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AYER, Sir Alfred Jules.
Part of My Life.
London, Collins, 1977.
The book deals with the first 30-years of Ayer's life, ending with his return following the war to Oxford as a Fellow of Wadham College in 1946 and his appointment as a Professor at University College, London. It contains valuable insight into Ayer's years as an undergraduate and young don at Christ Church, Oxford, and his friendships with the philosopher Bertrand Russell, E.E. Cummings, George Orwell, and Isaiah Berlin amongst others.
First edition; 8vo (23.5 x 15.5 cm); author's signed presentation inscription in pen to front free endpaper, photographic plates, loose newspaper clipping in Mylar sleeve; publisher's ochre cloth, spine lettered in silver, unclipped typographic dustjacket lettered in gold on black ground, closed tear to upper panel, lower portion of spine slightly chipped, very good; 318pp.
Stock code 121539
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