[Rarebooks] Wittgenstein's BLUE & BROWN BOOKS

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LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, Preliminary Studies of the 'Philosophical 
Investigations', Generally know as THE BLUE & BROWN BOOKS, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1958. 
Half-title + TP + v-xiv + half-title + [1]-185 + 1 blank leaf, Octavo. 
(Frongia/McGuiness "B.B.B." p. 43.)

$200.

FIRST EDITION.

The third posthumously published book by Wittgenstein, the important Blue & 
Brown Books, which he dictated - in English - as a set of notes to his student 
in 1934-1935. At the time, both books circulated widely in typescript and the 
new ideas contained in them began to create a stir. 

"The Blue Book is clear and lively and is perhaps the beginner's best 
introduction to Wittgenstein. Nevertheless, it is a comparatively superficial work; 
Wittgenstein never regarded it as more than a set of class notes. The Brown 
Book, on the other hand, he regarded for a short time as a draft of something 
that might be published. He worked at a revision but gave it up in 1936 when he 
began to write the Philosophical Investigations." 

Dust jacket sunned and darkened on the spine, the spine of the book itself is 
a bit sunned at top where the dust jacket is frayed and worn. Otherwise, a 
very clean and tight copy. 

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