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1932119848London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo original blue cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper "Aldous Huxley 1962." Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing and wear to the extremities. Signed trade editions of Brave New World are scarce. "A nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science. easily Huxley's most popular and many good judges continue to think his best novel" DNB. "After the success of his first three novels Huxley abandoned the fictional milieu of literary London and directed his satire toward an imagined future. He admitted that the original idea of Brave New World was to challenge H.G. Wells' Utopian vision. The novel also marks Huxley's increasing disenchantment with the world which was to result in his leaving England for California in 1937 in search of a more spiritual life. The book was immediately successful" Parker & Kermode 161-62. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1932565426London: Chatto & Windus 1932. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in especially bright and very near fine dust jacket with very small chips at the spine ends and a tiny and seamless internal repair of a miniscule tear. Housed in a custom blue cloth clamshell case with gray morocco gilt spine label. A truly lovely copy of Huxley's masterpiece a bleak and despairing vision of future society. Increasingly rare in collector's condition. A much fresher than usual example. Connolly 100. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1932140946918London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with significant lean to binding and light fading to spine foxing to text block edges and slight perfume odor. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning to spine light edge wear and foxing. A striking copy of the dystopian classic. Chatto & Windus unknown
19321156London: Chatto and Windus 1932. First Edition. Deluxe issue number 154 of 324 signed copies. 8vo. Fine in the publisher's yellow cloth morocco label to spine lettered in gilt top edge gilt. The UK edition was split into signed and trade issues published simultaneously on 2 February following publication of the signed issue of the US edition on 21 January and preceding the US trade issue on 4 February. Half morocco box. Connolly 75; Eschelbach and Shober 10. "Brave New World" occupies a singular position within the twentieth-century literary canon as a prophetic dystopian vision that transcends mere speculative fiction through its incisive critique of technological determinism consumer capitalism and the erosion of individual autonomy. Unlike contemporaneous dystopian works that focused primarily on political authoritarianism Huxley's novel pioneered the concept of a "soft tyranny" wherein citizens willingly participate in their own subjugation through engineered pleasure and commodified happiness—a prescient anticipation of late capitalism's emphasis on consumption as identity formation. The novel's enduring relevance stems from its philosophical engagement with fundamental questions regarding the tension between individual liberty and social stability the ethical implications of biotechnology and the psychological price of material prosperity achieved through emotional suppression. Chatto and Windus unknown
1929149534London: Privately printed by The Curwen Press for H.R.H. The Prince of Wales 1929. First and limited deluxe edition of the monumental Legion Book; one of only one hundred numbered copies printed for private distribution by the Prince of Wales and signed by a remarkable array of British writers and artists as well as four prime ministers. Quarto original publisher's full deluxe pigskin over boards elaborately decorated in blind and gilt top edge gilt tissue-guarded color frontispiece engraved title-page vignette illustrated with 16 captioned tissued-guarded plates in various techniques some signed by the artist and 32 collotypes. One of one hundred numbered copies printed for private distribution by the Prince of Wales and with five pages signed by each of the 89 contributing writers and illustrators as well as four prime ministers three British Prime Ministers: David Lloyd George Stanley Baldwin and Ramsay MacDonald and French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau including: Winston Churchill who was not yet a Prime Minister Rudyard Kipling P.G. Wodehouse Eric Gill Stanley Spencer Charles Ricketts W. Heath Robinson Laura Knight William Nicholson Paul Nash David Low Rebecca West John Lavery Max Beerbohm Vita Sackville-West Hilaire Belloc Mark Gertler Edith Sitwell Jacob Epstein W.H. Davies and Aldous Huxley among others. This is number 84. The Legion Book was created at the request of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales—who would later become King Edward VIII and following his abdication the Duke of Windsor—as a fundraising initiative for the British Legion. All profits from its sales were intended to support the organization. The book features contributions from 85 distinguished British writers and artists including Winston Churchill Rudyard Kipling P.G. Wodehouse Aldous Huxley Vita Sackville-West G.K. Chesterton Hilaire Belloc Augustus John Eric Kennington and John Nash. It was compiled and edited by James Humphrey Cotton Minchin 1894–1966 a veteran who served with the Cameronians and the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. While the trade version saw several reprints a special edition of 600 numbered copies was also produced. Of these 500 bore the editor’s signature but “the first 100 were reserved for H.R.H. the Prince of Wales sponsor of the volume in his gift.