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1956008434London: Golden Cockerel Press 1956. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. BUCKLAND WRIGHT John 1897-1954. One of the Golden Cockerel Presses SPECIALS with 4 additional experimental engravings 1 of 100 out of an edition limited to 200 numbered copies in the publishers green pictorial morocco gilt image to upper board gilt title to spine a few small marks. Internally frontis 6 7-10 pp 2 2 1 limitation 9 illustrations by Buckland Wright 4 full page foreword by Mary Buckland Wright printed on green Barcham Green's hand made paper text printed in red inks t.e.g. a little edge browning to pds & feps housed in the publishers red cloth slip case. Accompanied by 4 additional experimental engravings 1 titled Satyre 1: & 2 signed JBW with tissue guards housed in their own red cloth slip case. 287177 mm Reid A74a. Cock-a-Hoop P204. The 1956 Golden Cockerel edition is notable because it pairs Mallarmé's text with Huxley's translation it uses fine hand-made paper and special typography. Buckland Wright's illustrations emphasize the poem's erotic pastoral atmosphere. In short: L'après-midi d'un faune is a dream-poem about desire memory and illusion-one of the most influential poetic works of European modernism. <br/> <br/> Golden Cockerel Press hardcover
1932140937964London: Chatto and Windus 1932. Signed Limited First Edition. Very Good. First British edition signed limited edition. Number 82 of a limited 324 copies signed by Aldous Huxley. Bound in publisher's original yellow cloth with blue morocco title label to spine lettered in gilt. Very Good. Spine faded. Light foxing to cloth heavier at spine. Endsheets toned small vintage bookseller ticket to rear pastedown causing light offsetting to free endpaper. A beautiful copy of the author's best-known work. Chatto and Windus unknown books
1932000930Chatto and Windus 1932. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Dust Jacket Included. First edition first impression published by Chatto & Windus in 1932. Huxley's seminal work and a classic of modern literature. Unclipped dust jacket has strong colours with loss to the spine ends and also into the adjoining panels with some small tears and chipping to the corners and some creasing. Jacket is now in a very tidy removable protective wrapper. Blue covers bright gilt lettering to the spine slight lean or spine curve secure binding blue top edge bottom edge of pages untrimmed a few spots to the edge of the page block pages otherwise bright and tidy. Good condition. <br/> <br/> Chatto and Windus hardcover
19327187London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First UK Edition First Impression SIGNED. First edition first impression 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. Measuring approximately 7.75" x 5.25" with 306 numbered pages. Comes with a facsimile reproduction dust jacket for protection and display.<br /> <br /> This book is in very good condition. Minor wear and staining to the original cloth boards. Minor sun fading to the spine. Minor tape ghost staining to the original endpapers. Old bookseller ticket at the bottom of the front pastedown. Interior pages are otherwise clean and well preserved. <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 # P1-75. Chatto & Windus unknown
1916140941755Oxford: B. H. Blackwell 1916. First Edition. Very Good. First edition of Aldous Huxley's first book. A presentation copy signed by the author and inscribed to Elbridge Adams dated 1929. Bound in publisher's original cream-colored wraps with title label to spine and upper cover. Very Good with soiling and edge wear and a short split started at the bottom of the front spine fold. The words "Printed in Great Britain" penciled to title page and pages lightly thumbed. Housed in a custom green cloth folding slipcase. B. H. Blackwell unknown
186332820395<p>Original cloth paper spine label chipped. Very good. Cloth case</p><p>FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. <b>From the library of Millard Fillmore 13th president of the United States 1850-1853 with his signatures dated May 22 1863</b> on the title and on the front pastedown.</p><p>Huxley "Darwin's bulldog" was the leading defender and promoter of Darwinism in the years following the publication of <i>On the Origin of Species</i> in 1859.<br /><br />In this popular work Huxley attempts to "disencumber the subject of its difficulties simplify its statements relieve it of technicalities and bring it so distinctly within the horizon of ordinary apprehension that persons of common sense may judge for themselves. … Such is the character of the present volume" preface.</p><p>This volume reflects the wide dissemination of Darwin's ideas in the 1860s.</p><br /> Appleton hardcover
3503851975. Unbound. Near Fine. A collection of more than 40 letters notes and ephemera dated between 1932-1975 from the private files of Katherine Gauss Jackson and her father Christian Gauss. Nearly all are near fine or better. The correspondents include a number of noted figures in American literature and academia including: two-page Autograph Letter Signed from Sinclair Lewis; Typed Note Signed by Aldous Huxley; Typed Note Signed by Rex Stout; two Autograph Notes Signed by illustrator Robert Osborn with an Inscribed cartoon; and four Autograph Letters Signed from Edmund Wilson related to the publication of The Papers of Christian Gauss along with numerous other correspondence. Further details available upon request. unknown
