ID: 1260
Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism.
RUSSELL, Bertrand

Category: First Edition, Politics/Philosophy, Signed

Place/Publisher/Date:
London, Allen & Unwin. 1918.

Description: First edition; 8vo; original cloth boards. Presentation copy from Bertrand Russell to Lady Ottoline Morrell, inscribed 'O.M. from B.R. November 1918'. Russell met Morrell in 1911 and they began a long affair, as the passion in their relationship waned she became a lifelong confidante. During the First World War, Russell engaged in pacifist activities, with the support of Ottoline and her husband the MP Philip Morrell. In 1916 Russell was convicted under the Defence of the Realm Act and he lost his fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was later imprisoned in Brixton for six months. Garsington, the famous home of the Morrells harboured many intellectuals, artists and writers and became a centre for them and particularly Russell to organise and protest against the war. The friendship between Russell and Ottoline was profoundly important to her and Morrell's biographer, Miranda Seymour, thought it to be 'of more importance than any other'. Russell states in the Prefatory Note that 'it has been necessary to complete the writing of it hastily in the last days before a period of imprisonment, and it is hoped that, under these circumstances, the reader will view with a lenient eye such marks of insufficient care as he may discover'. Very good with page edges browned and darkening to spine.

Price £1,500.00