†According to the note at the conclusion of the Table of Contents “Five pages of contributors’ signatures appear after the Dedication with additional signed pages opposite Collotype No. 3 and Collotype No. 20.†Every contributor signed the book with the sole exception of John Singer Sargent who died in 1925 before the project was completed. In near fine condition with toning to the extremities of the front panel and front hinge. Housed in the original publisher's custom folding cloth clamshell box. An exceptional example of this rare signed limited edition. Formed in the aftermath of a war that had shattered a generation the Royal British Legion emerged in May 1921 as a unified voice for the countless veterans left wounded—physically mentally and economically—by the First World War. The staggering cost of the conflict with nearly 3.2 million British Empire casualties exposed the inadequacy of postwar support. A fully disabled veteran received just 30 shillings a week and any claim had to be made within seven years of discharge. In response to such injustice several ex-servicemen’s groups came together to create the Legion not merely as a charity but as an advocate for those who had borne the brunt of industrialized warfare. From its inception the Legion fought for fair pensions better employment opportunities and meaningful support for both former service members and their families—laying the groundwork for a broader movement of remembrance welfare and national responsibility that continues to this day. Privately printed by The Curwen Press for H.R.H. The Prince of Wales hardcover
1863181331London: Williams and Norgate 1863. Exploring human evolution some seven years before Darwin's Descent of Man First edition first issue presentation copy inscribed in a secretarial hand "from the author" on the half-title. Evidence is Huxley's key work deliberately written for a non-specialist audience and among his most influential contributions to the theory of human evolution being the first to bring together anatomical and embryonic evidence. In the Origin of Species Darwin carefully avoided the implications of his theory for humanity but Huxley boldly brought them to the fore. In the early 1860s Richard Owen had asserted that human and ape brains were fundamentally different and that the hippocampus minor was exclusively found in humans. In Evidence Huxley uses extensive dissectional evidence to disprove this emphasizing the human-ape commonality and relying on Darwinian evolution for his theoretical underpinnings. The work was also among the first to publicize the discovery of Neanderthal man. The first issue prints the frontispiece on the verso of the second leaf forming an integral part of the preliminaries and the "Advertisement to the Reader" appears on the recto of the fourth. Octavo pp. viii 159 1 8. Wood-engraved frontispiece extensive illustrations in the text. With 8 pp. of publisher's advertisements dated February 1863 at rear. Original green pebble-grain cloth spine lettered in gilt and ruled in blind covers panelled in blind brownish-red endpapers with printed advertisements. Near-contemporary blue ink ownership stamp of chemist and publisher John Balcomb 1841-1918 of Cheltenham to half-title. Infrequent pencil sidelining to contents. Light bumping wear and toning head of front joint starting infrequent minor foxing to otherwise fresh contents: a very good copy. Cushing H554; Garrison-Morton 165; Heirs of Hippocrates 1033; Norman 1132; Osler 1605; Waller 10853. hardcover
409666New York: D. Appleton and Company; McClure Phillips & Company; The Science Press; Modern Publishing Company 1976. Hardcover. Very Good. A near-complete set of 205 bound volumes of monthly issues published between May 1872 to December 1976 vols. 1-209 lacking only five volumes and with all monthly issues dating after November 1900 with their printed wrappers bound in. All are bound in cloth or cloth over boards. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece plates; plates and maps some folded; and in-text wood-engravings gravure and halftone photographs diagrams tables etc.<br /> <br /> Founded in 1872 by the chemist and polymath Edward L. Youmans The Popular Science Monthly was the leading American journal established to disseminate scientific knowledge to the educated layman. Youmans was associated with many of the world's leading liberal and progressive thinkers ranging from Walt Whitman to Herbert Spencer and his journal became an outlet for the writings and ideas of Spencer and other Continental scientists like Thomas Henry Huxley and Louis Pasteur and for the rising generation of American philosophers like Charles Sanders Peirce John Dewey and William James and psychologist James McKeen Cattell who took over as editor in 1900. Among the many important first appearances are Peirce's series of eight papers published in 1877-78 under the series title: Illustrations of the Logic of Science; a series of two lectures by William James: A Defense of Pragmatism published in March and April 1907; and three papers by John Dewey: "Health and Sex in Higher Education" March 1886 "The Chaos in Moral Training" August 1894 and "Darwin's Influence upon Philosophy" July 1909.