[ Pamphlets, two inscribed, one with some annotation by him ] "The Silence in Russian Culture"; "John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life"; "Herder and the Enlightenment"; "Sir Isaiah Berlin Eightieth Birthday Concert"

Author: 
Isaiah Berlin [ James Joll, historian and Soviet spy, Anthony Blunt's Good Samaritan ]
Publication details: 
1957; 1959; 1965; [1989].
£180.00
SKU: 17359

1. "The Silence in Russian Culture", reprinted from Foreign Affairs (October 1957), pamphlet, printed paper wraps, 24pp., cr. 8vo, edges sunned, good, NOT signed or annotated, but apparently scarce; 2. "John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life", pamphlet (Robert Waley Cohen Memorial Lecture, 1959), buff printed paper wraps, 34pp, 8vo, front cover INSCRIBED J.J. fm I.B. ]JJ = James Joll, historian, notorious for sheltering the Fourth Man, Sir Anthony Blunt, Soviet spy] "Herder and the Enlightenment", (reprinted from Earl R. Wasserman (ed.), "Aspects of the Eighteenth Century", 1965, pp.45 [inc. title] - 104, no wraps, stapled, final leaf detached, sl. chipped and edges sunned, mainly fair, INSCRIBED on small label affixed to title, "James [Joll] fm Isaiah"; "Sir Isaiah Berlin Eightieth Birthday Concert" (Royal Festival Hall, [1989]), programmes, printed paper wraps, not paginated, 8vo, performers include Brendel [presumably from James Joll's accumulation). "John Stuart Mill" is lightly corrected by Berlin, mostly very minor chages (pp.7, 8, 17, 25) but slightly more substantially as follows: p.21 "Helegian" to "Hegelian"; p.24 "guiding to "grinding"; p.30 adding "Newman" to a list comprising "Marx, Carlyle, Dostoevsky". Four items,