81 BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 89RAWLS, John. “Justice as Fairness.” REPRINTED FROM: The Philosophical Review, Volume LXVII, Number 2, pp. 16494. WITH: Typescript signed with annotation [“Justice as Reciprocity”]. Bruges, Belgium, circa 1958. Octavo, staple-bound as issued, original cream self-wrappers; pp. 30. WITH: Folio (8-1/2 by 11 inches), stapled-bound as issued, original cream self-wrappers; pp. 28. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $18,500 First Separate Edition Of Rawls’ “Justice As Fairness,” With A Typescript Of His Later “Justice As Reciprocity,” Signed By Rawls And With An Annotation In His Hand First separate edition of Rawls’ landmark paper on the relationship between justice and fairness, accompanied by a typescript of his expanded and retitled version of the same paper, signed on the first page by Rawls and with an annotation in his hand reading: “* Longer Version of ‘Justice as Fairness’ Phil Rev Apr 1958.” “Justice as fairness is Rawls’s theory of justice for a liberal society. As a member of the family of liberal political conceptions of justice it provides a framework for the legitimate use of political power. Yet legitimacy is only the minimal standard of moral acceptability; a political order can be legitimate without being just. Justice sets the maximal standard: the arrangement of social institutions that is morally best” (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). This early paper marks the moment that Rawls fully elaborated his theory. While he had presented an abbreviated version with the same title—but just half the length—at a symposium of the American Philosophical Association in 1957 and subsequently published that lecture in the Journal of Philosophy, this version provides a more complete analysis of the emerging concept. The offprint is accompanied by a typescript of “Justice as Reciprocity,” an expanded version of “Justice as Fairness.” Though written in 1958, “Justice as Reciprocity” did not appear in print until 1971, the same year A Theory of Justice came out. Scattered marginal pencil markings and editorial annotations to typescript not in Rawls’ hand. Offprint very nearly fine, slight soiling to front and rear pages of near-fine typescript. An exceptional signed and inscribed set. “It might seem at first sight that the concepts of justice and fairness are the same, and that there is no reason to distinguish between them…”
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