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198611176FISCHER 07/1986. 1261.-1290. Tsd.ND. softcover. Nova Titolbildo! FISCHER paperback
1989basq10cb25<p> This is in very good condition with minimal rubbing of covers as seen. Author dedicaction and signed first name inside .Clean pages. First page back of cover old map with a travel advisory about Newfoundland weather. Back page is an index of names. The author was a British Canadian historian of international standing and geographer died in 2020.She was awarded The Order of Canada for outstanding contribution to the story of the Nation.She "uncovered a period 1540-1600 in Canadian history about which almost nothing was known".</p> Great Northern Peninsula Develpment Corp. paperback
192850806New York: Chatto & Windus 1928. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover - as published. Very Good green cloth #203/256 signed limited signed by Huxley on the limitation page. Spine slightly sunned. Front hinge weakened deckled edges t.e.g. A very nice copy. Chatto & Windus, hardcover
1948D20701London: Chatto and Windus 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. pp xviii 366. Photographs throughout. Folding map at rear. Cloth in pictorial dustwrapper missing lower 4cm of spine portion otherwise quite attractive. An uncommon title in the first edition this is an exceptional association copy INSCRIBED by Elspeth Huxley to American born conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin. Martin settled in Kenya as an adult and spent the balance of his life there courageously fighting on behalf of the elephant and the rhinoceros and the illegal trading of ivory and rhinoceros horns. <br/><br/> Chatto and Windus hardcover
elala4784London & Edinburgh: Williams And Norgate 1863. First Edition of this important work in which Huxley provided the first synthesis of the anatomical and embryological evidence of human evolution. He showed that there is less anatomical difference between man and the higher apes than between the latter and the lower primates. Freeman 1855. Bib. Osleriana 1605. Garrison & Morton 165. Waller 10853. 8vo. pp. 4 p.l.incl. frontis. 159 viiiads dated Feb. 1863. wood-engraved text illus. some full-page. ads on flyleaves. modern quarter calf first few leaves with institutional blindstamps some spotting & light soiling London & Edinburgh: Williams And Norgate, 1863 unknown
191386743New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1913. Presumed First U. S. Edition First printing. Hardcover. Fair. Edward A. Wilson Color illustrations. 2 Volume Set. Volume I xxiv 443 1 pages. Glossary. Appendix. Volume II. xiv 2 376 8 pages. Footnote. Appendix. Index. Maps and illustrations collated and found to be complete. Some page discoloration noted. Large volumes and boards show some weakness. This is a heavy set and if sent outside of the United States would require additional shipping charges. With photogravure frontispieces 6 original sketches in photogravure by Dr. E. A. Wilson 18 coloured plates 16 from drawings by Dr. Wilson 260 full page and smaller illustrations from photographs taken by Herbert G. Ponting and other members of the expedition panoramas and maps. Name of previous owner Ralph Steinhardt Jr.--possibly the member of the Special Engineer Detachment of the Manhattan Project stationed at Los Alamos during WWII inside front covers. Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham. Volume I appears to have a typographical error in the colour illustrations with the item differently title and the page given as 288 instead of its location at 238. Leonard Huxley 11 December 1860 - 3 May 1933 was an English schoolteacher writer and editor. Huxley's major biographies were the three volumes of Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley and the two volumes of Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI. He also published Thomas Henry Huxley: a character sketch and a short biography of Darwin. He was assistant master at Charterhouse School between 1884 and 1901. He was then the assistant editor of Cornhill Magazine between 1901 and 1916 becoming its editor in 1916. Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO 6 June 1868 - c. 29 March 1912 was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901-04 and the Terra Nova expedition of 1910-13. On the first expedition he set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S and discovered the Antarctic Plateau on which the South Pole is located. On the second venture Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912 less than five weeks after Amundsen's South Pole expedition. A planned meeting with supporting dog teams from the base camp failed despite Scott's written instructions and at a distance of 162 miles from their base camp at Hut Point and approximately 12.5 miles from the next depot Scott and his companions died. When Scott and his party's bodies were discovered they had in their possession the first Antarctic fossils discovered. The fossils were determined to be from the Glossopteris tree and proved that Antarctica was once forested and joined to other continents. Before his appointment to lead the Discovery expedition Scott had a career as a Royal Navy officer. In 1899 he had a chance encounter with Sir Clements Markham the president of the Royal Geographical Society and learned of a planned Antarctic expedition which he soon volunteered to lead. His name became inseparably associated with the Antarctic the field of work to which he remained committed during the final 12 years of his life. Following the news of his death Scott became a celebrated hero a status reflected by memorials erected across the UK. Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover
1936316637New York: Harper & Brothers 1936. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good in a Fair dust jacket. Nameplate on front pastedown. Spine slightly cocked. Large open tearing on spine crown and top rear panel. Small open tears on top and bottom front and rear panels spine heel and panel corners. Closed tear on spine. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1858411<p><strong>Folio 36.2 x 26.2 cm. x 143 pp.; 12 engraved plates with explanatory text leaves a few text figures. Original quarter linen over limp boards. Printed label with title mounted on front board. = Written by Darwin's Bulldog the zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley 1825-1895 who was a ship's assistant surgeon and naturalist on board of HMS Rattlesnake. The Rattlesnake charted the Great Barrier Reef and the seas northwards to New Guinea. Huxley's paper On the anatomy and the affinities of the family of Medusae' was published in 1849 by the Royal Society in its Philosophical Transactions. Huxley united the Hydroid and Sertularian polyps with the Medusae to form a class to which he subsequently gave the name of Hydrozoa. The connection he made was that all the members of the class consisted of two cell layers enclosing a central cavity or stomach. This is characteristic of the phylum now called the Cnidaria. He compared this feature to the serous and mucous structures of embryos of higher animals. When at last he got a grant from the Royal Society for the printing of plates Huxley was able to summarise this work in The Oceanic Hydrozoa published by the Ray Society in 1859'. The value of Huxley's work was recognised and on returning to England in 1850 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In the following year at the age of twenty-six he not only received the Royal Society Medal but was also elected to the Council Wikipedia. On the front pastedown an armorial bookplate of the Rashleigh family Menabilly. At least one Rashleigh Jonathan junior 1845-1872 was interested in marine biology. A pencilled annotation on the Ray Society title. Boards and spine a bit worn at edges; text and plates mostly clean. A very good copy housed in a custom dark green slipcase with paper label. An excellent survivor preserved in the Publisher's original state. Nissen ZBI 2065.</strong></p> Ray Society paperback
1936BOOKS344988London UK: Chatto & Windus. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1936. . Hardcover. All plates included . 8vo. 154 pp. cover rubbed bumped endpaper foxing . Chatto & Windus hardcover
198153432LONGMAN 1981. 9. softcover. LONGMAN paperback
117564London Chatto & Windus 1934. . First UK edition; 8vo 23 x 15 cm; 30 photographic illustrations maps on endpapers internally fine; publisher's orange cloth spine lettered in gilt original dust-jacket with a touch of rubbing a couple of chips to spine head and foot and lower bottom panel corner still a very good copy; viii 319 pp.<br /> Aldous Huxley's classic travel account of his journey from Trinidad to the Mayan ruins in Honduras and Guatemala.<br /> London, Chatto & Windus, 1934. hardcover
19463280Budapest: Franklin 1946. First Hungarian edition. In origianl cloth with wrappers. Very good condition. First Hungarian edition. In origianl cloth with wrappers. 160 p. Franklin unknown
19463289Budapest: Pantheon Kiadás 1946. Early Hungarian edition. In publisher’s cloth. With the rare jacket. Cover chipped little bit damaged. Inside fine condition. Early Hungarian edition. In publisher’s cloth. With the rare jacket. 256 p. Scarce Hungarian edition of Aldous Huxley’s 1894–1963 novel the “Brave New World†which was originally published in 1932. Pantheon Kiadás unknown
