International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, Volume 1 Numbers 1-8
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1938-1951.
First editions, first printings. Signed by editor-in-chief Otto Neurath in pencil in margin of the inaugural issue's first essay, his "Unified Science as Encylopedic Integration." Neurath's trademark self-caricature is on the facing page; he pictures himself as an angry elephant (he was apparently a large man) plucking flowers. Author and educator Paul A. Schilpp's copies with his name written on the front wrap of the first six numbers. viii, 75; viii, 59; viii, 71; viii, 59; viii, 59; viii, 80; vi, 78; iv, 59 pp. Volume 1 Numbers 1-8. Publisher's blue wraps: no. 8 stapled, the rest perfectbound. Near Fine with light shelf wear and bumped corners. No. 7's wraps lighter than the others, a few tiny stains to wraps. Notice laid into no. 5. A rare signature an important Austrian-born modernist-- the inventor of ISOTYPE, founder of the Museum of Society and Economy, and key figure in the Vienna Circle-- on one of his greatest achievements.
Title and author list as follows:
1. Encyclopedia and Unified Science / Otto Neurath, Niels Bohr, John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, Rudolf Carnap, and Charles Morris
2. Foundations of the Theory of Signs / Charles Morris
3. Foundations of Logic and Mathematics / Rudolf Carnap
4. Linguistic Aspects of Science / Leonard Bloomfield
5. Procedures of Empirical Science / Victor F. Lenzen
6. Principles of the Theory of Probability / Ernest Nagel
7. Foundations of Physics / Philipp Frank
8. Cosmology / E. Finlay-Freundlich.
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