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960831964: William Morrow & Company New York. First edition of Huxley's authoritative report on the rapidly changing political climate of post-colonial East Africa. Octavo original half cloth illustrated with maps and drawings by Jonathan Kingdon. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page "For Joe Ferrier with my best wished Elspeth Huxley." Laid in is the original typed transmittal letter an autograph card and photograph of Huxley; all three signed by her to Ferrier. The recipient Joe Ferrier was a lifelong fan and pen pal of Huxley's. They often exchanged letters books and article clippings between England and the United States. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Harsh-Finegold. Huxley states in the present volume: "Writing about modern Africa is like trying to sketch a galloping horse that is out of sight before you have sharpened your pencil. But it is just because so much is happening - because the scene sparkles with new hopes and plans because nothing is static and nothing seems impossible.'for in truth' as Winston Churchill wrote in 1907 'the problems of East Africa are the problems of the world.'" William Morrow & Company hardcover books
189128414London: Macmillan & Company 1891. First edition. Paper wrappers. Removed from a larger volume lacking rear wrapper front wrapper detached with some minor chips to top edge and joint otherwise contents very good. 128 pp. 12mo. A second edition was published the same year. Criticises William Booth founder of the Salvation Army whose book 'In Darkest England and the Way Out' became a best seller. Huxley felt Booth's schemes were too socialistic. "Mr. Booth's system appears to me and- as I have shown is regarded by Socialists themselves to be mere autocratic Socialism masked by its theological exterior.The most degrading feature of the narrower forms of Christianity of which that professed by Mr. Booth is a notable example is their insistance that the noblest virtues if displayed by those who reject their pitiable formula are as their pet phrase goes "splendid sins." Macmillan & Company unknown books
187738605London: Churchill 1877. Huxley Thomas 1825-95. A manual of the anatomy of invertebrated animals. 8vo. viii 698 2 adverts.pp. Wood-engraved text illustrations. London: Churchill 1877. 172 x 108 mm. partly unopened. Original cloth a bit worn & shaken. Title a bit browned but a very good copy. Ownership inscription opposite title. First Edition. Huxley spent over twenty years writing this textbook on the comparative anatomy of invertebrates the companion to his Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals 1871. Huxley was a gifted teacher as well as scientist and wrote several works intended for student use. Churchill unknown books
1924226812London Chatt & Windus 1924. 1924. First limited special edition. 8vo. 3 page introduction by Aldous Huxley. 1/2 black cloth with printed paper label on the spine over black green pink and white patterned boards uncut and partly unopened. Dust jacket. Very good. 121 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Number 205 of 210 copies printed on Italian handmade paper. Publisher's complementary copy with slip laid in loose from Chatto & Windus April 2 1924. Also laid in loose is a slip that reads: "With J.B. Pinker & Son's Compliments." Printed at the Curwen Press. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. London, Chatt & Windus, 1924. hardcover books
186322664New York: D. Appleton and Company 1863. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's dark brown clothpaper spine label. Very good. 184 pages. 20.5 x 13 cm. Illustrated with text figures. Huxley specialized in comparative anatomy and was a enthusiastic supporter of Charles Darwin. His topic here amplifies his faith in Darwin he was a pall bearer at his funeral and presents evidence for the evolution of man and apes from a common ancestor: the first book devoted to the topic of human evolution. Ex-library: spine marked and paper label front cover pastedown the two markings. Back strip rubbed head and foot. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
B19734-FChatto and Windus. Collectible - Good. 1923 assumed 1st NAP orange cloth spine ends and corners bumped foxing to eps interior is clean and sound dust jacket is darkened edgeworn torn and chipped. Chatto and Windus hardcover books
