Neurath Editor in Chief (2 results)

Pamphlet. 71p., later impression, touch of soil on front warp, slightly toned wraps, slightly handled wraps, else very good. International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. Otto Neurath, who had passed away by the time this later edition was published, was an Austro-Marxist and founder of the Vienna Circle.

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 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.