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White Man's Country. Lord Delamere and the Making of Kenya. THE ORIGINAL EDITION: SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY IN FULL MOROCCO WITH A.L.s

2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 2 portrait frontispieces, 22 plates, a map in the text and 4 large folding maps; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, backs with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt tops, hand-made endpapers, ribbon markers, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. and map in the text and 4 large folding maps; green cloth, gilt backs, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly age-marked dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER HOLOGRAPH SIGNATURE AND INSCRIPTION ON TITLES, AND LONG A.L.s TO THE RECIPIENT IN POCKET AT END OF FIRST VOLUME. With 4pp publisher's catalogue at end of first volume. 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. 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'. PRESENTATION COPIES ARE EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Cross & Perkin A1(a).

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Life and letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

47601By his son Leonard Huxley. London : Macmillan and Co. 1900 First printed October 1900 this the November 1900 reprint. Two volumes octavo in Â fine prize bindings for Sydney Grammar School full polished calf ruled in gilt with floral corner emblems the school's armorial crest with motto Schola Grammatica Sydneiensis on upper board Wigram Allen Prize stamped below spines in compartments with raised bands gilt tooling and contrasting morocco title labels lettered in gilt marbled edges and endpapers pp. viii; 2; 503; vi; 2; 504 engraved and photogravures plates preliminaries lightly foxed a fine copy. Tipped in to the first volume is an original holograph letter from Thomas Huxley four pages black bordered notepaper dated 'Jermyn St. Dec. 19th 1860' addressed to 'My dear Sir Alfred Stephen' stating that 'now my Lecture is over there are many things that must be done and are piling up' regretting that time did not permit their meeting up before Sir Alfred's return voyage to Australia. Thomas Huxley writes to the Chief Justice of New South Wales about his Lecture now known as 'The Great Debate' on Darwinian theory. In 1860 Thomas Henry Huxley was pitted against Bishop Samuel Wilberforce in an informal public debate on Darwinian theory which focused on the scientific evidence for evolution and its compatibility with a literal interpretation of the Bible. Known as 'Darwin's Bulldog' Huxley was one of Charles Darwin's key advocates and public interest in the subject was high as the On the Origin of Species had only been published months earlier in November 1859. Taking place at Oxford University this contest of ideas is known as the Huxley-Wilberforce debate the 1860 Oxford Evolution debate or simply the Great Debate. The debate is remembered for a key exchange where Wilberforce questioned Huxley about his potential ape ancestry. While accounts of the exact wording differ a review by The Victorian Web suggests Wilberforce asked if Huxley's lineage was through his grandfather or grandmother. Huxley's response emphasizing his preference for an ape ancestor over someone who would use their position to obscure the truth is seen as a significant moment in the public acceptance of evolutionary theory. Sir Alfred Stephen GCMG CB PC 20 August 1802 â€“ 15 October 1894 was an Australian judge and Chief Justice of New South Wales from 1845 â€“ 1873 including at the time this letter was written. This books on Huxley were awarded to James Farish Stephen a descendent in about the year 1900 and the letter which had been passed down through the family has been tipped-in to the first volume. James Stephen's obituary appeared in The Sydneian no. 358 July 1967: 'JAMES FARISH STEPHEN James Farish Stephen 1901 died in December last. Mr. Stephen had a distinguished academic record at School winning the following prizes:- 1902 - Morehead Scholarship. 1895 1901 - Knox Prizes. 1901 - Wigram Allen Prize Mathematics. 1900 Wigram Allen Prize Natural Science. He was a life Member of the Old Sydneians' Union.' A finely bound copy of this detailed textbook on this important set of works written by Huxley's son with an original manuscript letter by Huxley. Â hardcover

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Typed Letter Signed

1946500339"Aldous Huxley" Llano CA March 1 1946. A letter with fine literary content to Gerald Kahan concerning the film rights to "Brave New World": "Your letter has been forwarded to me from Harpers. The dramatic rights to Brave New World were given some years ago to a man who is at present raising such difficulties about his rights that a projected screen version of the book has had to be abandoned. This being so I cannot grant permission for a dramatization such as you propose. It would only complicate a situation which is difficult and unpleasant enough as it is. But such alas is life." 4to 1 page with holgraphed addressed envelope signed "Huxley" in return address portion.

