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split at head and neatly repaired, corners a little rubbed. One or two marginal pencil annotations; still a very good copy. ¶ Blackwell & Ruja (Russell’s introduction) B11.1a; Lapoint, Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Comprehensive Bibliography , p. 4. Ray Monk , Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius , 2012. £6,750 [154777] 178 WODEHOUSE, P. G. The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories. London: Methuen & Co, 1917 THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF BERTIE AND JEEVES First edition of this collection of short stories, containing the first book appearance of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, in the story “Extricating Young Gussie”. It is the scarcest book needed to complete a Jeeves and Wooster collection. Octavo. Original light red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black. Boards marked and rubbed, spine faded, small split to front joint, slightly larger split to back joint. ¶ McIlvaine A21a. £6,000 [153717]
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plagued with errors, to the extent that Wittgenstein told a friend that he regarded it as a “pirated edition” (Monk, p. 205). Wittgenstein corrected the text for this edition, which prints the original German parallel with the English translation by Charles Kay Ogden and Frank Plumpton Ramsey. It was the only philosophical work by Wittgenstein to be published in his lifetime, save for a short lecture printed in the Aristotelian Society journal in 1929. The cornerstone text of Logical Positivism and of the Cambridge school of analytic philosophy, the Tractatus articulates the relationship of language and reality, and defines the limits of science. Now universally recognized as one of the philosophical masterpieces of the 20th century, the work was far from an overnight success. Only some copies of the first edition sheets were bound and issued upon publication. Slow sales of these copies delayed the binding and issue of the remaining sheets, which were instead bound in stages over the next several years, as demand required. These copies had new publisher’s catalogues inserted, distinguishing them from the first issue copies without such catalogues. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Parallel text in German and English. Spine ends restored, joints partially
Small quarto. Original blue canvas boards, spine lettered in gilt, decoration to covers in gilt, top edge trimmed, others uncut. Housed in a custom red cloth chemise and red morocco-backed slipcase. Illustrated title page, frontispiece with tissue guard, and 9 plates. Bookplate of Frederick Walter Fell Clark (1870–1948), J.P. of Glen Caladh. Spine slightly sunned, otherwise bright, extremities rubbed, offsetting and traces of tape removal to free endpapers, else contents clean. A very good copy indeed. ¶ Mason 350; Ray 315A. £4,500 [155201] 177 WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico- Philosophicus. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd, 1922 THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK OF PHILOSOPHY WRITTEN IN THE 20TH CENTURY First edition in English, first issue, without the publisher’s catalogue found in later issues. This also marked the first edition in book form, following initial publication in German the previous year in the journal Annalen der Naturphilosophie . That publication – under the title Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung – was
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