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58p. Printed insert from the Author. 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, stained. Reminiscences of Lister's important discovery of "the Antiseptic System of Surgery." The lecture was first delivered in 1900, and published in the BMJ and The Lancet. This version has a corrected text. Lefanu 107. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! MED 1
8vo., boards gilt, cloth back gilt, uncut, cancelled stamp on title else a very good copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 550 COPIES
8vo., First Edition; blue-green cloth, gilt back, blue top (mildly faded), uncut, covers very faintly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper.
2 vols., roy. 8vo., Second Impression, with 2 fine portrait frontispieces toned in sepia (original tissue guards present), 9 plates (original tissue guards present where called for) and an illustration in the text, neat contemporary signature on blank preliminary of first volume; original burgundy cloth, gilt back, uncut, backstrips faded (but all lettering just legible), backstrips slightly pulled at heads else a very good, crisp, clean set. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end of both volumes. Sold from an institution with its bookplates on front paste-downs and front free endpapers, and small blind stamp on titles. Published a month after the first edition.
8vo., Second Impression, free endpapers lightly browned; original burgundy cloth, gilt back, uncut, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. With publisher's advertisement leaf at end. Collects eleven essays relating to evolution, the 'Origin' and the aftermath, by one of Darwin's closest friends and staunchest supporters. Volume two of Huxley's 'Collected Essays' but complete in itself. First published in the previous year. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Of the original print run of 5,899 copies, 2000 were sold to Westlands Sundries of Nairobi and bear its imprint on title and dustwrapper. SCARCE. See Cross & Perkin A46a.
Paris, Librairie Stock, Delamain et Boutelleau, Le Cabinet Cosmopolite, N° 61, 1931. In-8, broché, 258 pp., couverture imprimée. (Masereel). Edition originale de la traduction française. Un des exemplaires numérotés sur Alfa satiné, bel exemplaire.
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispieces and 31 plates on 18, tops faintly dust-soiled; blue cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in price-clipped dustwrapper. The set comprises: Volume I: 1894-1939 (1973); Vol. II: 1939-1963 (1974). Bright set of the standard biography.
8vo., Second Edition, Ninth Thousand, with a double-page coloured map as frontispiece, a coloured plate, 2 coloured maps (one double-page; one full-page) and 122 engraved illustrations in the text, neat contemporary inscription on half-title; original red cloth, upper board framed, blocked and lettered in blind, gilt back, yellow endpapers, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), case a little shaken else a very good, clean copy. First published in 1877, this is a systematic approach to natural science presented with characteristic clarity by 'Darwin's Bulldog'. Freeman, 1866 (recording the first edition).
307p. 12mo. Original full cloth binding decorated in green and pink. Sun Dial Library. Crome Yellow is the first novel by British author Aldous Huxley, first published in 1921. Here Huxley satirises the fads and fashions of the time. It is the story of a house party at Crome, a parodic version of Garsington Manor, home of Lady Ottoline Morrell, a house where authors such as Huxley and T. S. Eliot used to gather and write. There is a brief pre-figuring of Huxley's great later novel, Brave New World. OCC 4
pp. xix, 384 + 5 Full page color plates. Numerous text drawings and charts. XLib. XLib stamps embossed in blind on title page, page 51 and page 377. One page loose. XLib stamps on all edges. Small 8vo. Original full purple cloth binding, decorated in black and embossed in blind. Head and tail of spine worn with small loss at spine and rear board. XLib call marks on spine. Hardbound. Very good. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN5 BOX 6
Book is in excellent condition with bright yellow cloth HB covers Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows 2" tear at top, chipping at edges and corner wear, now wrapped in protective clear cover. 149 pages, publisher's page shows no additional printings. Aldous Huxley, who had become devoted to Vedanta and meditation upon migrating to America in 1937, introduced Isherwood to the spiritual philosophy, bringing him to the Vedanta Society of Southern California. Isherwood became so immersed in the foundational texts that he produced no significant writing between 1939 and 1945, and for the rest of his life, he collaborated on translations of the scriptures. Isherwood became an American citizen in 1946. He first considered becoming a citizen in 1945, but was hesitant about taking an oath stating he would defend the country. The following year, he replied honestly and said he would accept non-combatant duties. Upon settling in the United States, Isherwood befriended US-based writers. One of his new acquaintances was Truman Capote, who was influenced by Berlin Stories to the point that his character Holly Golightly is reminiscent of Isherwood's Sally Bowles. Around this time, Isherwood began living with photographer Bill Caskey, and together they traveled to South America. He narrated his experiences in the book The Condor and the Crows (1949), for which Caskey supplied photographies. Then, on Valentine?s Day 1953, he met the then-teenage Don Bachardy. Isherwood was 48 at the time. Their pairing raised some eyebrows, and Bachardy was regarded in some circles as ?a sort of child prostitute,? but they succeeded in becoming a well regarded couple in Southern California and their partnership lasted until the author's death. Bachardy eventually became a successful visual artist in his own right. In the early phases of the relationship, Bachardy typed out The World in the Evening, which was published in 1954. Isherwood's 1964 novel, A Single Man, depicted a day in the life of George, a gay university professor who taught at a Los Angeles University, and was made into a movie by Tom Ford in 2009. (Lifted from thoughtco.com)
8vo., small neat signature on front free endpaper; plum cloth, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. Published as Collected Essays Vol. IX. Collects five major essays written between 1886 and 1894.
