HIS “ONE AND ONLY INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY”: SIGNED BY EINSTEIN
EINSTEIN, Albert. Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist. Evanston: Library of Living Philosophers, 1949. Octavo, original brown cloth, beveled edges, top edge gilt, uncut and unopened. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
First edition, number 756 of 760 copies signed and dated by Einstein.
“The greatest physicist of the 20th century” (PMM 408). This impressive volume offers an excellent study of Einstein’s life as well as of his scientific and philosophic thought. Included are Einstein’s autobiographical notes in German and English; 24 descriptive and critical essays on Einstein’s work (contributors include Wolfgang Pauli, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Kurt Gödel and Niels Bohr), together with Einstein’s responses; and a bibliography of his writings and index. Illustrated with frontispiece, photographic portraits and plates. Without rarely found original glassine, slipcase. This volume is the seventh in the “Library of Living Philosophers.”
A fine signed copy.