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1927146277London: Chatto & Windus 1927. Signed limited edition of this work by the award-winning author. Octavo original half cloth over marbled boards. One of 260 copies signed by Aldous Huxley. In near fine condition. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1883453251883. <p>Huxley Thomas Henry 1825-95. Etched portrait mounted by Leopold Flameng after the 1883 portrait by John Collier 1850-1934 signed in the plate by Huxley. London: The Fine Art Society 1 January 1885. 583 x 423 mm.; mount measures 604 x 440. Scattered foxing small tear in lower margin not affecting image but very good. Small embossed stamp in lower right corner.</p> <p> From the portrait of Huxley painted in 1883 by his son-in-law pre-Raphaelite painter John Collier. This version of the print is very scarce; this is the first copy we have seen or handled in over 50 years. Based on the large brow ridges shown on the skull that Huxley is holding in the portrait it is probable that Huxley is holding a Neanderthal skull the significance of which Huxley originally publicized in his Man's Place in Nature 1863. Collier was married to two of Huxley's daughters: First to Marian Mady a talented painter in her own right; and after Mady's death to her younger sister Ethel. The original of Collier's portrait now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. </p> . unknown books
1962043079London: Chatto and Windus 1962. First British Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Huxley on the first endpaper. A nice solid copy that could easily go a grade higher. Jacket has a few tiny closed tears and light stressing at extremities and some minor foxing mostly to verso. <br/> <br/> Chatto and Windus hardcover
18985537London: Macmillan 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First and only edition of Huxley's complete scientific works previously only available in the original scientific journals. 1898-1903. Complete in 5 volumes: 4 plus the supplementary volume. Numerous plates many folding. A good ex-reference library set in the original red cloth gilt. Library plate to front pastedown of each volume no other library markings apparent. Externally clean with some sun fading and minor scuffing to cloth boards. Vol. 1 backstrip split and reaffixed. Vol. 2 and the supplementary volume rebacked with new endpapers but retaining original backstrips. Text blocks of each volume are tight with no loose or missing pages all plates present. Internally the volumes are overall clean and unmarked with very occasional small foxing spots and evidence of handling on a few pages of each volume. Overall a clean tight copy of this cornerstone of 19th Century biological thought. Thomas Henry Huxley 1825-1895 known as Darwin's bulldog for his passionate defense of the theory of evolution was a brilliant Victorian anatomist and biologist who counted amongst his grand-children the noted scientist Julian Huxley and renowned author Aldous. Super-royal 8vo 10 " x 6 ". xv 606 xi 612 xi 622 xii 689 90. Heavy set of books weighing 11kg 24 pounds. Macmillan hardcover
1913B2551London: Smith Elder & Co 1913. Covers slightly worn minor browning otherwise a good copy. Edition: 1st Binding: contemporary full cloth with title in gilt on upper board. Flat spine with title in gilt. Notes: An uncut copy<br>R.F. Scott was a British Royal Navy officer and Antarctic explorer. He and his four companions died while trying to return to their base. Scott has become one of the most famous and tragic personalities of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Size: small 4to Illustration: A profusion of full page plates some photogravure and coloured plates depiciting various aspects of the journey. Volume: 2 References: Spence 1056; Conrad p188 Pages: Volume 1. P. half-title blank frontis title blank v-xxvi 1-633 printer’s imprint advertisement 2; Volume 2 P. half-title blank frontis title blank v-xiv blank 1 1-534. The 2nd London edition varies slightly from the first - the 2 full page plates at p. 278 are placed at p. 274 & 278 in the second edition. Category: Book Voyages General Smith, Elder & Co hardcover
1923031234UK 1923. First Edition . Paper. Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. A Wonderful Original Handwritten Signed Eight-Sided Letter and Envelope from Juliette Huxley to Ottoline Morrell discussing her Relationship with her husband Sir Julian Huxley. Undated but circa 1923. The envelope is addressed to The Lady Ottoline Morrell Kurhaus HovenFreiberg in Brisgau Baden Germany. The letter reads 31 Hillway Highgate N.6. Mountview 5744. Dear Ottoline I should have answered your letter before but I was laid up - oh these eternal bacteriological tournaments & am still in bed slowly & so painfully recovering. I have no patience with my illnesses & resent their catching hold of my heels so cunningly. - This time the specialist came up & I hope will get at the root of the trouble & cure me somehow. Forgive this boring affair - You know too much about ill-health & I should not bore you with mine. J. has written to me that the "marriage" is off. He cabled the girl & jilted her. She is naturally v. upset - & has threatened to come over - meanwhile he has written me and wants to see me terribly - I took ill & had to put him off & shall now see him next week - He now says He never ceased loving me & wants to start over again. And of course cannot wait a day - All so unstable so unreliable - I want a man not a shuttlecock. He is obviously in a highly nervous state clutching at every straw & refusing still to look at himself calmly - He hasn't found his soul in her pocket as he hoped - & so turns to me. When will