RUSSELL, Bertrand (1872-1970). Satan in the Suburbs & Other Stories, London, 1953, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION of the author's first collection of short stories. With 4 other books by Russell and one by W. H. Auden, FIRST EDITIONS. (6)

RUSSELL, Bertrand (1872-1970).  Satan in the Suburbs and Other Stories. London: The Bodley Head, 1953. 8vo (200 x 130mm). Half title, illustrations by Asgeir Scott, one-page of publisher's advertisements at the end (very lightly browned at margins). Original black cloth, the dust-jacket with price of 9s 6d unclipped (the jacket with some fraying to the foot of the backstrip). FIRST EDITION of the author's first collection of short stories. "Bertrand Russell is a singular phenomenon in the collecting world, in that although a philosopher and a mathematician, he is collected because he is literary. Not that he concerned himself primarily with literature (although his essays as well as his rare forays into the short story are damnably good) ..." (Joseph Connolly Modern First Editions). Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1950. Barron Fantasy Literature 3-315. With 5 other books, 4 of which by Bertrand Russell, namely Marriage and Morals (London, 1929, original dark blue cloth, without the dust-jacket), Education and the Social Order (London, 1932, spotted, original dark blue cloth, dust-jacket, jacket worn with loss), Human Society in Ethics and Politics (London, 1954, original green cloth, dust-jacket) and Nightmares of Eminent Persons and Other Stories (London, 1954, illustrations by Charles Stewart, original black cloth, dust-jacket, jacket frayed with slight loss), all FIRST EDITIONS; and with W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety. A Baroque Eclogue (London, Faber and Faber, 1948, 8vo, original mustard yellow buckram, dust-jacket, FIRST U.K. EDITION). (6)