THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BERTRAND RUSSELL

McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1967, 1^st Canadian ed.  Hard cover, 230 pages including Index.  Blue cloth with faded gold lettering on spine; light edge wear; binding sound with headbands.  Price-clipped dust jacket shows some edge and cover wear, had been folded and laid in book, short edge tears, some repaired on verso.  Decorative endpapers; prior owners stamp on half-title page; remainder of interior clean and unmarked; black & white photo plates; newspaper clippings laid in.  ‘Among the towering intellectual and humanitarian figures of this century – Freud, Einstein, Schweitzer, Shaw – only Russell has undertaken to tell the story of his life.  Brilliantly written, emotionally charged, witty, historically evocative, this book takes Bertrand Russell through his forty-second year.  It is one of the great autobiographies in the English language, a startlingly candid personal narratives that deserves to be placed beside the Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.’ (from front flap)