This is Max Born's own description of the book in a letter which he wrote to the Manchester Guardian in 1951, when the US government was licensing the book to American publishers while paying no royalties to the author:
In 1932 1 published a voluminous textbook on optics, the fruit or many years of strenuous labour, with the German arm of J. Springer. Six months later I had to leave Germany as a victim of Hitler's persecution and found a refuge and a position in this country. From that moment I received no royalties from the book which, as a Jewish product. was suppressed in Germany. During the war the book, like many others from German Publishing firms, was confiscated by the United States Government: the Custodian of Alien Property sold the rights for publication to the firm Edwards Brothers, Ann Arbor, who reprinted it by a photo-technical process and sold it at an exorbitant price. As it is the only modern work of its kind. I had to purchase a copy for my own department in Edinburgh. and it is now found in many physical libraries.
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