<br /> <br /> Also notable are several articles on women's issues of which we cite but three browsed at random: "Woman and Political Power" by Luke Owen Pike May 1872 Grant Allen's "Plain Words on the Woman Question" December 1889; and "Woman's Struggle for Liberty in Germany" by Mary Mills Patrick January 1900. Among the many articles published after the magazine changed its format in 1915 we cite Hugh Fullerton's "Why Babe Ruth is the Greatest Home Run Hitter" October 1921 as the best representative example of the type of article this award-winning magazine has published throughout the 20th Century and up through the present day.<br /> <br /> An ex-library set with intermittent markings that varied over time including: ownership stamps small ink and/or embossed stamps in the early volumes some perforated stamps in the middle volumes and ink stamps in the later volumes and bookplates. Modest overall soiling to the cloth bindings some of the early printed wraps are toned and/or detached still present a few volumes with small repairs to the endpapers most volumes are very good or better. A very scarce near-complete set. D. Appleton and Company; McClure, Phillips & Company; The Science Press; Modern Publishing Company hardcover
1932190207London: Chatto & Windus 1932. The signed issue of his famous dystopian novel First British edition signed limited issue number 36 of 324 copies signed and numbered by the author and specially bound. The British edition was split into signed and trade issues published simultaneously on 2 February following publication of the signed issue of the US edition on 21 January and preceding the US trade issue on 4 February. Huxley's enduring dystopian novel which meditates on the negative consequences of eliminating unhappiness turned him into the most famous British novelist of the inter-war period. Octavo. Original yellow cloth over bevelled boards blue morocco spine label top edge gilt others untrimmed. Spine lightly toned and bumped at centre and foot cloth very lightly mottled sides bright browning to endpapers else contents fresh. A very good copy. Bromer A29.2. hardcover
128531London: Bridgeman Images 2017. Edition of 50. Each print signed in pencil lower right by the artist and numbered lower left three of the prints are also titled lower middle. This limited edition folio features specially commissioned lithographs by six Royal Academicians and was printed by the Paupers Press. Ten per cent of profits from the initial sales are to be donated to the Royal Academy Schools. Folio. 6 original lithographs on heavy wove paper. Sheet sizes: 62 x 75 cm or 75 x 62 cm. Original blue cloth clamshell box with titles to front cover blind stamped. Title page with statement of limitation hand numbered. All in excellent condition. hardcover
19322008204London: Chatto and Windus 1932. First. hardcover. Very good/Very good. A very good first edition 1932 on title page and no mention of later printings on copyright page in a very good dust jacket with a page inscribed by Huxley inserted after the front free endpaper. Previous owner's bookplate attached to front paste-down some damage to front paste-down paper as well as to rear paste-down paper. Housed in a custom-made collector's clamshell case. Chatto and Windus unknown books
1932125732The First UK printing published by Chatto and Windus London in 1932. The BOOK is in Very Good or better condition. Original blue boards with slight fading of the blue colouring to the spine. Gilt titling and decoration remain vibrant. Light pushing at the spine ends and a tiny bump to the lower rear corner. Neat 'Henry Sotheran' bookseller sticker to the lower front pastedown. Free from inscriptions. A hint of toning to the text-block and extreme page edges. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good condition. It is correctly priced at '7s. 6d.net' to the front tower flap. A few rubbed areas to the upper spine end with a little loss not involving the lettering. Some rubbing to the folds and corners and small losses at the upper corners. Light edgewear with a few nicks and small closed tears in places and a light horizontal scratch to the rear panel. Light toning to the spine. The wrapper artwork looks striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. A nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science. Easily Huxley's most popular and many good judges continue to think his best novel' DNB. 'After the success of his first three novels Huxley abandoned the fictional milieu of literary London and directed his satire toward an imagined future. He admitted that the original idea of Brave New World was to challenge H.G. Wells' Utopian vision. The novel also marks Huxley's increasing disenchantment with the world which was to result in his leaving England for California in 1937 in search of a more spiritual life. The book was immediately successful' Parker & Kermode 161-62. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century. Housed in a custom solander box with gilt titling marbled inserts and a silk tie. A sharp copy of an increasingly elusive title to find in collectible condition. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Chatto and Windus, London hardcover