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Brave New World. A Novel.

123099London Chatto & Windus 1932. . First edition; 8vo 18.5 x 13 cm; slight age toning to text block as usual occasional small spot or mark throughout otherwise very good internal condition; modern full aquamarine morocco one-line gilt-panelled back by Bayntun Riviere gilt dentelles cockerel endpapers all edges gilt mild age-toning fading to spine otherwise a handsome finely-bound first edition; viii 306pp 4pp. A very good first edition example of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World in a modern fine-binding by Bayntun Riviere. This groundbreaking and chilling dystopian classic is set in the futuristic World State whose citizens are engineered into a social caste system based on their intelligence. The social hierarchy is challenged by the novel's protagonist and sleep-learning specialist Bernard Max as he fights against the psychological conditioning of the State. The novel has consistently been ranked among the Top 100 books of the 20th Century. London, Chatto & Windus, 1932. unknown

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X M Boulestin [ed]; Aldous Huxley; D H Laurence; Katherine MansfieldBiblio.com

The New Keepsake for the Year 1921

1920016460London. Paris: X. M. Boulestin by the Chelsea Book Club 1920. Number 34 of 50 copies on Japon from an edition of 620 this copy with the scarce errata slip.127pp with 9 plates. Bound in original white buckram with gilt lettering top gilt edge other rough. Cloth lightly dustdirt marked. Binding in very goood condition. Internally pages clean. A very nice copy. F. Limited Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. X. M. Boulestin by the Chelsea Book Club Hardcover

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The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood.

1959129827London: Chatto & Windus 1959. First edition of Huxley's autobiographical work based on her early life among white settlers on her father's coffee plantation in Kenya. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Elspeth Huxley on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket bookplate to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Rosemary Seligman. Uncommon signed. Elspeth Huxley prolifically wrote thirty books but she is best known for her lyrical books The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard. Both are based on her experiences growing up in a coffee farm in Colonial Kenya. Her husband Gervas Huxley was related to both Thomas and Aldous Huxley Lownie 2006. A year after the publication of The Flame Trees of Thika Huxley was appointed an independent member of the Advisory Commission for the Review of the Constitution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. She was an advocate of colonialism early in life and later called for independence for African countries Ibid. In the 1960s she served as a correspondent for the National Review magazine. It was later made into the well received television series originally airing in 1981. Chatto & Windus hardcover

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Wolstenholme, Gordon [Editor]; Sir Julian Huxley; JBS Haldane; Carleton Coon; et al J B SBiblio.com

Man and His Future.

1963149296Boston: Little Brown and Company 1963. First edition of this 1963 scientific progress conference anthology. Octavo original publisher's cloth with eight illustrations. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ira Goldblatt. Uncommon in this condition. Man and His Future is an anthology derived from a 1963 London symposium sponsored by the Ciba Foundation that brought together sixteen internationally recognized biologists to discuss the long-term prospects of human evolution and scientific progress. Among its most significant contributions is J. B. S. Haldaneâ€™s essay â€œBiological Possibilities for the Human Species in the Next Ten Thousand Yearsâ€ which contains what is widely regarded as the first scientific reference to the concept of human cloningâ€”marking the initial use of the terms â€œcloneâ€ and â€œcloningâ€ outside of agricultural contexts. The collection also features a contribution by Julian Huxley whose evolutionary humanism and familial connection to Brave New World underscore the intersection of science and speculative ethics. Little, Brown and Company hardcover

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BRAVE NEW WORLD

193204995BRAVE NEW WORLD Doubleday Doran 1932 first American edition spine and margins of covers lightened else a tight vg copy in a near vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and chipping mostly to the base of the dust-wrapper spine and adjoining section of the rear dust-wrapper panel. Strangely much less common than its' British counterpart. Doubleday, Doran unknown

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Scott, Robert F ; Ed Leonard HuxleyBiblio.com

Scott's Last Expedition. Volume I. Being the journals of Captain Scott. Volume II. Being the reports of the journeys & the scientific work undertaken by Dr.E.A.Wilson and the surviving members of the expedition.

