Description
A first UK edition, first printing of The Periodic Table by Primo Levi, published by Michael Joseph, London in 1985. A fine copy free from inscriptions, some toning to the text block. In a similarly fine unclipped wrapper.
First published in Italian in 1975, The Periodic Table by Primo Levi comprises twenty-one stories, each named after a chemical element. Drawing upon Primo Levi’s life as a Jewish chemist, it moves from his ancestry and education through Fascist Italy, resistance, Auschwitz and post-war work. Blending memoir, fiction, science and moral inquiry, Levi uses matter as a means of understanding human experience. Precise, inventive and humane, it was named the finest science book ever by the Royal Institution.
