The Impact of Science on Society.

First edition of Bertrand Russell's The Impact of Science on Society, a book published on his 80th birthday and based off his broadcast lectures 'Living in an Atomic Age'. Written with characteristic irony, Russell considers how technological advances could bring prosperity to all.

First edition; 8vo (19 x 13.5 cm); blindstamp to title-page, foxing predominantly affecting preliminary and terminal leaves, 4 pp of publisher's ads to rear; publisher's red cloth, spine lettered in silver, head of spine bumped, boards lightly marked, red topstain, other edges spotted, in the price-clipped pictorial dust jacket, edges with some nicks and creasing, head of spine chipped, some foxing; 140, [4] pp.