A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (1945) hardcover book

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Bertrand Russell - A History of Western Philosophy and its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1945. First American edition, third printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering. 893 pp. Good condition; no dust jacket. Mild scuffing to joints, edges of boards. Former owner's name sticker on upper forecorner of front free endpaper. General wear/smudge markings along textblock fore-edge. No markings to pages. A small number of sheet gatherings (roughly Pp. 650-712) are bound with paper of very slightly darker complexion than the rest; this as printed, delivered from publisher. A History of Western Philosophy is one of the best, if unabashedly opinionated, single-volume surveys of this vast subject.

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