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193058799London: Chatto & Windus 1930. First edition. 8vo. 6 323 1 pp. With the bookplate of Dennis Wheatley British author of thrillers and occult novels on the front pastedown. Very good copy with a nice association. Red cloth gilt spine title printed dust jacket rubbed head of spine a little clipped. #5961. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
09139Meriden CT 1978: Gotham Book Mart. Fine. Octavo 14 pages stiff green wrappers with paper label on front panel. One of 150 copies; a facsimile edition of the Holywell Press edition of 1917. As issued without duat jacket. A fine copy internally clean and bright. <br/><br/> Gotham Book Mart unknown books
193153491London: Chatto & Windus 1931. First Trade Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19.25cm; blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; grey topstain; dustjacket; vi2693pp. Light wear to spine ends touch of dust-soil to upper oard edges with scattered foxing to right edge of textblock; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 7s.6d. net edgeworn and sunned with a few tiny nicks and tears a spot of soil and two faint cup rings to front panel; Very Good only. Collection of 25 essays. BROMER A28.2. Chatto & Windus unknown books
3664NY APPLETON 1925. FINE. NY, APPLETON, 1925 unknown books
09138New York 1967: Random House. First American Edition. Near Fine. Barbara Cooney. Octavo unpaginated tan pictorial boards; library binding. A lovely copy internally clean and bright with no markings of any kind. As issued without dust jacket. <br/><br/> Random House hardcover books
1918WRCLIT21596Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1918. Decorated wrappers paper label. Spine rubbed and chafed some scattered foxing otherwise a good copy. First edition of Huxley's second substantial collection. The edition purportedly consisted of 250 copies but experience would easily suggest it likely that a larger edition was printed. Basil Blackwell unknown books
19635983Cambridge: The Psychedelic Review 1963. First edition. Very Good/The second number of the quarterly journal of psychedelic experience led by the school of Timothy Leary Richard Alpert and their peers. Includes articles on botanical sources of New World narcotics and on the treatment of alcoholism with psychedelic drugs. 23 cm; 260 pages. Printed wraps slightly discolored with a nick on the joint. Else fine. The Psychedelic Review paperback books
19182222305<p>First edition. Octavo. Original green and white floral decorated wrappers spine label lacking. No dust jacket. Enclosed in green morocco slipcase. Good. 49 pages and two pages of ads. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p><b>Eschelbach 19.</b></p><p><b>Bromer A3.</b></p> B. H. Blackwell paperback books
19749025837Avon Connecticut: Limited Editions Club. 1974. Hardcover. Fine condition. With author's foreword and a new introduction by Ashley Montague. Illustratred with gravures by Mara McAfee.Bound in publisher's original shiny blue composite with front cover and spine titled in a blod blue typeface with two orange heliocopter ornaments on the front cover. In publisher's original slipcase wrapped in orange paper with minor soiling and fading. One of 2000 numbered copies signed by the artist. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club. hardcover books
19089027070London: Macmillan 1908. Hardcover. Fine. Henrietta A. Huxley's selections from the essays letters and memoirs of T. H. Huxley. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in black morocco with spine elaborately stamped in gilt with five raised bands boards ruled in gilt inner dentelles gilt edges gilt marbled endpapers. 6 x 4 inches. 200 pages. <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover books
1936007185Chatto & Windus 1936. Book. Fine. Cloth. First English Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy.True First Edition.Near fine Jacket.Faded At Spine.Terrific Copy. Chatto & Windus Hardcover books
1930006408Chatto and Windus 1930. Book. Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in like jacket.Fresh Copy. Rare in this condition. "First Published 1930 2sNet. on flap. Excellent Copy. Chatto and Windus Hardcover books
1929WRCLIT33245New York & London: Fountain Press/Chatto & Windus 1929. Cloth and boards. Pictorial title vignette. First edition. One of 692 numbered copies signed by the author. Edges slightly dusty else fine in remnants of glassine dust jacket. Fountain Press/Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1959153762London: Chatto & Windus 1959. Octavo pp. 1-6 7-8 9-10 11-163 164 boards. First British edition. "Essay arguing that the extrapolation of 1932 Huxley was coming true faster than he had originally thought." - Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 pp. 269-270. Early owner's signature dated 1959 on front free endpaper. Endpapers a bit tanned a nearly fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with a couple of tiny edge tears and light dust soiling to rear panel. A nice copy. #153762 Chatto & Windus unknown books