19324132London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good . A Nearly Fine copy of the book on account of gentle cocking of the spine in VG dust jacket with a few small chips at the crown and corners; spine slightly toned. Contemporary owner's name on the front endpaper. Overall a pleasing copy.<br/><br/>A defining moment in the genre of the dystopian novel Brave New World considers the dangers that new technologies and mass modernization pose to the very core of humanness. Rather than depicting these developments as gateways to utopia as writers such as H.G. Wells had done Huxley foreshadowed how radically technology and psychological conditioning could limit individual rights ranging from sexuality and reproduction to creativity to love. A "nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science" DNB. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1932140945945London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First Edition. First edition first printing. vi 306 1 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt blue topstain. Near Fine with typical slight toning to spine bookplate on paste down in a Very Good unsophisticated dust jacket light pink staining to front panel title lettering spine panel toned slightly chipped extremities with a triangular chip to the fore edge of the rear panel unclipped 7s 6d. <p>The first British trade edition of the classic dystopian novel that posited a nearly omnipotent totalitarian state essentially built from the ground up rather than the top-down dictatorship of 1984. Perennially relevant. As Helmholtz Watson says in the book "Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.". Chatto & Windus unknown
1932140946546London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight fading to the spine and light wear to tips. Textblock edge lightly dust-soiled contents toned and several preliminary sheets slightly soiled. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket toning to spine with chipping at ends and corners with a short split started at the bottom of the front spine joint. A great copy of this dystopian classic. Chatto & Windus unknown
19326464London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First Edition First Printing. First edition first printing with no additional printings listed on the copyright page. Signed by the author Aldous Huxley on a professionally tipped in page from a signed limited edition therefore the authenticity is guaranteed. Finely bound in tan leather with raised bands to the spine and marbled boards. Measures approximately 7.75" x 5.25" with 306 numbered pages. <br /> <br /> This book is in near fine condition. Gilt lettering and design on the spine still bright and well preserved. Binding is tight and the textblock is free of any previous ownership marks. <br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.<br /> <br /> Inventory # O8-57. Chatto & Windus unknown
1932171755London: Chatto & Windus 1932. But I don't want comfort. I want God I want poetry I want real danger I want freedom I want goodness. I want sin First edition first impression in the dust jacket. Huxley's enduring dystopian novel which meditates on the negative consequences of eliminating unhappiness turned him into the most famous British novelist of the inter-war period. Octavo. Original blue cloth spine lettered in gilt top edge blue bottom edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Spine cocked and lightly faded gilt bright rubbing to extremities fading to blue dye at top edge foxing to edges contents clean; unclipped jacket slightly rubbed and nicked 1.5 cm chip to spine head with partial loss to first word spine toned panels bright blue dye transfer on verso: a very good copy in like jacket. Bleiler Supernatural Fiction p. 267; Bromer A29.3.1; Eschelbach & Shober 10; Locke Spectrum of Fantasy p. 120. hardcover
1932140937840New York: Doubleday Doran and Company 1932. Signed Limited First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition copy #64 of a limited 250 signed by Aldous Huxley. Bound in publisher's mauve paper covered boards stamped in gilt with black spine cloth elaborately stamped in gilt in publisher's mauve slipcase. Fine. An absolutely stunning copy very fresh and sharp almost appearing as if new. In a Near Fine slipcase which is lightly sunned and has one indentation as well as a faintly visible erased pencil notation. A beautiful nearly flawless copy of a book and slipcase that normally turn up in much lesser condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. Doubleday, Doran and Company unknown books
1932140946487New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1932. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American trade edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth stamped in gilt with red topstain. Near Fine with oxidation to gilt at spine and light softening to ends light fading to cloth and light soiling to fore edge. Endsheets lightly offset. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with spine fading light soiling and a 2" closed tear to the top of the front flap fold. A much nicer copy than normally encountered and scarce thus. The classic dystopian novel that posited a nearly omnipotent totalitarian state essentially built from the ground up rather than the top-down dictatorship of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc unknown
