By Bertrand Russell
London   George Allen & Unwin
7.5" by 5" 125, [3]pp.
Bright copy of this fascinating collection of essays by influential philosopher Russell Bertrand, the first edition.
By Bertrand Russell

1949 Authority and the Individual

London   George Allen & Unwin
7.5" by 5" 125, [3]pp.
Bright copy of this fascinating collection of essays by influential philosopher Russell Bertrand, the first edition.
£65.00
: 0.5kgs / : 849A40

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First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The first edition, first impression of this work. 

Containing lectures delivered by Russell Bertrand for the BBC concerned with the issue of Authority and the Individual.

Providing a fascinating insight into the idea of reconciling public order and private initiative, with interesting psychological discussions, a history of governmental control, and the role of the individual in the history of art, science, religion, and morals. 

Complete with its unclipped dust wrapper. Frontispiece portrait of the author in black and white. 

Featuring Baron de Spon's bookplate to front pastedown. 

Condition

In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities. Dust wrapper very smart, unclipped with minor shelf wear, spine lightly darkened. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean.

Near Fine

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