappers. Lower corner of front cover creased; stray pen mark in the margin on p. 62, thus very good. This copy is inscribed, "To Ed Sanders, Dick Feynman" on the title page. Ed Saunders (with a u) was a supplier of equipment to Feynman's lab at Cal-Tech. This copy came from Ed Saunders II, to Half-Price Books, to a Portland bookscout, to me.