1927173439London: Chatto & Windus 1927. Hardcover. VG- light fading to boards along edges and spine. spine lettering is also faded. Marbled boards with maroon cloth spine and gilt stamped spine lettering. xix 299 pp. Signed and numbered by Aldous Huxley. Number 104 of 260 copies. Contents: Introduction -- The idea of equality -- Varieties of intelligence -- Education -- Political democracy -- The essence of religion -- A note on dogma -- The substitutes for religion -- Personality and the discontinuity of the mind -- A note on ideals -- A note on eugenics -- Comfort. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
191831328Oxford: Blackwell 1918. First edition. Original wrappers edges rubbed internally fine and unopened. With the bookplate of Montgomery Evans II. From Ira Gershwin's library with posthumous bookplate. <br/><br/> Blackwell unknown books
191831327Oxford: Blackwell 1918. First edition. Original wrappers edges rubbed internally fine and unopened. From Ira Gershwin's library with posthumous bookplate. <br/><br/> Blackwell unknown books
192918630London: The Fleuron Ltd 1929. First Limited Edition. Octavo. Original brown buckram stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 64pp. Number 30 of 300 hand-numbered copies printed at the Curwen Press. Stencil-colored text illustrations by Albert Rutherston. Darkened at spine and board edges else a tight Near Fine copy in a later custom linen slipcase. The Fleuron Ltd unknown books
1927WRCLIT38438London: Dulau & Co. Ltd. 1927. Gilt polished buckram t.e.g. Bookplate of John Howell Books else near fine and bright. First edition deluxe issue. One of fifty numbered copies specially printed on Japan vellum specially bound and signed by Huxley and Powys from a total edition of 550. Dulau & Co. Ltd. hardcover books
1949108019Folio. London: Trianon Press 1949. Folio 36 pp. with a frontispiece and 18 plates. Original stiff wrappers with printed label. Plates are loosely inserted into a folded pocket at rear. Some fading wear and discoloration to cover and spine inside front cover has been repaired with linen tape. Plates and pages in fine condition. Inscribed in ink at front by Arnold Fawcus: “ To Dad: With Best Wishes Love Arnold. Nov. 7 1949â€. § One of 1000 unnumbered unsigned trade editions. Of the first printing 212 were signed by the author; 100 copies were reserved for the Trianon Press Cobham Surrey and the Grey Falcon Press Philadelphia; 100 for Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Los Angeles; 12 copies numbered A to L "hors commerce" for the author the publishers and their associates. With a 16-page essay by Huxley and a critical study by Jean Adhemar of the famous fantasy prison etchings by Piranesi which inspired Huxley and Adhemar curator of prints at the BN to write a short history of prisons and criminality and an analysis of the plates. Eshelbach & Shober 50. Trianon Press unknown books
1992040871London: Macmillan Press Limited; New YOrk Stockton Press 1992. 4 vols. lviii 815; vii 747; vii 790; vii 888p. b/w illus. original brown cloth quarto format. Macmillan Press Limited; New YOrk, Stockton Press unknown books
1929WN3583Garden City N.Y.: Doubleday Doran & Company 1929. Number 222 of 361 copies signed by Huxley beneath the limitation. Some sunning on spine and on cover edges. Black morocco titling piece gilt a little chipped. . Signed by Author. Limited/Numbered. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Eric Gill. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Doubleday, Doran & Company Hardcover books
192858996London: Chatto & Windus 1928. First trade edition. 601 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Orange cloth. Fine in slightly chipped at corner cream unclipped dust jacket. First trade edition. 601 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1947WRCLIT75443Universal City: Universal Studios / National Screen Service 1947. Eight 11 x 14" full color lobby cards. NSS blindstamp in lower extreme corner of each card three short strips of paper tape not as repairs on verso of title card upper right blank margin of title card has a short nick and some creasing but otherwise a very good or better bright set. A complete set of the lobby cards issued to promote US distribution of Huxley's own adaptation to the screen of his 1922 story "The Giaconda Smile." Zoltan Korda directed stars Charles Boyer Ann Blyth Jessica Tandy and Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Huxley's name is prominently incorporated in each of the cards. BROMER D3. Universal Studios / National Screen Service unknown books