Book shows very light wear to covers with a little edge wear. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 120 pages with occasional b&w photos. William Burroughs was a big fan of this device, cover shows him staring into it.
562 pages including index. Contents include: Introduction; The facts of population growth; Social and political analysis; Regional statements; Biology and population; Action Programs; The Use of World Resources. With introductory contributions from Earl Bertrand Russell and Sir Julian Huxley. Brilliant gilt lettering upon navy blue cloth-covered boards. Book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket, now in mylar. Lovely copy overall. Book
254pp., 30cm., br., texte en français, Dissertation de doctorat (Université Catholique de Louvain, Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres), cachet au verso de la p.d.t., peu d'annotations, sinon en bon état, poids: 1.3kg., M109503
Paris, Librairie Plon, " Originales ", 15 mai 1946. In-8, broché, non coupé, couverture illustrée en couleurs et rempliée, 329 pp. Edition originale. Un des 1.000 exemplaires numérotés sur papier "Surfine" des Papeteries Johannot, seul tirage en grand papier avec 100 hors commerce. Bel exemplaire.
3 vols., 8vo., Second Edition, with 3 portrait frontispieces in photogravure (all original tissue guards present), neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper of first volume; red cloth, gilt backs, uncut, boards of first volume lightly age-marked at fore-edge only, else a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue at end of third volume. Bright copy of the standard life and letters of 'Darwin's bulldog'. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. First published in 1902.
8vo., First Edition, with fine portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, and numerous plates; brown cloth, upper board lettered and blocked in gilt, gilt back, upper hinge tender (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, moderately age-soiled dustwrapper, the latter chipped (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Roberts A61b.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece map and numerous plates; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Second edition of a Kenyan classic first issued in 1957. Huxley adds a frank and insightful Preface. Astonishingly, not recorded by Cross & Perkin.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Huxley compiles a fascinating selection of letters writen by her mother, Nellie Grant. The letters cover the period from immeditely before the Great War to the 1960s. Cross & Perkin A42.
2 vols., 8vo., Third Impression, with portrait frontispieces (original tissue guards present), plates, and illustrations and facsimiles in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original burgundy cloth, gilt backs, uncut, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue at end of each volume. Published a month after the first edition. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Articles include: Reducing the Hazards of Being Born; Fort Hood - Sparta Goes Suburban; An African Student in China; My Poetic Career in Vermont Politics; Columbia's Unorthodox Seminars; What is a Jew?; J.F.K. - Portrait of a President; What Psychiatry can and cannot do; Second Thoughts on the Religious Revival; Small Rebellion in Miami; Why Nobody Can't Write no good; Los Angeles' Cultural Curcus; A Draftee's Diary from the Mississippi Front; Harold Wilson's Britain; Arms and the Big Money Men; Attack on Poverty; The Uncompleted Man; The Strange Twilight of Harry Bridges; Every Artist needs a hard-boiled patron; Italy's Forgotten City; Crime and Punishment - special supplement; Oswald in Moscow; JFK's voyage of discovery; If I were a company President; New Jersey's search for identity; Give slum children a chance; The Jews in Germany Today; Aldous Huxley in California; A New Kind of National Election; The Quickening War against Viruses; The Scotch in Canada; Miami Notebook - Cassius Clay and Malcolm X; The Psychiatrist in the Looking Glass; A Negro Governor for Massachusetts; What's to Become of Architecture; Why Labor Lost the Intellectuals. Light wear. Binding tight. Few library markings. Book
2 vols., 8vo., Third Impression thus, with 2 portrait frontispieces, map in the text and 4 large folding maps; green cloth, gilt backs, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly age-marked dustwrapper. The set comprises: Vol. I: 1870-1914; Vol. II: 1914-1931. Huxley's first published work is a classic of Kenyan, indeed of East African, history. First issued by Macmillan in 1935, it was an immediate success - the 'Kenya Weekly News' urged its readers to buy the book 'even though it costs the equivalent of 8 sacks of maize'. It was re-issued by Chatto & Windus in 1953 and then again in 1968 with an important new Preface. This is the third impression thus. SCARCE IN ANY IMPRESSION, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. See Cross & Perkin A1(d).
323 pages. Index. Map endpapers. Many reproductions of archival black and white photos. Includes many local familiy histories. Unmarked with moderate wear to pale orange-coloured boards. Binding intact. A sound copy of this wonderful genealogical reference. Book