1933140940405London: Hutchinson & Co 1933. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. 432 12 ads pp. Dark navy cloth stamped in blind at front spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with bumped corners and light edge wear in a Very Good dust jacket with a little expert restoration of the head sunning and crease to spine panel edge wear single piece of tape on verso. Signed on front free endpaper by H.G. Wells and inscribed to Julian Huxley brother of Brave New World author Aldous Huxley and a co-author with Wells of the 1930 nonfiction book The Science of Life "Julian another from H.G." Huxley's close reading of this copy is clear from his marginal pencil lines throughout which he indexed in pencil on the rear endpaper and paste down. A significant association between two major British intellectuals with similar philosophies who for a time had a close friendship. While best known as "the father of science fiction" for his pioneering novels that presaged many future technologies such as this work Wells was also a trained biologist whose first published book was a science text. Huxley was a prominent evolutionary theorist and eugenicist following in his father's footsteps-- his father being Wells' biology professor and mentor in college. According to Julian's Memoirs the two met in 1926. Shortly thereafter he was asked by Wells to collaborate with him and his son G.P. on a scientific follow-up to Wells' epic The Outline of History that would become The Science of Life. Wells proved to be a demanding taskmaster rusty about biology having focused on fiction and other subjects for so long and Huxley had to resign his professorship to handle the bulk of the research and writing. The two became close friends and correspondents over the next three years. They would stay friends until 1941 when Huxley dared to limit Wells to 20 minutes at the podium of an upcoming meeting of the British Association. Wells had been looking forward to expounding on many of his internationalist futurist ideas expounded in this novel and his nonfiction The New World Order at great length was mortally offended at the rebuff canceled his appearance and the two never met again. Hutchinson & Co unknown books
53241London: Macmillan and Co. 1913. Polar Exploration FIRST COLONIAL EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo 20 x 14cm pp.xviii; 497; 11; pp.x; 431; 1. With eight photographic plates including a frontispiece to each volume and a folding map at the rear of each volume. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles and blue stamped decoration to spines and upper boards. With dust-jackets showing an image of Captain Scott to the front cover. Some rubbing and spotting to edges. Light spotting and offsetting to endpapers. Light pencil annotations to contents page of volume II. A square cut-out of a newspaper column announcing the promotion of Sir E.R.G.R. Evans to Admiral taped to verso of illustrations list of volume I. Light occasional spotting. Tears to map joint corners. Cloth spines lightly faded. Jackets with chips from head and tail of spines and corners; toning to spines. Rarely seen in jackets. Near fine. Rosove 290.C1.a. London: Macmillan and Co., 1913 unknown
1938179852New York: Spanish Child Welfare Association of the American Friends Service Committee 1938. The elaborate bestiality of modern war First edition signed limited issue number 57 of 100 copies signed by Huxley. Created to raise money for the Quakers to distribute food in Spain the pioneering collection gathers 60 artworks produced by children during the Spanish Civil War. This copy retains the scarce donation form. An accompanying exhibition opened at the Lord & Taylor department store in New York City then travelled to museums in Boston and Worcester. By shining a light on the lives of children within Spain the project "was not just about denouncing the situation endured by these minors. They meant to open up a space where the latter could directly retell their own experiences" Fernández-Fontecha. This was one of the first times that "the image of children as innocent victims was visually developed within a war context" and contemporaneously to the conflict Fernández-Fontecha. Octavo. Captioned illustrations throughout. Original spiral-bound red card wrappers silver title label printed in blue on front cover. Rubbing to extremities nick to foot of front wrapper occasional offsetting from captions. A very good copy. Bromer B54.2. Leticia Fernández-Fontecha quoted in "Eighty years later book of children's drawings prefaced by Aldous Huxley sees the light in Spain" El País 16 July 2019. unknown
1932140941273New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1932. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth stamped in gilt with red topstain. Near Fine with light sunning to spine and edges pages toned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket edge-worn and with several masking tape reinforcements to the verso. 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. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc unknown books
1932140941273New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1932. First American Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth stamped in gilt with red topstain. Near Fine with light sunning to spine and edges pages toned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket edge-worn and with several masking tape reinforcements to the verso. 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. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc unknown
188857931London, Harrison and Sons, 1888. 8vo. In later full blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Proceedings of the Royal Society of London"", vol. XLIV. Entire volume offered. Soiling to extremities, endges of front board torn and upper front hindge with small tear. Library label pasted on to front free end-paper. Vague blindstamp to title-page of volume. Internally fine and clean. [Darwin's orbituary""] I-XXV pp. [Entire volume: viii, 464, XXXV, (1) pp.].
