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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
23142Eastbourne 22 June 1891. 4 pp. 7 x 4 inches folds. In good condition. Thomas Henry Huxley 1825-95 the celebrated English biologist known as Darwin's Bulldog for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. unknown
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1918S9148London:: John Murray 1918. 1918. Two volumes. 8vo. x 2 546; vi 569 pp. Frontis. Blue cloth gilt-stamped cover ornaments gilt-stamped spine titles; recased new endpapers. Fine. First edition first printing. This two-volume is the first full-length biography of Hooker written and edited by Leonard Huxley with the assistance of Hooker's widow Lady Hyacinth Hooker. Hooker 1817-1911 British botanist was arguably the most important botanical figure of the nineteenth century. A traveler and plant-collector he was one of Charles Darwin's closest friends and eventually succeeding his father to became director of Britain's Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in 1865. Hooker was chief botanist 1839-1843 teaming with Dr. David Lyall of the Antarctic voyage on the discovery ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror the consort to Erebus; the Terror was commanded by Crozier under the command of Sir James Clark Ross visiting Madeira and the Cape of South Africa. During the voyage he also served as assistant surgeon on the Erebus. In 1848-51 he journeyed at Nepal and India collecting many specimens preserved at Kew Gardens. See: W. B. Turrill Joseph Dalton Hooker. Botanist Explorer and Administrator London 1963. John Murray, 1918. hardcover books
1932116112Garden City NY: Garden City Publishing Co 1932. First printing of this edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo original blue cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. "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. Garden City Publishing Co hardcover books
1927117342London: Chatto & Windus 1927. Signed limited edition of what is considered by many to be Huxley's definitive work of fiction. Octavo original cloth. Number 108 of 200 numbered copies signed by Aldous Huxley. In near fine condition. A very sharp example. Written at the height of his powers immediately after Brave New World Aldous Huxley's highly acclaimed Eyeless in Gaza is his most personal novel. Huxley's bold nontraditional narrative tells the loosely autobiographical story of Anthony Beavis a cynical libertine Oxford graduate who comes of age in the vacuum left by World War I. Unfulfilled by his life loves and adventures Anthony is persuaded by a charismatic friend to become a Marxist and take up arms with Mexican revolutionaries. But when their disastrous embrace of violence nearly kills them Anthony is left shattered--and is forced to find an alternative to the moral disillusionment of the modern world. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1937140947225London: Chatto & Windus 1937. Signed Deluxe First Edition. Near Fine. Deluxe limited first edition copy #72 of 160 signed by Aldous Huxley on the limitation page. viii 336 pp. Bound in original patterned paper over beveled boards yellow cloth spine lettered in gilt top edge gilt. Near Fine with light soiling and sunning to spine foxing to text block edges and first and last few pages and occasional foxing to margins throughout. Bookseller ticket to front free endpaper. <p>An attractive special edition of this collection of essays by Huxley who analyzes the theories and practices of social reformers. Chatto & Windus unknown
1922111-5411London: Chatto & Windus 1922. Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full blue cloth. Solid blue topstain. Quarto 229pps. There is modest foxing to the closed page-edges only and the endpapers are tanned. Also the bookplate of esteemed book collector and bibliographist Adrian Homer Goldstone is affixed to the front pastedown. Otherwise clean tight square and bright. All tips are sharp. The paper label on the book's spine-panel denoting the title and the author is in fine clean condition. The dustjacket glossy in a mylar sleeve and whole has general foxing; its spine is unfaded and there are only very minor touches of rubbing wear to the extremities. A very nice collector's-quality copy -- rare in jacket -- of the author's second collection of short stories. Includes 'The Gioconda Smile' 'Permutations among the Nightingales' 'The Tillotson Banquet' 'Green Tunnels' and 'Nuns at Luncheon.'<br><br> Purchase with confidence: all books gradings and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with your decision photos can be emailed upon request. First Edition. Cloth. Chatto & Windus Hardcover
1928000013New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1928. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 432pp. Purple boards pale green titles on spine and front board. Spine a bit sunned but titles remain legible. Some wear to spine ends with small nick to foot of spine but spine remains straight binding tight corners solid. Pages clean and unmarked. Signed and briefly inscribed by Huxley on FFEP. Early G&D reissue of Huxley's classic lacking the dust jacket. . Grosset & Dunlap Hardcover
1954018<p>London: Chatto & Windus 1954. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition second impression. Tight and square binding in blue cloth; bright gilt; darkened a little at the edges. Flyleaf has a gift inscription to an unnamed previous owner else bright crisp and clean. The unclipped first-state dustwrapper 6s net stated is Very Good: slightly yellowed but bright colours with toning to the spine minor chipping to bottom spine. 63 pp.</p> Chatto & Windus hardcover
FORT776445George H. Doran Company. Used - Good. Signed by Aldous Huxley. First American Edition Limited issue of 250 copies this is copy #120. Publisher's cream and brown boards with gilt lettering and top edge gilt. In Fair condition dust jacket. George H. Doran Company hardcover
184321Smith Elder & Co. London 1913. 2 volumes thick octavo: 636 pp 534 pp b&w frontispiece in each volume 2 fold-out panoramas numerous b&w photographic plates 2 facsimile letters 9 fold-out maps 3 double-page plates top edges gilt edges foxed bookplates on end-papers - very good set in blue cloth boards. . First edition. Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1913 hardcover
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, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Cross and Perkin, A.24.
8vo., First Edition, with fine portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, and numerous plates; handsomely bound in dark green full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, gilt from original front board (incorporating DHL's 'phoenix' emblem) mounted on new leaf at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Roberts A61b.
1956847<p>No book only clippings. A big collection of newspaper clippings from 50s. All about drugs and mescaline etc. Many clippings from about the doors of perception. I believe all of these are from the 50s in relationsship to the publishing of the doors of perception by Aldous Huxley. Rare clippings. Some of them has been underlined.</p>
2023CBS-9798886263480American Academic Publisher Exclusive 2023. New. American Academic Publisher (Exclusive) unknown
2023CBS-9798886263480American Academic Publisher Exclusive 2023. New. American Academic Publisher (Exclusive) unknown
198511258FISCHER 04/1985. 1201.-1230. Tsd.ND. softcover. Nova Titolbildo! FISCHER paperback
