Signed book: Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist. First edition, limited issue, numbered 364/760. Evanston, IL: The Library of Living Philosophers, Inc., 1949. Hardcover bound in the publisher's brown cloth with gilt-stamped facsimile signature on the front board, top edge gilt, with original slipcase, 6.75 x 9.5, 781 pages (uncut). Signed on the colophon in fountain pen, "Albert Einstein, '49." Autographic condition: very fine. Book condition: VG+/None in a G+ slipcase, with a gift inscription to the front pastedown and moderate-to-heavy edgewear to the case.
This scarce, limited edition volume was published as the seventh entry in the 'Library of Living Philosophers' series, and contains Einstein's significant 'autobiographical notes,' plus a wealth of essays on the the genius by his contemporaries: Louis de Broglie, Wolfgang Pauli, Max Born, Niels Bohr, and others are among the contributors. In the preface, editor Paul Arthur Schilpp notes: 'These recollections of conversations with Einstein on the epistemological aspects of physical science would never have come into being, were it not for the peculiar nature of this series.' A fantastic tribute to the great physicist's life and work.
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