19341573Budapest: Pantheon Kiadás 1934. First Hungarian edition. In publisher’s blue cloth. Guilt publisher’s stamp on cover. Gilt title on spine. Publisher’s stamp on half tilte. Flyleaf torn out. Otherwise in very good condition. First Hungarian edition. In publisher’s blue cloth. Guilt publisher’s stamp on cover. Gilt title on spine. Publisher’s stamp on half tilte. Flyleaf torn out. 256 p. Scarce first Hungarian edition of Aldous Huxley’s 1894–1963 novel the “Brave New World†which was originally published in 1932. Pantheon Kiadás unknown
1958623189<p>This book was owned by Ira Einhorn the infamous serial killer and includes his signature and home address.</p> Harper&Brothers; hardcover
1928COLLECTI014756IGARDEN CITY NEW YORK: DOUBLEDAY DORAN & CO INC. FINE IN A VG D.J. 1928. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. BROMER A18.4.1 . PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL LIGHT GREEN CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH TAN PAPER TITLE LABEL TO THE SPINE WITHE LIGHT GREY DECORATED ENDPAPERS AND TOP EDGE STAINED PURPLE. THE BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. THE PALE GREEN PRINTED D.J. HAS SOME MODEST LOSS TO THE CORNERS AND SPINE-ENDS WITH A TRACE OF DUSTING AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AN EXCE LLENT CLEAN BRIGHT UNFADED COPY. . DOUBLEDAY DORAN & CO, INC hardcover
195937219Chatto & Windus 1959. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco sides with gilt frame border back with raised bands second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt gilt top hand-made endpapers red silk marker custom-made slip-case an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Cross and Perkin A.24. Chatto & Windus, hardcover
194510850<p>Harper & Brothers Publishers. New York. 1945. THIRD EDITION the same year as the first printing. 8vo. 8.1 x 5.1 inches. xi 312pp including index. A very good book in a fine attractive leather binding of full red Morocco. Spine with five raised bands. The compartments ruled lettered and decorated in gilt. Gilt inner dentelles. Top edge gilt. Decorative patterned endpapers printed in green black and red. A hint of rubbing to the extremities but overall a near fine copy. The binding is unsigned but is certainly the work of a master bookbinder.</p> Harper & Brothers Publishers. New York. 1945 hardcover
192117426London: Chatto and Windus 1921. A first edition first printing published by Chatto and Windus. A very good copy without inscriptions. White label is in good condition with the green top stain faded but present. Some light off-setting to the endpapers. A little wear to the corners. Beautiful rich colour to the boards with some handling marks. Aldous Huxley's "Crome Yellow" published in 1921 is a satirical novel that reflects the cultural and intellectual milieu of the early 20th century. Set at an English country estate it offers a dissection of the aristocracy's decline portraying a cast of eccentric characters grappling with existential and intellectual questions. The novel serves as a precursor to Huxley's more famous works including "Brave New World" and explores themes of modernity individualism and the tension between tradition and progress. Through its witty critique of society "Crome Yellow" provides a glimpse into the intellectual concerns of its time and serves as a valuable piece of social and literary history. Chatto and Windus hardcover
197910576HEYNE WILHELM 1979. 1. softcover. HEYNE, WILHELM paperback
19540037293London: Chatto & Windus 1954. First Edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Near Fine Condition. 19cm x 13cm. 64 pages. Blue cloth gilt lettering illustrated jacket. First Edition of Huxley's classic psychedelic essay The Doors of Perception wherein he recalls his first experience on mescaline. The first English Edition with the jacket designed by John Woodcock. BROMER A68.2. Minor tanning to endpapers very minor to jacket. 3cm closed tear to jacket lower tail near flap edge. Category: Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia; Inventory No: 0037293. BZDB407 Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia; Unbranded Aldous Huxley The Doors Of Perception Chatto & Windus hardcover
1996DADAX0198534663OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1996-08-22. 1. hardcover. New. 6.50x1.27x9.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS hardcover