193289752London: Chatto & Windus 1932. Signed limited first edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo original yellow cloth gilt topstain as issued. One of a limited edition of 324 numbered copies signed by Aldous Huxley on the limitation page. In near fine condition with light toning. A nice example. Huxley wrote Brave New World in response to H.G. Wells' Utopian novels of the early 20th century. Set in London in the year 2540 the novel anticipated future developments in psychological manipulation and reproductive technology which created a profound shift in the character of society. "A nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science. easily Huxley's most popular and many good judges continue to think his best novel" DNB. "After the success of his first three novels Huxley abandoned the fictional milieu of literary London and directed his satire toward an imagined future. He admitted that the original idea of Brave New World was to challenge H.G. Wells' Utopian vision. The novel also marks Huxley's increasing disenchantment with the world which was to result in his leaving England for California in 1937 in search of a more spiritual life. The book was immediately successful" Parker & Kermode 161-62. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1932HUXLEYAL014385Chatto & Windus London. 1932. First edition. Octavo. 306 pages. One of the defining novels of the twentieth century a dystopian vision which distils the fears arising from scientific advance just as Orwell's 1984 did for those arising from the misuse of progressive political theory.A few small spots to fore-edge. Faint vertical crease to spine. Very good indeed in good dustwrapper with some rubbing to the edges a 6 cm closed tear and a thumbnail sized chip to the tail of the spine affecting the publishers' names; repairs on the reverse. The fold of the front flap has been clumsily reinforced on the reverse. The colour of the dustwrapper is sharp and bright making this a suitable candidate for the restorer's art. Chatto & Windus, London. unknown
197337095PIPER REINHARD 1973. 1. hardcover. PIPER, REINHARD hardcover
1932118355London: Chatto & Windus 1932. Signed limited first edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo original yellow cloth gilt topstain as issued. One of a limited edition of 324 numbered copies signed by Aldous Huxley on the limitation page this is number 8. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Huxley wrote Brave New World in response to H.G. Wells' Utopian novels of the early 20th century. Set in London in the year 2540 the novel anticipated future developments in psychological manipulation and reproductive technology which created a profound shift in the character of society. "A nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science. easily Huxley's most popular and many good judges continue to think his best novel" DNB. "After the success of his first three novels Huxley abandoned the fictional milieu of literary London and directed his satire toward an imagined future. He admitted that the original idea of Brave New World was to challenge H.G. Wells' Utopian vision. The novel also marks Huxley's increasing disenchantment with the world which was to result in his leaving England for California in 1937 in search of a more spiritual life. The book was immediately successful" Parker & Kermode 161-62. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1932030405London: Chatto & Windus 1932. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Teal cloth gilt with slight bumps at the heel and foot of the spine. Wrapped in a pictorial dust jacket soiled at top edge with a pinhole and soiling on the spine tape on the back of the heel and foot and other tears similarly repaired. Overall a very good jacket with competent restoration. Clean interior. The American Library Association lists this dystopian title among its 100 most banned books and it regularly makes lists of the best books of all time. Chatto & Windus Hardcover
193386332Reliure de l'époque plein maroquin noir. Dos à nerfs, filets à froid sur les plats. Tête dorée. Non rogné. Manque angulaire sur l'intégralité des témoins. Un portrait de l'auteur (coupure de presse) collé sur garde blanche. Gardes légèrement ombrées.
1932150336London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery hand-made Italian marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Boldly signed and dated by Aldous Huxley on a page bound-in. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation rare and desirable signed. "A nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science… easily Huxley's most popular and many good judges continue to think his best novel" DNB. "After the success of his first three novels Huxley abandoned the fictional milieu of literary London and directed his satire toward an imagined future. He admitted that the original idea of Brave New World was to challenge H.G. Wells' Utopian vision… The novel also marks Huxley's increasing disenchantment with the world which was to result in his leaving England for California in 1937 in search of a more spiritual life. The book was immediately successful" Parker & Kermode 161-62. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century. Chatto & Windus hardcover
