Notebooks 1914 - 1916 , Ludwig Wittgenstein

Published by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1961, hardcover, 131 pages, English/ German text, no dustjacket or front blank endpaper, some marks to cloth covers & inside surface of boards, otherwise condition: good.

Edited by G. E. M. Anscombe and G. H. von Wright. Translated by G. E. M. Anscombe, one of his best and most devoted students (original German text on the versos, English translation on the rectos).

The Notebooks is an important collection of Wittgenstein's unpublished writings and contains his earliest surviving philosophical work (Notes on Logic, dictated to Russell in 1913) as well his notes dictated to G. E. Moore in 1914. The volume collects the only surviving notebooks of Wittgenstein during the period in which he was working on the Tractatus, and his earliest surviving philosophical work.