The Foundations of Arithmetic

London: Basil Blackwell, 1950. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Green Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Xii, 119 Pp. , With Page Numbers And Text Duplicated In English And German. Green Cloth, Gilt. First Edition In English With German And English Text On Facing Pages. Near Fine, Slight Rubbing At Corners, Gilt Brilliant, Tiny Owner's Signature (Philosopher Irwin Chester Lieb) At Center Of Front Free Endpaper, With Some Infrequent Pencil Emphasis Marks And At Least One Extended Marginalia, And At Least One Double Emphasis Mark In Ink. Dj, Unlaminated And Slightly Taller Than The Book, Is Very Good, With Very Slight Browning To Spine, A Few Very Small Discolorations And Stray Marks, 1/8" Chipping To Part Of Top Of Spine, And At Upper Front Tip. Ernest Chester Lieb (Chet Lieb) Died In Pasadena On May 23, 1992, After A Long Illness But Just Before His Magnum Opus, Past, Present And Future: A Philosophical Study Of Time, Was Published. From Princeton, He Went On To Cornell For An M.A., Followed By A Year In N.Y.C. Advertising. However, Academia Kept Calling, And Lie Went On To Yale For His Ph.D. And To Teach There And At Connecticut College, Before Joining The Philosophy Department At The Univ. Of Texas, In 1963, As Professor And Administrator. He Was Instrumental In Establishing The Press As Well As Serving As Dean Of Graduate Studies. In 1981 He Moved On To The Univ. Of Southern California As Provost. Subsequently He Served As Dean And V.P. As Well As Professor Of Philosophy. He Served On Many National Panels And Committees, Including The American Council Of Learned Societies, The National Endowment For The Humanities, And The Assn. Of American Universities. He Authored Four Books And Innumerable Scholarly Papers. He Was A U.S. Navy Pilot During Wwii And Held A Commercial Pilot's License. In 1983 He And A Colleague Traveled To Russia To Facilitate The Travel Of Seven Prominent Soviet Scientist "Refuseniks" Coming To This Country As Visiting Scholars.