1913106259London: Smith Elder & Co. 1913. 2nd ed. two volumes original cloth boards with gilt titles profusely illustrated with plates and maps frontis portraits of Scott and Wilson. Vol. I: pp xxvi 633 large folding map at end. Vol. II: pp xiv 534 large folding map at end. Second edition published the same year as the first. Complete. Some very light scattered foxing otherwise contents and images clean. Bound in half leather ornately decorated gilt spines top edges gilt other edges uncut. Binding by Cottage Bindery Bath with binder's stamp to rear paste-down first volume. Very good condition. Fine binding of the two volume second edition set printed same year as the first. The ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition of 1910-1913. Includes Captain Robert Falcon Scott's journals and reports from various members of the expedition. Profusely illustrated: "photogravure frontispieces 6 original sketches in photogravure by Dr Wilson 18 coloured plates 16 from drawings by Dr Wilson 260 full-page and smaller illustrations. panoramas and maps". 2nd Edition. Half leather. Smith, Elder & Co hardcover

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Rugby League Play the Game Ward Lock Limited

0706367669New. Brand new and still unused unknown

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Thomas H HuxleyBiblio.com

Man's Place in Nature Dover Books on Biology

0486432734New. Brand new and still unused unknown

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Aldous HuxleyBiblio.com

Brave New World

1932008502New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1932. First U.S. edition first printing trade issue. Hardcover. This is the first U.S. edition first printing trade issue very good in a good dust jacket. The brown cloth binding is tight and respectably clean with a slight forward lean bruised lower rear corner and some dulling of the gilt at the center spine and spine ends. The contents are clean with no spotting no soiling strong red topstain and only mild age-toning. The sole previous owner mark contemporary is initials surname and Dartmouth 35 inked on the upper front pastedown. FIRST EDITION is so stated on the title page verso. Slight differential toning to the endpapers corresponding to the dust jacket flaps testifies that this copy has spent life jacketed. The dust jacket is unclipped retaining the original $2.50 upper front flap price and substantially complete with minor loss substantially confined to the flap fold and spine extremities. The jacket shows moderate overall soiling and toning wear to extremities and a closed tear extending 1.5 inches up from the lower flap fold and angling an additional 2 inches across the lower front face. The dust jacket is protected beneath a clear removable archival cover. In summer 1932 Huxley published Brave New World which enhanced his fortunes and reputation as the best-known British novelist between the wars. It was an international best-seller particularly in paperback editions in the 1950s and was translated into twenty-eight languages. The novel the first about human cloning is a dystopia set five centuries in the future when overpopulation has led to biogenetic engineering. Through computerized genetic selection social engineers create a population happy with its lot. All the earth's children are born in hatcheries and Soma a get-happy pill irons out most problems. ODNB One imagines reading such a book this very book about a dystopian utopia at the very moment when Hitlers Reich with its racially homogenous "Volksgemeinschaft aspirations was ascending seemingly unopposed. When it was ostensibly read by the Dartmouth student who owned it in the mid-1930s they may have reasonably assumed themselves on the safe side of the Atlantic Ocean far from both literary and actual dystopia. Less than a decade later Hitlers purportedly Aryan armies invaded the low countries and France the Wehrmachts legions equipped with millions of Pervitin pills a belligerent equivalent of Soma allowing soldiers to stay awake for days at a time and march many more miles without rest. One wonders if the Dartmouth student who owned this copy was part of the vast American force that helped to scourge Europe. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. hardcover

Churchill Book Collector · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 269,15 €

