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  “one of the transcendent moral influences of our century" (John F. Kennedy) Albert Schweitzer's Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography; Inscribed by him

  SCHWEITZER, Albert.

  Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography.

  New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1949.

  First edition, early printing of the Nobel laureate's classic autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Schweitzer on the recto of a photograph to Miss Margaret Lial and additionally inscribed and signed by him in French on verso and additionally inscribed by conductor and pianist Antonia Brico. The Dutch born conductor and pianist, Antonia Brico had an enduring friendship with Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the organ-playing doctor who practiced medicine in the wilds of Africa. The two shared a love of Bach’s music, and she detoured home from an engagement in Europe to visit Schweitzer in Africa in 1950. This copy was inscribed by Brico to music shop owner in Monterey CA, Margaret Lial, who arranged concerts in a hall above her shop where the two met. In July 1938, Brico was the first woman to conduct the New York Philharmonic. With a postcard photograph depicting a nursing care scene in Lambarene, in western Gabon, where Schweitzer’s hospital was built to treat tropical diseases. With a photograph of Brico conducting the Denver Orchestra in 1950, inscribed and signed by her on the verso and a two-page photostat Christmas letter from Brico outlining her travels, including her lecture on Schweitzer and being his guest at his French headquarters in Gunsbach...

  Price: $3,000.00     Item Number: 140103

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