he understand that no-one but himself can give him peace - he must work & weep & hunger for it & know bitter suffering - I cannot help him until he accepts his defeat - & thereby wins his soul. I must not help him for it would destroy me again. I sound hard - I know but I have to be. The price of peace & life - Don't misunderstand me. By not helping I mean I cannot take him back now at once & listen to his self-justification. I can only stand there & leave the door ajar. And even so I tremble - It's all so minutely adjusted like acrobatic trapezes & every fault will mean more pain. And yet why should I grudge a little more pain Pain has been my enemy until she lived in me - & then she became so much a friend - But before what hell it was - could it begin again I am glad you are with Dr Martin - I think of you getting stronger & living in light - I dreamt I was choosing new curtains last night with you - in a high room; grey panelled. The walls were hung with little stripes of bright colours running up like flames - All day it has been a background to my mind lovely colours like yours. I lie in my huge bed & think of them & of lovely words linked together to make poetry like magic casements opening up on the foam of fairy lands forlorn - one's world becomes so small & almost like a nest as one lies in bed - The house has only one room the room one window - one suffices to oneself. Yes but life lies waiting on the doorstep & there will be the inescapable decisions - there will be Julian poor silly Julian! This is an absurdly long letter - & I haven't said half I wanted - I send you my love; I'd like to discover a lovely poem to send you - I find too many. Matthew Arnold has fallen fresh as a star into my room. I revel in it. You like him It is like Gower St. I'm on the doorstep since half an hour & cannot go away - Because your front door makes such a radiance about everything - & it is so warm. Dearest Ottoline good night. Juliette. Juliette Lady Huxley née Marie Juliette Baillot; 1896 -1994 was a Swiss-French sculptor and writer. She provided lifelong support to her husband British naturalist Sir Julian Huxley. Around 1915 she began working as a tutor to the daughter of Lady Ottoline Morrell at Garsington. It was there in 1916 that she met Aldous Huxley and his brother Julian. She and Julian were married in 1919. Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell 1873 - 1938 was an English aristocrat and society hostess. Size is 165mm x 122mm. Condition good. R19237 <br/> <br/> unknown
195311259FISCHER 02/1953. 1. softcover. FISCHER paperback
1932HUXLEYAL015725Chatto & Windus London. 1932. First edition. Octavo. 306 pages.Fore-edge and prelims very slightly spotted. Spine a bit creased. Very good. No dustwrapper. Chatto & Windus, London. unknown
2003x-0415289297Routledge 2003. Hardcover. New. reprint edition. 400 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. Routledge hardcover
dola3128<p>London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First Edition. 12mo. pp. 4 p.l. incl. initial blank 306 1. cloth. Very good copy slight lean to spine. without dw. dola3128</p> London: Chatto & Windus, 1932 hardcover
1930322376London: The Amalgamated Press Ltd 1930. First edition. In 30 fortnightly parts. Large 4to. Pictorial wrappers. In half blue morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition. In 30 fortnightly parts. Large 4to. The Amalgamated Press Ltd unknown
1921131158<p>The sole printing published by London and Paris: Chelsea Book Club for X. M. Boulestin in 1921. No. '339' of 550 copies printed on velin a la cuve. Some text in French some in English. The BOOK is in Very Good condition with the publisher's beveled yellow cloth having moderate age related markings and toning to the edges. Errata slip present. Light offsetting to the blank end-papers. Free from inscriptions. A little toning to the text-block. The contents are otherwise very good to fine with just a little light spotting to the edges in places. All plates are present. Highlights in this wonderful anthology include 'Imaginary Conversation'- Kenelm and Venetia Digby ; D. H. Lawrence's 'Adolf' ; 'The Black Cap' by Katherine Mansfield ; Paul Nash's striking woodcut 'The Sea Wall' ; Gromaire's woodcut 'Bois au canif' ; 'La fille au litre' by Laboureur ; Marie Laurencin's etching 'La Perruque' ; original etching by A. Dunoyer de Segonzac a weird poem on a Tarzan movie by John J. Adams perhaps the first literary work based on a Tarzan film 'Jazz' a tune with a foxtrot beat and lyrics by Aldous Huxley. The book is protected in a removable Mylar archival cover. Scarce. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.</p> London and Paris: Chelsea Book Club for X. M. Boulestin hardcover
1938007320USA: Harper & Brothers 1938. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Murder On Safari by Elspeth Huxley First Edition Harper & Brothers 1938. New York & London. A fine copy. Small and neat contemporary gift inscription to half title page. Contents and uncut edges free of foxing or toning. Covers are completely unmarked and have no bumping or rubbing to corners or edges. In original bright and fine dust jacket that has no tears or loss and still retains its original publisher's promotional wrap-around band. Not price clipped. Murder on Safari by Elspeth Huxley is a mystery novel set in Kenya during the 1930s. The story follows the investigation of a murder that occurs on a safari trip led by the wealthy and flamboyant American socialite Mrs. Bradley. The murder victim is her husband's ex-wife who was also on the trip. The detective work is carried out by a local Kenyan police chief who must navigate the prejudices and class divisions of the British colonial society in order to uncover the truth. The book offers a vivid portrayal of the African landscape and culture as well as a critique of colonial attitudes towards race and power. <br/> <br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover
