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1996068209New Castle DE: Oak Knoll Press 1996. . Pp. xx188last blank frontispiece portrait text illustrations chronology index; med. 8vo; Oak Knoll Books/St Paul's Bibliographies New Castle & Winchester 1996. First U.S. edition. Winchester Bibliographies of 20th Century Writers series. Oak Knoll Press unknown
1952365971US: Thomas Y Crowell 1952. Thomas Y Crowell 1952 6th Printing Fine/Very Good DJ Author: Lorenze Konrad Z.; Huxley Julian forword. Black cloth pale green lettering and decorative images. Light wear to dust jacket with closed tears protected in clear dust jacket cover. Pos penned inside cover tight bright pages illustrated with line drawings. xxii202 pages. HEAVY ITEM 1.25 Pounds. 6th Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good DJ. No Exp. Thomas Y Crowell Hardcover
1969Q-0674362381Harvard University Press 1969-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Harvard University Press hardcover
1984Q-0002724472Distributed by W. Collins 1984-01-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Distributed by W. Collins paperback
1951986G32Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 1951-1955 . Paperback. Very Good. 7" by 4.5". Not Stated. A fantastic two volume set of esteemed dystopian novels Animal Farm and Brave New World published by Penguin Books. A fantastic two volume set of esteemed dystopian novels published by Penguin Books. Penguins Books revolutionized publishing in the 1930s through their affordable paperbacks allowing for a large audience to enjoy literature.In their original paperback binding this set includes:Brave New WorldWritten by Aldous Huxley first published in 1932 and published by Penguin in 1955. The novel is set in a futuristic world state whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence based social hierarchy. Animal FarmWritten by George Orwell originally published in 1945 and published by Penguin in 1951. The novel is a satirical allegorical dystopian following anthropomorphic farm animals as they rebel against their human farmer hoping to create a society where all animals can be equal. In the original paperback bindings. Externally smart. Rubbing to joints. Sunning to spines. Odd mark and spotting to boards. Shelf wear to extremities most significant to the heads and tails of the spines. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with age toning to edges. Brave New World copy has previously been damp thus causing pages to curve slightly. Very Good Penguin Books paperback
193236703London: Heinemann 1932. xxxiv; 889pp. including index. Introduction by the editor Aldous Huxley. Eighteen plates including two in colour. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine. Light wear to extremities. Front gutter is weak. Cream dustwrapper with red decoration and black lettering. Dustwrapper has not been price clipped. It has small tears to edges and its spine is darkened. It is now in a protective sleeve. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Large Octavo. Heinemann Hardcover
199231815Macmillan 1992. New edition. V.g./No Jackets. Cloth no jackets Generally fine with no inscriptions. The ‘Rolls Royce’ of horticultural reference works. Macmillan hardcover
1932LCB64868London: William Heinemann Ltd. . 1932. First Edition; First Impression. Original cloth boards. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Dust-jacket complete but browned with some creases & small closed tear on rear top corner >1cm . Book corners head & tail of spine gently bumped some small scuffs. Very mild foxing to end-papers. Some small scrapes to fore-edge. ; Original brown cloth boards with gilt lettering & phoenix blind-stamp on cover & spine. Publisher's device embossed on rear RH corner cover. Original illustrated dust-jacket with phoenix motif reapeated in red ink. Photograph plates 18. A revealing selection of D. H. Lawrence’s letters chosen & introduced by Aldous Huxley. Candid passionate & incisive they offer a vivid portrait of Lawrence’s restless mind & the turbulent world that shaped his art. ; 23.5 cm x 16.8 cm x 4.4 cm; xxxiv889 pages . William Heinemann Ltd. hardcover
192801AIR0706.<p>Original cloth lightly spotted on spine corners of upper board knocked binding sound. Top edges of pages dyed orange to match binding. Personal library book plate tipped on on front paste-down. Page edges foxed but text block clean. Unclipped cream-coloured dust-jacket lightly tanned mainly along folds and top edge. 1.5cm tear at head of spine cover minor edge wear it is creased vertically as a result of being folded and used as a bookmark! The first trade edition of Huxley's longest novel a satire with characters based on people he knew including Dorothy Brett Nancy Cunard D.H.Lawrence Katherine Mansfield John Middleton Murry and Lady Ottoline Morell. <strong>Note: </strong>As this is a relatively heavy volume please email first before placing order to obtain an estimate of the postage for your area of residence.</p> Chatto & Windus. hardcover
1946332809New York: International Collectors Library 1946. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Owner name inked on front pastedown. Some margin notes and underlining inked throughout. Foxing throughout text block. Water stain on bottom text block edge. Shelfwear on panel corners and spine crown and heel. International Collectors Library hardcover
1962161390London: Chatto and Windus 1962. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. Owner imprint stamp on FEP. Chatto and Windus hardcover
1932167153London: William Heinemann LTD 1932. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Very good or better in good plus dustwrapper. Chips and rubs on dustwrapper edges spine and corners Ink name on front free endpaper rubs on cloth edges corners and spine sticker on front free endpaper. William Heinemann LTD hardcover
1989Q-1870630483Bloomsbury Books 1989-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Bloomsbury Books hardcover
1961510110Tokyo: Gakuseisha 1961. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition stated "Student Society Edition." 12mo. 248 2 pp. Text in English with notes in Japanese and a English-Japanese glossary by Teiji Kitagawa. Illustrated with author photos. Boards trifle sunned at the spine and edges tiny shallow abrasion on the lower board about fine in a rubbed very good dust jacket with a bit of irregular sunning on the cover. An English-language textbook featuring portions of text from T.S. Eliot George Orwell Aldous Huxley Stephen Spender W. Somerset Maugham and others. With an order form and ad titled "Atom Books by Ready Vocabulary Method" laid in. Uncommon. Gakuseisha hardcover
