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195847736New York: Harper & Brothers 1958. Hardcover. Blue cloth spine with gilt lettering and black paper over boards pictorial dust jacket. x 147pp. Very good/very good. Jacket rather age toned especially spine though complete and fairly attractive; front flyleaf ownership signature; small inoffensive toned spot from long-ago newsprint contact on leaver 46-47. A tight and nice first edition of this sequel to Huxley's 1932 dystopian sci-fi classic. Harper & Brothers hardcover
195860024New York: Harper & Brothers 1958. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 22cm; blue-gray paper and black cloth-covered boards with blocked and titled in grey and gilt on spine; dustjacket; x1473pp. Light wear to extremities else a clean very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $3.00 gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn with a few tiny tears and some mild dustiness; Very Good. "Essay arguing that extrapolation of 1932 Huxley was coming true" SARGENT p.132. BROMER A74.2. Harper & Brothers unknown
19301221London: Chatto & Windus 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. pp. 323. 8vo. Lovely red cloth over boards with gilt rules and lettering to spine. Publishers' red topstain untrimmed bottom foredges. Slight sunning and slant to spine light foxing to foredge and endpapers otherwise the contents are clean and free of any markings with tight sound binding. Overall very good. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover
1969602066London: Chatto & Windus 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint. Octavo. 336pp. Ex-library with minimal markings owner name penned on front fly with underlining on a few pages else very good in a very good dust jacket with spine label one-inch tear on spine head. Essays on war religion nationalism and ethics. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1938005924London: Chatto & Windus 1938. Considered by some to be Huxley's greatest novel. First published in 1936; this is a Very Good Plus copy of the Second Impression stated "A New Impression" from two years later. Light orange cloth binding with titling in white on the spine. Clean text; 620 pages. Front paste-down has a small Blackwoods label and a previous-owner bookplate. Light rub to the corners a bit of sun to the top edge. Lacking a dustwrapper. In an archival plastic protector. Second Impression. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Chatto & Windus Hardcover
1920DB5158New York: George H Doran nd1920. hb. Quarter purple cloth over light purple paper covered boards 80pp. Paper title label on front cover and spine. Slight wear to top of spine top corners lightly bumped spine label somewhat browned. No marks in book binding tight. Book condition VG. First American edition lacking the dust jacket. George H Doran hardcover
194850933Beverly Hills: Modern Institute of Art 1948. First edition. Softcover. Very good condition. Octavo. Unpaginated. Original tan stiff wraps with blue green lettering on cover. Catalog for the exhibition Modern Artists in Transition at the Modern Institute of Art from February 13 to March 28 1948. Includes the list of Trustees paintings exhibited and a "Brief Transitional Chronology" for various artists:Georges Braque Marc Chagall Marcel Duchamp Juan Gris Toulouse-Lautrec Fernand Leger and others. illustrated with full page b/w reproductions of thirty-three paintings. Wraps with minor wear but lightly sunned along edges. Modern Institute of Art unknown
1950009875Penguin Books 1950. Soft cover. Near Fine. Soft cover book covers are very good or better age toning to margins and light wear book is near fine name date place on preliminary title page and marginal age-toning; 174 pages; original Penguin No. 748 one of the Penguin Books Essays & Belles Lettres series <br/> <br/> Penguin Books paperback
1968503888Berkeley California: The Hart Press 1968. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Victor Anderson. Sewn printed wrappers. Front cover with faint uneven sunning near fine. Issued as a Christmas greeting with publisher's slip laid in. The Hart Press unknown
2000274918Austin: University of Texas Press 2000. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Edited with an introduction by David Bradshaw and James Sexton. Near fine in lightly worn wrappers. University of Texas Press unknown
19231962London: Chatto & Windus 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth a bit faded endpapers with quite browned. Still a nice square copy in uncommon wrapper some general light wear. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover
195989460New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. c.1959. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition of Aldous Huxley's complex novel which first appeared in 1928 and which presents characters and plots which were quite similar to the author's own life between World Wars I and II. --- In Toledano spine 8 / pale green cloth / gilt titling on green spine & cover blocks / green topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i / verso advertises 388 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1959 though 1928 date appears in book. ML #180.1. --- An about-Near Fine copy: clean tightly-bound bright and lacking apparent damages. Bright price-clipped dust jacket with rubbing to front panel and spine else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; 6 514 8 ads pages . The Modern Library / Random House hardcover