191604988FIRST BOOK THE BURNING WHEEL Blackwell 1916 first edition some light dust-soil to the covers else a vg copy in wraps as issued. The authors scarce first book. Blackwell paperback
196295084London: Chatto & Windus 1962. First edition early printing of one of Huxley's best known works. Octavo original half cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half-title page "For Joe Ferrier with gratitude for your interest in my childhood memories - now are half a century old. Elspeth Huxley." Laid in are three typed letters signed by Huxley to Joe Ferrier one of which reads in part "I much appreciate your continuing interest in my writings - as much as I regret the appalling untidiness of this typing. My non-proficiency increases with the years and the typewriter is now nearly as old as I am; a few more years and in this age of word-processors etc.; it may become a valuable antique. With best wishes yours sincerely Elspeth Huxley." The recipient Joe Ferrier was a lifelong pen pal and friend of Huxley's. They often exchanged letters books and article clippings between England and the United States. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rosemary Grimble. Nellie and Major Josceline Grant arrived in Thika in what was then British East Africa in 1912 where they became colonial settlers and established a coffee plantation. Their daughter Elspeth had quite an unconventional childhood which she later wrote about in her best known work The Flame Trees of Thika 1959 which examined how unprepared for rustic life the early British settlers really were. The Mottled Lizard continues the story when the family returns to Kenya after the first world war. Huxley recreates in vivid detail their home native servants hunting expeditions and travels throughout the country. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1880466421880. <p>Huxley Thomas Henry 1825-95. On the application of the laws of evolution to the arrangement of the vertebrata and more particularly of the mammalia. Offprint from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1880. 649-662pp. 223 x 156 mm. Original plain wrappers small split at spine minor dust-soiling. Very good.</p> <p> First Edition Offprint Issue. Huxley here lays out the successive stages of mammalian evolution from the simplest to the highest forms and extends this "law" of ancestral evolution to all vertebrates. </p> . unknown
193249848London: Chatto and Windus 1932. First edition 8vo vi 306 pp. Recent blue half morocco t.e.g. London: Chatto and Windus unknown
1932001386London: Chatto & Windus 1932. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 190 × 140 mm. First edition first printing. Recent half red leather five raised bands two black compartments gilt title and author's name on the spine gilt lining on the boards. Minor foxing to the preliminary pages. The binding remains tight sturdy and square. A very nice copy. Chatto & Windus Hardcover
197011175FISCHER 08/1970. 258.-277. Tsd.ND. softcover. Nova Titolbildo! FISCHER paperback
197911261FISCHER 05/1979. 716.-765. Tsd.ND. softcover. FISCHER paperback
198011260FISCHER 10/1980. 816.-865. Tsd. softcover. FISCHER paperback
195996020London: Chatto & Windus 1959. First edition of the reissue of Huxley's autobiographical work based on her early life among white settlers on her father's coffee plantation in Kenya. Octavo original cloth frontispiece. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page "For Joe Ferrier with all good wishes. Elspeth Huxley." The recipient Joe Ferrier was a lifelong friend of Huxley's. They often exchanged letters books and article clippings between England and the United States. Also laid in are three typed letters signed by Huxley to the recipient. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Woodcock. 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
1962530026Copenhagen: Munksgaard 1962. Softcover. Near Fine. First separate edition. Octavo. Stapled printed self-wrappers. 68pp. Light pencil notes on front wrap and a few in the text all erasable else near fine. "Reprints from Gerhard S. Nielsen Ed. Clinical Psychology. Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Applied Psychology volume 4." Texts of the presentations about psychedelic experiences and the only time Huxley and Leary lectured together. Munksgaard unknown
1931398255NY: Doubleday Doran & Company 1931. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Four hardcover volumes. Original blue cloth spines title printed in black on paper label affixed to spines. Blue paper-covered boards with H.G. Wells's facsimile signature in gilt on covers. Top edges gilt. Solid text blocks rubbed corners sunning to spines a very good set. Internally bright with numerous in-text illustrations and diagrams. The frontispiece of each volume contains a colorful illustration in a theme related to the subject matter of the work. A limited edition set number 526 of 750 signed copies. Signed by H.G. Wells Julian Huxley and G.F. Wells on the limitation page. Many illustrations and diagrams. Iconic work from the thirties on all things biological from two of the greatest exponents of science in the 20th century along with Well's' son and zoologist George Wells. Clean set minor shelf wear. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Record # 398255 Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover
198211173FISCHER 05/1982. 951.-1000. Tsd. softcover. FISCHER paperback