1945563300Los Angeles: Vendanta Society of Southern California 1945. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 34-64pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Covers with some toning and slightly bumped corners very good. The official magazine of the Vedanta Society of Southern California that attracted the attention of many notable intellectuals of the day including Aldous Huxley W. Somerset Maugham Gerald Heard Alan Watts Arnold Toynbee and Christopher Isherwood who served at different times as managing editor and a member of the editorial advisory board. Contributions to this issue include: "That art Thou II" by Huxley "A Letter" by John van Druten and "Religion and Other-Worldliness" by Swami Prabhavananda. OCLC locates no copies for this year. (Vendanta Society of Southern California) unknown
197448103Avon CT: Limited Editions Club 1974. Very Good . Avon CT: Limited Editions Club 1974. First Thus Limited to 2000 copies signed by the illustrator of which this is no. 1661. Quarto; publisher's glossy pictorial paper-covered boards orange topstain housed in publisher's paper-covered slipcase; xxv1237pp.; ten leaves of plates. Printed out copy of prospectus laid in; lacks member letter. Light rubbing and a few faint scuffs to boards; binding sound; pages unmarked. Slipcase edgeworn with brief exposure to extremities and soiling to spine else sturdy and sound; Very Good or better. Limited Editions Club unknown
19275019<p>First Edition; A Very Good book with mild rubbing and chipping to the spine ends and edges and annotations throughout the text. A handsome copy of this early text on animal biology authored by two of the most important evolutionary biologists of the 20th Century in Haldane and Julian Huxley; a scarce work. Not remaindered not ex-library; will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.</p> Oxford University Press hardcover
194829339New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1948. First edition. A fine copy in a very good to nearly fine dust jacket with moderate shelf wear along the upper and lower edges with two tiny closed tears. 29339. Octavo pp. 1-6 1-205 206: blank 207: colophon 208-210: blank note: last leaf is a blank publisher's blue cloth Harper's device stamped in light blue on front panel spine panel stamped in light blue and gold fore-edge untrimmed. "After a comprehensive atomic bomb catastrophe man undergoes biological changes. Love is extinct only collective seasonal sexual intercourse remains. The place of traditional religion has been taken by a hysterical worship of Belial the god of evil." - Gerber Utopian Fantasy 1973 pp. 156-57. ". scalpel-like satirical account of twentieth-century humans' failure to understand their nature. Lesser writers would not handle this scenario and theme intelligently until the 1960's." - Anatomy of Wonder 1995 3-97. "Bleak and timely." - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction p. 17. Reference: Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-557. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 235. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I pp. 78-83. Baird and Greenwood An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1274. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown
1950SvasEC4B-826dChatto & Windus 1950-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Missing. 8x5x0. A nice hardcover missing the dust jacket a tight binding and an unmarked text. 1st Phoenix editionFrom a private smoke free collection. Shipping within 24 hours tracking number and delivery Confirmation. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1997021258London England: Folio Society 1997. Reprint . Slipcased. Near Fine. Rosoman Leonard. The mighty novel of a soulless streamlined Eden--and two who escape it in this stunning new slipcased edition from the Folio Society. First issued in 1971 this is a 1997 reprint in 196 pages with pen-&-ink illustrations throughout & cover art by the brilliant late British artist of all things fantastic Leonard Rosoman. With silver paper over boards stamped with bright red lettering to spine & silver line drawing of a baby with roses to front this small quarto is in Near Fine condition marred only by a pinpoint are of rubbing to baby's featureless face on front. Else exceptionally clean & bright binding strong & straight pages stark white & unmarked corners crisp. The black slipcase in semi-glossy paper is equally flawless! Stunning! Our photos depict the exact book you will receive never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on orders received Weekdays before 2 pm Pacific time; later orders weekends & holidays ship very next business day. <br/> <br/> Folio Society unknown
193622464London: Chatto & Windus 1936. First trade edition. Hardcover. Slight darkening to cover cloth splash marks to top edge else very good in jacket with chips to top edge. 6 620 pp. octavo light brown cloth lettered in red dustjacket. <br/><br/>Loosely autobiographical this novel tells the story of a young man's search for meaning in life. Bromer A41.2. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1962A52688New York NY: Harper & Brothers. 1962. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. Both front and rear book covers have strips of glue residue where a previous owner has used tape to hold down the dust jacket. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is in mostly clean bright condition with some light rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners. "Huxley completed his first unpublished novel at the age of 17 and began writing seriously in his early twenties establishing himself as a successful writer and social satirist. His first published novels were social satires Crome Yellow 1921 Antic Hay 1923 Those Barren Leaves 1925 and Point Counter Point 1928. Brave New World 1932 was his fifth novel and first dystopian work. In the 1920s he was also a contributor to Vanity Fair and British Vogue magazines. " from Wikipedia; 335p. pages; Pictured 2/22/26 . Harper & Brothers hardcover
192478496London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover in jacket. .First edition bound in red cloth with paper label on the spine and an extra label at the rear - internally bright though endpages with some toning. Private bookplate present and lightly soiled dust jacket with modest wear. . Chatto & Windus hardcover
193119623New York: The Fountain Press 1931. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Essays on a variety of topics mostly art & music but also a wide variety of subjects; also one titled 'The Beauty Industry': "The one American industry unaffected by the general depression of trade is the beauty industry. American women continue to spend on their faces and bodies as much as the spent before the coming of the slump." p125. Same as it ever was. Signed Limited edition number 736 signed by the author at the limitations page 8vo 146pp. Quarter black cloth and marbled paper-covered boards. Paper spine label slt toned. The Fountain Press hardcover
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
