Albert Einstein. 1949

[Albert Einstein (1879-1955)] – edited by Paul Arthur Schlipp (1897-1993).

Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist. Edited by Paul Arthur Schlipp. Evanston: The Library of Living Philosophers, 1949.

Presentation copy of the first edition, inscribed by Einstein to John G. Kemeny: ‘Meinem lieben Kemeny / A. Einstein. 50’. Kemeny worked as Einstein's assistant in 1948-49, as a sabbatical from his doctoral studies. Part of the massive wartime Hungarian scientific emigration that drained the country of its greatest talents, Kemeny studied at Princeton but took a year off to work in Richard Feynman's computation group within the Manhattan Project. He was later one of the co-inventors of the BASIC computer programming language. Weil, Appendix p.41.

Quarto (231 x 155mm). Frontispiece portrait of Einstein, one facsimile plate of autograph MS (2 leaves loose). Original blue cloth, gilt facsimile of Einstein’s signature stamped on upper cover, spine gilt lettered, dustjacket (pastedowns lightly stained, dustjacket lightly worn with small chip and two short tears to lower panel, longer tear along upper joint). Provenance: John G. Kemeny (1926-1992; authorial presentation inscription on endpaper).

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