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Item Details
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| Author: |
Popper, K[arl] R[aymond ] |
| Title: |
The Open Society and Its Enemies |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
George Routledge |
| Date: |
[1945] |
| Item # : |
204804 |
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| Sale Number |
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416 |
| Lot Number |
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138 |
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| Rare Books & Manuscripts |
| Sale Date |
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11/19/2009 |
| Price realized |
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$ 7200 |
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| Description: |
| 2 volumes. Cloth, jackets; custom folding box. First Edition. |
| Rare presentation copy of one of Popper's most influential works, challenging the historicism of Plato, Hegel and Marx. Inscribed to London Times Literary Supplement editor Wickman Steed on the front free endpaper of Vol. I; with a two-page autograph letter signed by Popper, to Steed, responding to a two -page typed letter from Steed to Popper, the carbon of which is present. "Dear Mr. Steed, ...I believe you are right in very point you mention: the book would be better without the encumbrance of the notes, and without ultimately degenerating into what you describe as sparrow shooting... These weaknesses... are, undoubtedly, connected with the fact that I wrote the book in New Zealand, where one easily loses some of one's judgement, at least as far a contemporaries are concerned..." |
| Condition: |
| Jackets with some dust soiling and minor extremity wear; very good or better. |
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