Aldous HuxleyBiblio.com

Brave New World

193229050Brave New World by Aldous Huxley remains one of the most recognized dystopian novels of the twentieth century. This is the first edition issued in 1932 by Chatto & Windus in London. The text describes a distant society governed through scientific hierarchy and genetic classification. Citizens experience constant surveillance manufactured contentment and educational programming from birth. Huxley presents a framework of engineered order without reliance on conventional governance. Very Good condition. Binding is firm in original blue cloth with moderate handling wear. Pages show light staining with no obstruction to readability. Facsimile dust jacket is present and clean. Octavo 8vo single volume. 6 306 2. Pagination not stated. First edition. #29050. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Chatto & Windus hardcover

Schilb Antiquarian Rare Books · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 269,15 €

Huxley AldousABAA

BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED

1958159593New York: Harper & Brothers 1958. Octavo pp. i-vi vii viii ix-x 1-2 3-147 148-150: blank cloth-backed boards. First edition. Boldly signed by Huxley in brown ink on the half title page. "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. Private owner's bookplate affixed to the front free endpaper. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket priced $3.00 on the front flap with touch of rubbing at spine ends and 9 mm closed tear at bottom edge of rear panel. A lovely copy. #159593 Harper & Brothers unknown books

L. W. Currey, Inc. · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 269,15 €

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Two or Three Graces and Other Stories.

1926120642London: Chatto & Windus 1926. First edition of this early collection of stories by the author of Brave New World. Octavo original cloth. Boldly signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper "Aldous Huxley 1956." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Two or Three Graces Aldous Huxley's fourth collection of short fiction consists of the following four short pieces: Two or Three Graces Half Holiday The Monocle Fairy Godmother. Chatto & Windus hardcover books

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Typed Letter Signed

500339"Aldous Huxley" Llano CA March 1 1946. A letter with fine literary content to Gerald Kahan concerning the film rights to "Brave New World": "Your letter has been forwarded to me from Harpers. The dramatic rights to Brave New World were given some years ago to a man who is at present raising such difficulties about his rights that a projected screen version of the book has had to be abandoned. This being so I cannot grant permission for a dramatization such as you propose. It would only complicate a situation which is difficult and unpleasant enough as it is. But such alas is life." 4to 1 page with holgraphed addressed envelope signed "Huxley" in return address portion. Signed by Authors. F. Soft cover. paperback books

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Words and Their Meanings.

1940121782Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin 1940. Signed limited edition one of 100 numbered examples. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Aldous Huxley. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. This is Huxley's smallest limited edition rare and desirable. An argument as timely as it is timeless Aldous Huxley's Words and Their Meanings argues the significance and power of words. A less well-known work originally published by The Ward Ritchie Press in 1940 Huxley's essay arrived at the end of the Great Depression and coincided with U.S. entry into WWII a time when global relations were heavily impacted by the craft and manipulation of language. Words and Their Meanings was selected as one of the Western Books of 1940. Jake Zeitlin hardcover books

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The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood.

1959110441London: Chatto & Windus 1959. First edition of Huxley's autobiographical work based on her early life among white settlers on her father's coffee plantation in Kenya. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Elspeth Huxley on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rosemary Seligman. Uncommon signed. Elspeth Huxley prolifically wrote thirty books but she is best known for her lyrical books The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard. Both are based on her experiences growing up in a coffee farm in Colonial Kenya. Her husband Gervas Huxley was related to both Thomas and Aldous Huxley Lownie 2006. A year after the publication of The Flame Trees of Thika Huxley was appointed an independent member of the Advisory Commission for the Review of the Constitution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. She was an advocate of colonialism early in life and later called for independence for African countries Ibid. In the 1960s she served as a correspondent for the National Review magazine. It was later made into the well received television series originally airing in 1981. Chatto & Windus hardcover books

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On Art and Artists.

