A History of Western Philosophy and Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. RUSSELL (Bertrand).

First UK edition. 8vo. 916 pp. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in yellow on brown ground, dust jacket (early ownership inscription in blue ink to front free endpaper, small amount of faint spotting to edges of text-block, contents generally unmarked; jacket worn and slightly creased with various nicks and minor chipping to extremities, rear panel rather browned and dust-marked, notwithstanding a very good copy overall). London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd. One of Russell's most influential and well-known works, charting the development of Western philosophy from the Pre-Socratics onwards, concluding with a statement of Russell?s own brand of Logical Positivism. Russell?s analysis is somewhat Janus-faced in its focus, being in part a comprehensive introduction to philosophy and at once a more social history of Western culture itself, an ambiguity for which the book would attract criticism from some quarters. The dust jackets were printed, in accordance with Book Production War Economy Standards, on the backs of surplus military maps, with the copy presented here showing part of German city Mönchengladbach.