1928032457Chatto & Windus 1928. First Edition.1928. Hardcover lacking dust jacket. 8vo with 601 pages. The book is in good condition with some shelf wear and bumping to edges. Some foxing and toning due to age. Interior is clean and tight. "Huxley's longest novel . more complex and serious than his earlier fiction. In 1998 the Modern Library ranked Point Counter Point 44th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century." Orange cloth/Gold text. . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. 8vo. Literature. Chatto & Windus Hardcover
1928256454New York NY: Doubleday Doran 1928. First American edition. Hardcover. Good-/Missing. Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran and Company 1928. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good minus. No Jacket. Red cloth over boards. Paper label on the spine is sunned and rubbed. Closed tear and fraying at head. Else good minus with boards and edges lightly rubbed. Top edge tinted red. Bookplate. This story of 1920s intellectual life is inspired by classical music employing a large cast of characters who are compared to instruments in an orchestra each playing his separate portion of the larger piece. These characters are based on artists politicians and socialites of the time including D. H. Lawrence Katherine Mansfield Sir Oswald Mosley Nancy Cunard and John Middleton Murray. Philip Quarles Huxleyâ_x0080__x0099_s alter ego in the novel acts as the readerâ_x0080__x0099_s guide speculating upon the actions of the other characters. The novelâ_x0080__x0099_s title Point Counter Point is a reference to the flow of arguments in a debate and of music. Doubleday Doran hardcover
1928COLLECTI005523INEW YORK NY: DOUBLEDAY DORAN & CO INC. VG/NONE. PUB 1928. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. BOOK'S PURPLE CLOTH SPINE PANEL IS LIGHTLY BROWNED WITH THE PAPERSPINE LABEL TANNED. A VERY NICE COPY. AN EXCELLENT COPY WITH NODETERIORATION OF SPINE ENDS OR CORNERS. Keywords: ESSAYS INVISIBLE ABCDEF. DOUBLEDAY DORAN & CO, INC hardcover
1928COLLECTI001692INEW YORK NY: DOUBLEDAY DORAN & CO INC. VG/NONE. 1928. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. BOOK HAS A SHORT TEAR AT THE TOP OF A LIGHTLY FADED SPINE PANEL WITHPAPER SPINE LABEL BROWNED. A NICE COPY. Keywords: ESSAYS INVISIBLE ABCDEF. DOUBLEDAY DORAN & CO, INC hardcover
1965512514Guatemala City: Departamento Editorial "José de Pineda Ibarra" Ministerio de Educación 1965. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Translated with an introduction and notes by Luis Luhán Muñoz. Small octavo. 37pp. Text in Spanish. Illustrated with several halftone photographs. Stapled wrappers. Owner stamp on front cover and partially on top and bottom page edges and tiny distributor label on first page. Wrappers modestly soiled and stapled oxidized very good. Posthumously published. First published as "Religious Practices in Central America" in The Geographic Magazine Vol I No. 6 October 1935 and issued here as Cuadernos del Seminario de Integración Social Guatemalteca Segunda Serie No. 11. One of 3000 copies printed. Departamento Editorial "José de Pineda Ibarra," Ministerio de Educación unknown
193219021London: Macmillan 1932. First Edition First printing. Pamphlet. NEAR-FINE 28 PAGE PAMPHLET WITH SLIGHT FOXING TO CARD COVERS. INTERIOR CLEAN AND TIGHT NO WRITNG MARKS TEARS. Imperial College of Science and Technology Huxley Memorial Lecture 1932. Macmillan unknown
193225482Chatto & Windus London 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Very Good. Dust Jacket spine sunned. Multiple copies available this title. Dust Jacket in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Literature & Literary; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 25482. . Chatto & Windus hardcover
1931379902Garden City: Doubleday Doran and Company 1931. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Owner's name else fine in very good or better spine tanned dustwrapper with small chips at the spine ends. Doubleday, Doran and Company hardcover
1931COLLECTI003408INEW YORK NY: DOUBLEDAY DORAN & CO INC. VG/VG. PUB 1931. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. BOOK IS LIGHTLY RUBBED AT THE CORNERS AND EDGES WITH THE GILT SPINETITLE BARELY VISIBLE. D.J. IS WORN AT THE CORNERS WITH A COUPLE OF TINYCHIPS AT THE TOP OF THE FRONT PANEL SHALLOW CHIPPING AT THE SPINE ENDSRUBBING TO THE VERTICAL FOLDS AND SPINE PANEL SUNNED. A NICE COPY. Keywords: POETRY INVISIBLE ABCDEF. DOUBLEDAY DORAN & CO, INC hardcover
193124162Garden City: Doubleday Doran and Company 1931. First American edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very good in a very good jacket. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, hardcover
1918ABE-1593368613225Blackwell Oxford UK 1918. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. One of an editon of 750 copies. Toned and wear to spine and edges but still very good. Blackwell, Oxford, UK unknown
192422578London: Chatto & Windus 1924. First trade edition. Fine and entirely unopened in jacket with some spotting jacket spine panel darkened. xii 121 pp. small octavo original blue cloth and decorative boards printed paper spine label extra spine label tipped in at rear. <br/><br/>Bromer E7.1.2. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1938378573New York: Willey Book Co 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First edition. 55pp. Illustrated with reproductions six color plates and twenty-four black and white. A note by Jean Videpoche. Contemporary owner's inscription on front fly edges lightly tanned still near fine in a good only albeit scarce dustwrapper with chips and tears along the extremities. Willey Book Co hardcover