1960148084New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1960. First edition of this classic collection of essays. Octavo original cloth. Boldly signed by the Aldous Huxley on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed. Aldous Huxley 1894–1963 best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World was also a prolific essayist whose work explored a wide range of intellectual and artistic subjects. On Art and Artists is a collection of Huxley’s essays that examines the role of art in society the nature of creativity and the relationship between artistic expression and human perception. Drawing from his broad knowledge of literature philosophy and aesthetics Huxley offers insightful critiques of various artistic movements and figures emphasizing the transformative power of art. His essays reflect his characteristic blend of wit erudition and skepticism positioning him as a keen observer of cultural and artistic trends. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover

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Point Counter Point

1928140949258London: Chatto & Windus 1928. Signed Limited First Edition. Very Good. Limited first edition. Number 237 of 256 copies signed by Aldous Huxley on the limitation page at front. viii 601 1 pp. Bound in publisher's apple green cloth over beveled boards with spine lettered in gilt top edge gilt. Very Good with sunning to spine and light rubbing to extremities. Hinges cracked light offsetting to endpapers short tear to front free endpaper. A signed first edition of Huxley's bestselling roman a clef about his friendship with D.H. Lawrence who wrote: "I have read Point Counter Point with a heart sinking through my boot-soles and a rising admiration." Versions of Katherine Mansfield Nancy Cunard and other famous writers and artists appear in this satire of interwar British society. It is Huxley's most complex novel and a cornerstone of his reputation. Chatto & Windus unknown

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Huxley, ElspethBiblio.com

The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood.

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Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-95)Biblio.com

Autograph Letter Signed to Robert Dunn 1799-1877 dated Apr. 7 1861

D197064pp. London 178 x 108 mm. Creased where folded light soiling small dampstain in upper margin but very good. Huxley states that he is sending Dunn a copy of his paper on the brain of Ateles paniscus Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1861 which contains full details of "transverse" convolutions found in the brains of the great majority of the apes and which in the higher members of that group are exceedingly well developed. He adds that the equivalent part of the brain in carnivores has not been fully compared with that in primates. The article formed part of the longstanding debate between Huxley and Richard Owen over Owen's classification of mammals 1857 in which Owen argued primate brains; his demonstration that man must be zoologically be considered one of correspondent was a surgeon with a strong interest in the human brain and mind; he was the author of several works on psychology anthropology ethnology etc. Any ALS from Huxley discussing brain comparative anatomy is rare. Robert Dunn was an eminent surgeon with a strong interest in brain and mind. Huxley's paper on the paper "On the Brain of tge Ateles" was important in providing definitive evidence that man's brain does not contain any unique structures not present in the brains of Apes thus disproving Owen's theory. He cites this work in his major work Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature. unknown

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Aldous Huxley Conrad Aiken T S EliotBiblio.com

Coterie

19193437London: The Bomb Shop / Hendersons 1919. Very good. A wonderful collection of all six volumes of this short-lived literary journal focusing on modernist poetry. Aldous Huxley and Conrad Aiken were editors and contributors. T.S. Eliot's poem "A Cooking Egg" was first published herein. No. 6/7 contains a previously unpublished Oscar Wilde poem "To M. B.-J." Housed in what is presumably an original black clamshell with Bomb Shop on the spine though I've yet to see any other of these clamshells on the market. A truly outstanding collection of interwar poetry and art. Scarce in this condition as a full set. The Bomb Shop / Hendersons unknown

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Professor Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)Biblio.com

On Our Knowledge of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature

1862001928London: Robert Hardwicke 1862. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Small slim 8vo pp157 2 pages of adverts with small b/w illustrations in the text to pages 9 11 15 36 and 40. Hardcover no dust jacket. Binding of green cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind stamped designs to boards and spine in very good condition with a little rubbing to edges and tips. Inside starting to crack pages 106/107 but all pages still well bound and secure and in lovely clean and bright condition with no foxing marking or aging. Dubbing himself 'Darwin's bulldog' Huxley is primarily known as a popularizer of Darwin's theory and also for his war with theology and consequently invented what he conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'. From 1860 to 1863 Huxley developed his ideas presenting them in lectures to working men students and the general public followed by publication. Also in 1862 a series of talks to working men was printed lecture by lecture as pamphlets later bound up as a little green book; the first copies went on sale in December and prompted Darwin to write in dismay to Huxley stating of his six lectures "They are simply perfect" even though Huxley himself did not intend them to be widely circulated. An excellent copy of this very scarce first clothbound edition. Robert Hardwicke hardcover

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