1930WRCLIT82491New York & London: Fountain Press / Chatto & Windus 1930. Large octavo. Cloth. First edition. One of 842 numbered copies signed by the author. Collector's bookplate on front pastedown crown of spine a bit soft some dulling and ringmarks to upper board; a sound copy internally very good or better. Fountain Press / Chatto & Windus hardcover books
19363940New York: Harper & Brothers 1936. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Octavo. Review Copy with Harper Brothers card laid in. 473pp. Bound in original printed red white and gold wrappers gray glitter endpapers. A very good copy. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers paperback books
1936WRCLIT33239London: Chatto & Windus 1936. Cloth. First edition trade issue. Small bookseller's label light foxing to bottom edge else a brilliant fine copy in a bright unfaded dust jacket wounded by a long snagged scratch across the front panel and an inner tape repair. A very nice copy. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
3660LONDON CHATTO 1924. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. LONDON, CHATTO, 1924 unknown books
19252393Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1925. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. Author John Bowles copy with his name and date on front free endpaper. 63pp Bound in decorative paper covered boards paper spine label couple of chips to spine; light foxing on some leaves. In all a very good copy. <br/><br/> Basil Blackwell hardcover books
1918WRCLIT37762Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1918. Decorated wrappers paper label. Spine worn and a bit frayed label darkened otherwise a good copy with the bookplate of multiple Pulitzer winner Paul Horgan. First edition of Huxley's second substantial collection. While Eschelbach & Shober recorded the edition consisted of 250 copies it is now reported by Bromer & Stuble to have consisted of 750 copies a number which is far more consistent with the frequency with which this title turns up. BROMER A3. E &S 19. Basil Blackwell unknown books
187738604New York: Appleton 1877. Huxley Thomas 1825-95. American addresses with a lecture on the study of biology. 12mo. 6 164pp. Text wood-engravings some after Othniel C. Marsh 1831-99. New York: Appleton 1877. 196 x 124 mm. Original green cloth slightly worn. Fine copy. First American Edition published simultaneously with the London edition. "The first British book to make the fossil case for evolution" Desmond Huxley p. 484. Huxley toured America in 1876 capping his visit with a series of lectures on evolution delivered in New York City. These were published the following year in both England and America with illustrations taken from fossil drawings by American paleontologist O. C. Marsh whose "classifications and descriptions of extinct vertebrates were major contributions to knowledge of evolution" DSB. 38604. Appleton unknown books
188540015London: Macmillan 1885. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. Huxley Thomas Henry 1825-95. Howes George Bond 1853-1905. An atlas of practical elementary biology . . . with a preface by Professor Huxley P.R.S. 4to. vii 4 116pp. 24 lithographed plates. London: Macmillan 1885. 295 x 232 mm. Original green cloth stamped in gilt on front cover and spine a little worn and shaken inner hinges weak minor spotting on front cover. Light toning but very good. Ownership signature on front free endpaper. Macmillan unknown books
185920244London: Printed for the Ray Society 1859. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. Folio pp. viii-x 143 blank ff 24 blank; dull green library linen boards with gilt lettering on spine; boards lightly soiled and rubbed; call numbers stamped to heel of spine; library bookplate to pastedown with "Discard" stamp; four-inch tear to fore-edge of half-title leaf; embossed library stamp and pencil annotations to title leaf; embossed library stamp to p. 1; library tickets and pockets to rear endpapers; cellotape repair to top edge of last plate; else a sound ex-library copy. Illustrated with twelve uncolored lithograph plates and accompanying letterpress descriptive text. Cloth. While serving as ship's surgeon aboard the H.M.S. Rattlesnake Huxley 1825-1895 collected and studied specimens of hydrozoas in the waters off Australia New Guinea and Palermo Italy. Through careful dissections and close observation of physical relationships Huxley succeeded in bringing more detailed order to the knowledge of these minute organisms. Printed for the Ray Society unknown books
199945679London: The Royal Horticultural Society 1999. 4 volumes thick 4to; color plates plain text illustrations text in double columns; original green cloth spines stamped in red and gilt; green board slipcase lettered in gilt; about fine. This edition produced by The Folio Society. <br/><br/> The Royal Horticultural Society hardcover books
192830196London: Chatto & Windus 1928. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Some browning to front and rear free endpapers--from reaction to pastedowns. Else a near fine book in a near fine dust jacket slightly tanned at spine with a couple very minor chips to top edge. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