75298London: Chatto and Windus 1932. Dystopian novel FIRST EDITION first impression. Octavo 20 x 14cm pp.8 306 2. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Contents clean no inscriptions edges of text block gently toned joints and extremities rubbed some acceptable marks to covers. A modern highlight and a landmark of 20th century fiction suggesting that a future of boundless materialist happiness designer narcosis and no strings sex might not be all its made out to be. Aldous Huxley was awarded the 1939 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 'After Many A Summer Dies The Swan'. London: Chatto and Windus, 1932 unknown
1964126020<p>8vo. blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine; publisher s wrapper 30s net designed by Jonathan Kingdon; who further provides the frontis illustration and another 20 illustrations one double page; two maps showing game parks and nature reserves as well as the seasonal movement of wildebeest; THE BOOK with the usual ghosting from the wrapper design onto the upper board and spine with strip of sunning to the lower edge and a couple of small dents to the extremities; a Very Good clean copy otherwise; the Very Good WRAPPER marginally toned to the spine and lower flap fold; some dark stains and a small hole to the head of the spine; a little rubbed at the foot and to the ends of the front flap fold; evidence of previous tape repair to verso now removed with some residue present. The wrapper remains striking in a removable Brodart archival cover. First edition double signed by the author with a warm inscription 'To VG with all love Elspeth Huxley' to the front free endpaper and flat signed underneath her crossed-out printed name to the title page. The recipient was the publisher Victor Gollancz. Huxley grew up in colonial Kenya where her parents had moved in 1912 to start a new life as coffee farmers. Educated in Nairobi Huxley was strongly influenced by the country she grew up in. Her first book published shortly after her marriage in 1935 focused on Lord Delamere one of the first settlers in Kenya. She went on to pen almost 40 works one of her most notable being Red Strangers an exploration of Kikuyu life in Kenya. Although initially an advocate of continued colonial rule she later called for the independence of African nations. Forks and Hope is the result of the three months Huxley spent in Tanganyika Kenya and Uganda during the year of 1963 during which time she spoke to political leaders visited new Universities and watched the emergence of a new East Africa feeling its way into a future full of ancient enigmas and new hopes wrapper blurb. Visiting Lake Lagarja the grass plains of the eastern Serengeti the Ngorongoro crater and Kipikieri Peak which stands at over 9000ft she kept journals and notes for the duration of her trip. "Writing about modern Africa is like trying to sketch a galloping horse that is out of sight before you have sharpened your pencil she writes. So much is happening - because the scene sparkles with new hopes and plans because nothing is static and nothing seems impossible. Jonathan Kingdon was born in Tanzania in 1935. A zoologist science author and artist he is currently a research associate at the University of Oxford and for most of his life he has devoted to taxonomic illustration and evolution of the mammals of Africa. An interesting association copy. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.</p> Chatto & Windus, London hardcover
1939007307London: Chatto & Windus 1939. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. NB: No dustjacket. Ochre yellow cloth with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Fair covers are generally shelfworn with sunning to spine. Some bumping to lower outer cover corners. Foxing throughout particularly to the first and last few pages. Binding sound. The name Huxley is written on the front endpaper in pencil. 406pp. 16 pages of sepia photographic plates. The book is a novel about life among the Kikuyu and the Masai and the effect of the coming of the white man on their traditional societies. Loosely inserted with the book are two handwritten letters to Elspeth Huxley 1907-1997 from the British paleoanthropologist and archaeologist Louis Leakey 1903-1972. The first letter is dated July 4 1939 and initially Louis Leakey mentions a few corrections that could be made to the facts in the text of Red Strangers. He then goes on to request her help in finding financial supporters for a weekly Kikuyu newspaper that he is thinking of starting. The second letter is undated and may have been enclosed with the first letter as it consists mainly of the detailed corrections that he would like made to the text of Red Strangers assuming that it goes to a second edition. The corrections include details of various tribal initiation rites. Both letters are addressed to "Elspeth" and signed Louis Leakey. Both letters are written in ink on one side only. The first letter is 4 pages long and the second 6 pages. Chatto & Windus Hardcover
