The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell. 1872-1914; 1914-1944; 1944-1967.

First editions, first impressions. Three volumes. 8vo. 230, [2]; 268; 232, pp., photographic frontispiece portraits to each volume with numerous other illustrations throughout. Original burgundy cloth, spines lettered in gilt, dust jackets (discreet book labels to front pastedown of each volume, some trivial wear to extremities, notwithstanding a near fine set). London, George Allen & Unwin. 

First editions of all three volumes of Bertrand Russell's autobiography, "widely, and justly, considered a masterpiece", extracts from which would be "broadcast as radio talks and published as Portraits from Memory in 1956, and three years later Russell published a separate intellectual autobiography, My Philosophical Development" (ODNB).

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