International Encyclopedia of Unified Science,Volume 1 Numbers 1-8

by Otto Neurath, Niels Bohr, John Dewey, Bertrand Russell

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First edition · Signed

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

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