1927140939853London: Oxford University Press 1927. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. xvi 344 pp. with fold-out chart. Publisher's navy cloth lettered in gilt. A hint of rubbing to gilt at foot faint stain droplets to rear board else Fine. A very neat clean copy of a biology textbook by two eminent British scientists and philosophers. Uncommon in such nice shape. Oxford University Press unknown books
1926215309London: at the Florence Press. Chatto & Windus 1926. First edition Number 175 of 650 copies signed by the author. viii 257 pp. 1 vols. 4to. New half blue cloth. Fine in Blue cloth slip case. First edition Number 175 of 650 copies signed by the author. viii 257 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Eschelbach & Shober 26; Ransom p. 279 # 19 at the Florence Press. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1926WRCLIT35662London: Florence Press / Chatto & Windus 1926. Cloth and marbled boards. First edition. One of 650 numbered copies signed by the author the entire edition. Spine a bit sunned at head and toe a few foxmarks to fore-edge otherwise a near fine copy though without dust jacket. Florence Press / Chatto & Windus hardcover books
192920614London: The Fleuron Ltd. printed by the Curwen Press 1929. First edition. Number 125 of 300 copies. Drawings by Albert Rutherston stencilled in colors at the Curwen Press. 64 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original brown cloth publishers box. Some light wear to box and binding else a very good copy. First edition. Number 125 of 300 copies. Drawings by Albert Rutherston stencilled in colors at the Curwen Press. 64 pp. 1 vols. 4to. The Fleuron Ltd. [printed by the Curwen Press] unknown books
199206051scsLondon: Macmillan 1992. Four Volumes. Quarto cloth lviii 815 pp viii 747 pp vii 888 pp. Illus. maps. Former-owner embossed stamps; otherwise Fine. Macmillan, [1992]. Four Volumes. hardcover books
194029865New York: Harper & Brothers 1940. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Top edges of pages and a portion of front flyleaf spotted. Else near fine in bright dust jacket price-clipped. Published in the UK as Death of an Aryan. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers unknown books
1878216274New York: Appleton 1878. hardcover. very good. Illustrated. 8vo 3/4 tan calf marbled boards marbled edges ornately gilt spine with red and green leather labels. New York: Appleton 1878. Very good .<br/><br/> A textbook which is a little masterpiece of its kind. Huxley never accepted without qualification the Darwinian principle. He thought "transmutation may take place without transition" and thereby anticipated the findings of modern research. He liberated the English anatomical school from the deductive method and sounded the keynote of the social medicine of the future. - Garrison-Morton 338; Casey Wood p. 396.<br/><br/> Appleton unknown books
18346En.d. First Edition. Original 3 page typescript of a treatment scenario for Aldous Huxley’s novel ‘Point Counter Point’ by Arthur Sheekman. With notations in pencil and ink in Mr. Sheekman’s hand. Arthur Sheekman 1901 - 1978 started out as a newspaper columnist and drama critic with the ‘Manhattan Newspaper’ before turning his sights to a career in the Hollywood film industry. In 1931 he worked as a scenarist for the classic Marx Brothers film ‘Monkey Business’ which was the beginning of Sheekman’s close personal and professional relationship with Groucho Marx. Sheekman also worked as a script writer on the Marx Brothers film ‘Duck Soup’ and on Groucho and Chico’s radio series ‘Flywheel Shyster and Flywheel’. Other Sheekman film projects include the 1933 Eddie Cantor musical ‘Roman Scandals’ where he met his future bride the lovely actress Gloria Stuart Danny Kaye’s ‘Wonder Man’ 1945 Bing Crosby’s ‘Welcome Stranger’ 1947 and ‘Mr. Music’ 1950 Joe E. Brown’s ‘The Gladiator’ 1938 ‘Call Me Madam’ 1953 and Daniel Mann’s ‘Ada’ 1961. unknown books
19319027001London: Chatto & Windus 1931. 1st . Hardcover. Fine. One of 160 numbered copies signed by Huxley. Shows wear and rubbing at the extremities but still a very good copy. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
