Nightmares of Eminent Persons and Other Stories by Russell, Bertrand

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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955. 177pp, illus., corners bumped, some shelfwear.. Hard Cover. Good +/Good +. Illus. by Charles W. Stewart.

Simon & Schuster (Touchstone Book). hardcover. Good. 8x6x1. Order today-sent today with tracking number, M-F*. Still attractive but showing some wear: some abrasion to flats and edges, bumped corners with a bit of lifting. Text is clean and solid. We protect your purchase with damage-resistant double-layer bubble-wrap packaging where possible. Your purchase helps fund small charities in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana. *Our delivery standard: order received by 2PM Eastern US time goes out by 4:30 PM M-F.

Simon & Schuster (Touchstone Book), 1955-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x6x1. [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] VG+. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Jacket rubbed. Clean, unmarked pages. 177 pages. <br> "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of… Read More

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1955. Orange boards and black cloth back. Spot on spine, else VG in VG- dj (hole in spine). 8vo. illustrated by Charles W. Stewart. 1st printing so stated

Softcover. Several signs of previous ownership. Some creasing to cover and spine. Stain on back cover. Excellent reading copy. Pages clean with no writing. Wearing book with mild dirt or some staining, mostly on the edges of pages. A collection of thirteen satirical stories, moral fables for the mid-twentieth century. They are devastating in their impact, far-ranging in their fantasy, unswerving in their devotion to reason. Lord Russell called them "Signposts to Sanity" in his introduciton. Lord Russell gives a new twist to the classical device of placing plausible people in improbably situations - in this case their nightmares - which are both timely and timeless , illustrating universal follies and obsessions. 1954. T6.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. First Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 177pgs, cover slightly bowed, slight shelfwear, nice copy in mylar

NY:: Simon and Schuster,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1955. Hardcover. B002BGAW0E . Illustrated by Charles W. Stewart. First printing. Impression from a removed book-plate on front paste-down, else very good in a very good (minor edge wear with a few small chips) dust jacket. .

NY: Simon and Schuster, 1955.. Very Good in Very Good Minus Dust Jacket with minor chips and edge wear. . Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition.. 1955.

The Bodley Head. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. Reprint. Dust jacket chipped along edges. Spine slanted. (short stories)