Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is a nonprofit academic publisher founded in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1905, publisher of Einstein's The Meaning of Relativity and von Neumann's game theory.
- Editions tracked
- 66
- First editions
- 47
- Books
- 63
- Years
- 1941 to 2018
About Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent, nonprofit academic publisher in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 1905 and closely tied to Princeton University, with more than 10,000 titles in print.
It was started by Whitney Darrow, a recent Princeton graduate who managed the Alumni Weekly, with $1,000 from the university trustee and publisher Charles Scribner II. It began as a printer above a drugstore on Nassau Street and was reincorporated as a nonprofit in 1910. Around 1911 it moved into a building given by Scribner and designed by his brother-in-law Ernest Flagg, modelled on the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. Its first book was a 1912 edition of John Witherspoon's Lectures on Moral Philosophy.
Landmark titles include Albert Einstein's The Meaning of Relativity (1922), his first book published in the United States, and John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944), which helped found game theory. The Press publishes The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (first volume 1950), The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein and the Bollingen Series, which the Bollingen Foundation gave it in 1969.
It has offices in Oxford and Beijing, and Christie Henry, its director since 2017, is the first woman to lead it. Island Press became one of its imprints in January 2026.
We have not yet written the guide to Princeton University Press's first-edition conventions. Until we do, check each book's own page: we list its points where we know them. Know how Princeton University Press marked its firsts? Tell us.
AuthorsSøren Kierkegaard (5)Eric H. Cline (2)Milton Friedman (2)John von Neumann (2)Khushwant Singh (2)Christopher H. Achen (1)Gabriel Almond (1)David W. Anthony (1)Erich Auerbach (1)Louise Barrett (1)
SeriesPrinceton Studies in Political Behavior
Published by Princeton University Press
- 1st Princeton University Press1963 Hardback I own A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, Princeton University Press 1963 Log in to want this
- Princeton University Press1971 Paperback I own A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, Princeton University Press 1971 Log in to want this
Frequently asked questions
How many Princeton University Press books does MyVolumes track?
We track 66 editions published by Princeton University Press, 47 of them first editions, across 63 books.
Where these facts come from
- A History of Princeton University Press, Princeton University Press (press.princeton.edu)
- About Us, Princeton University Press (press.princeton.edu)
- Princeton University Press, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
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