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Author: Korzybski, Alfred
Title: Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
Place Published: Lancaster, PA
Publisher:The International Non-Aristotelian Library Publishing Company
Date Published: [1933]
Description:

[6], xx, 798 pp. 23.3x15 cm. (9¼x6"), cloth. First Edition, first printing.

Very rare first edition, first issue presentation copy of this classic 20th century work of philosophy.  Inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Anita L. Lebeson, with best semantic wishes and memories, Evanston, 1935, A. Korzybski." Alfred Korzybski, Polish-American scholar, developed a field called general semantics, arguing that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and the languages humans have developed. Anita Lebeson, to whom the book is inscribed, was an author and historian whose books included "Pilgrim People," a history of Jews in the United States, and "Jewish Pioneers in America." The present volume is the first publication of The International Non-Aristotelian Library Publishing Company, of which Korzybski was the general editor - few if any of the several score of proposed future volumes were ever published.

Minor rubbing to spine and extremities; very good oe better.