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"with love & admiration": First Edition of Marriage and Morals; Inscribed by Bertrand Russell to his Publisher Horace Liveright
RUSSELL, BERTRAND.
Marriage and Morals.
New York: Horace Liveright 1929.
First edition of this work by Russell, in which he questions the Victorian notions of morality regarding sex and marriage. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to his publisher, “To Horace Liveright from Bertrand Russell with love & admiration.” The recipient, Horace Liveright was an American publisher and stage producer. With Albert Boni, he founded the Modern Library and Boni & Liveright publishers. He published the books of numerous influential American and British authors. In 1917 Liveright founded the Modern Library. It was formed as a reprinting line, publishing inexpensive books from European modernists, while Liveright published the work of contemporary Americans. Liveright published work by T. S. Eliot (The Waste Land), Charles Fort (The Book of the Damned), Theodore Dreiser (An American Tragedy), and Bertrand Russell (Marriage and Morals). The company also published the first books by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Hart Crane, Dorothy Parker, and S. J. Perelman. In very good with light rubbing. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. A significant association.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 54042
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First Edition of Bertrand Russell's Marriage and Morals; Signed by Him
RUSSELL, BERTRAND.
Marriage and Morals.
New York: Horace Liveright 1929.
First edition of this work by Russell, in which he questions the Victorian notions of morality regarding sex and marriage. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Bertrand Russell on the front free endpaper. In near fine condition. An exceptional signed example.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 117490
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First Edition of Bertrand Russell's My Philosophical Development; Signed by Him
RUSSELL, BERTRAND.
My Philosophical Development.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1959.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author in which he summarizes his philosophical beliefs and explains how they changed during his life. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Bertrand Russell on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 117453
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First Edition of Bertrand Russell's The Scientific Outlook; Signed by Him
RUSSELL, BERTRAND.
The Scientific Outlook.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company 1931.
First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Bertrand Russell on the front pastedown. With a note from the recipient that it was signed in 1931. An exceptional example with noted provenance.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 119625
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"Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable": First edition of Bertrand Russell's History of the World in Epitome (For Use in Martian Infant Schools); signed by him
RUSSELL, BERTRAND.
History of the World in Epitome (For Use in Martian Infant Schools).
London: Gaberbocchus Press 1962.
First edition of Russell’s 21-word summary of human history, issued on the occasion of his 90th birthday and written in reaction to the Cuban missile crisis. 16 mo, original wrappers, illustrated by Franciszka Themerson. Signed by the author on the title page. In near fine condition. Rare.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 128355
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First Edition of Bertrand Russell's The Good Citizen's Alphabet; Inscribed by Him to his lover Rhoda Kellogg
RUSSELL, BERTRAND.
The Good Citizen’s Alphabet.
London: Gaberbocchus Press Limited 1953.
First edition of this playful work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth, with drawings by Franciszka Themerson. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Rhoda Kellogg from Bertrand Russell.” The recipient, Rhoda Kellogg was a notable scholar of early childhood and maintained an extensive collection of children’s artwork. She also had carried on an extra-marital affair with Russell. From Michael D. Stevenson’s “In Solitude I Brood on War”: Bertrand Russell’s 1939 American Lecture Tour”, “Although Russell claimed he possessed no ‘errant philandering impulses’ (Let. 3) and seemed to avoid the sexual entanglements that marked his earlier American tours, he nonetheless met several women with whom he had been sexually intimate including Rhoda Kellogg and Miriam Brudno.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 138589
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First Edition of Russell's The Principles of Mathematics
RUSSELL, BERTRAND.
The Principles of Mathematics. Volume 1.
Cambridge: At the University 1903.
First edition of Russell’s groundbreaking work. Quarto, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. From the library of Brian Anthony Farrell with his ownership signature to the pastedown. Farrell’s work on Freud’s psychoanalytic theories, The Standing of Psychoanalysis, was published by Oxford University Press in 1981. In near fine condition. A nice example with noted provenance.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 53075
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First Edition of Russell's The Principles of Mathematics
RUSSELL, BERTRAND.
The Principles of Mathematics. Volume 1.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1903.
First edition of Russell’s groundbreaking work. Quarto, original cloth. From the library of philosopher Augusta Klein, with her annotations. Augusta Klein was an author and philosopher; co-author with William Ralph Boyce Gibson of The Problem of Logic. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 97331
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"Considered the greatest single contribution to logic to appear since Aristotle": Russell and Whitehead's work Principia Mathematica
RUSSELL, BERTRAND AND ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD.
Principia Mathematica.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1950.
First edition of volume one and second editions of volumes two and three, in the rare dust jackets of Russell and Whitehead’s monumental work. Octavo, three volumes, original cloth. Rare and desirable.
Price: $20,000.00 Item Number: 140610