188857931London Harrison and Sons 1888. 8vo. In later full blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Proceedings of the Royal Society of London" vol. XLIV. Entire volume offered. Soiling to extremities endges of front board torn and upper front hindge with small tear. Library label pasted on to front free end-paper. Vague blindstamp to title-page of volume. Internally fine and clean. Darwin's orbituary; I-XXV pp. Entire volume: viii 464 XXXV 1 pp. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of Huxley's famous obituary of Darwin. "While Huxley was composing this and other expositions of technical education in the late 1880s he was also writing an obituary notice on Darwin for the Proceedings of the Royal Society. Though he undertook this piece in 1883 he did not complete it until five years later. In letters to Foster and Hooker in early 1888 Huxley remarked that he was still rereading Origin of Species trying to separate the "substance" of the theory from its "accidents" with the aim of warding off a generation of "hostile comments and would-be improvements.". Even though he had written at least a half-dozen abstracts of the work and was reading it he said "for the nth time" he was "getting along slowly" and finding it "one of the most difficult books to exhaust that ever was written." At this juncture in his life it seemed that Huxley had difficulty concluding what he had always concluded previously about Darwin's theory: that its points of central importance were the facts of variation the Malthusian principle of overpopulation and its consequence universal struggle. As Huxley finally came around to saying once again the obituary article it was immaterial how organisms differed from each other or why." White Thomas Huxley: Making the 'Man of Science P. 152Darwin-Online A344. </em> hardcover
1492A collection of original offprints in the fields of genetics heredity and evolution. From the library of Alfred Henry Sturtevant 1891-1970 renowned American geneticist. All items unless stated bear Sturtevant's signature and/or stamp and many are presentation copies. Included are works by Bateson Boveri Calvin Bridges Julian Huxley Jacques Loeb Raymond Pearl Reginald Punnett and Edmund Wilson. unknown
1958140943639New York: Harper & Brothers 1958. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition first printing. Signed by Aldous Huxley on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original grey-blue boards over black spine cloth stamped in blue and gilt. Near Fine with boards slightly sunned through dust jacket and former owner bookplate to front free endpaper. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear light soiling and light toning. A non-fiction work written nearly thirty years after the publication of Brave New World in which Huxley ponders whether the world had moved toward or away from his vision of the future from the 1930s. Harper & Brothers unknown
1931017974London: Chatto & Windus. 1931. Nathanael West's copy of Huxley's collection of poetry with West's holograph notes on five of the front and rear endpages. Approximately 250 words mostly quotes of other writers -- Huxley Gray Shakespeare; some light but most quite serious: "In matters of love it is absurd to stand on your dignity and claim your rights. Such experiences cannot be judged and calculated like a matter of business. One gives as much and as long as one can & one does not bargain. Take what is given to you." West concludes with: "The paths of glory lead but to the grave." The year this book was published West published his first novel. Later in the 1930s both West and Huxley were employed as Hollywood screenwriters. West died in 1940 at the age of 37. The provenance of this book leads from West to his brother-in-law S.J. Perelman to the writer and bookseller George Sims who recounts the circumstances of his purchasing books from Perelman in the early 1970s presumably including this one. A photocopy of a note from Sims is laid in. Fading to spine spotting to cloth short tear to lower front joint; still very good without dust jacket. Publisher's extra spine label tipped to rear free endpaper. A wonderful glimpse of West's musings and inner life. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
193386317Paris: Plon 1933. Fine. Plon Paris 1933 12 x 19 cm broché First French edition printed on alfa paper the only issue after 59 pure linen copies. Fine and rare copy. Plon unknown
1944140947235New York: Harper and Brothers 1944. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition first printing. Signed and dated 1960 by Aldous Huxley on the front free endpaper. vi 311 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt ruling and lettering to spine titles blocked in dark blue. Near Fine with slight lean to spine light soiling to endpapers. In Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear and modest rubbing and soiling to rear panel. Housed in a custom clamshell case half morocco over marbled paper. <p>First edition of Aldous Huxley's bildungsroman about a spoiled and materialistic young man finding his way to enlightenment. Signed copies of the first edition are scarce. Harper and Brothers unknown
1959146478New York: Harper & Brothers 1959. First edition of Huxley's classic work revisiting the premises of his iconic dystopian and prophetic novel published 28 years earlier and how this vision has come to fruition. Octavo original cloth. Boldly signed by Aldous Huxley on the half-title page. This title is rare signed as Huxley near the end of his life was nearly blind. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed. Published 28 years after Huxley’s nightmarish masterpiece Brave New World Revisited contains a concise analysis of how the author's grotesque vision of the future has in many ways already come to fruition. Huxley examines the ways in which Big Business and political propaganda have already established a "psychological slave trade" in addition to many other "Brave New World techniques" which increasingly threaten the freedom of the individual. Chapters include Propaganda in a Democratic Society The Arts of Selling Brainwashing Chemical Persuasion Hypnopaedia and Education For Freedom. Harper & Brothers hardcover
193386317Plon | Paris 1933 | 12 x 19 cm | broché
1932149102London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo bound in full leather by Exeter Bookbinders in a unique binding of a blue suit jacket and three titanium skull-shaped buttons to the front panel gilt titles to the spine "Bernard Marx" in gilt on the front panel. In near fine condition. Ownership inscription to the copyright page "Yes!!!! 1st edition." Exeter Bookbinders bookplate to the rear pastedown. "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
121714London Williams and Norgate 1863. . First edition first issue; 8vo; engraved frontispiece and illustrations within the text 8-page publisher's catalogue dated February 1863 at rear; occasional light spots and marks to the contents but generally clean; original green morocco-grained cloth titles to spine gilt borders to boards blocked in blind red coated endpapers printed with publisher's catalogue some marks dampstain and loss of size affecting the cloth corners and ends of spine a little bumped and worn small knock to the edge of the upper board very good condition; 159pp.<br /> First edition of the first book to apply Darwinian evolution to humans preceding Darwin's own account in The Descent of Man. With the first issue point identified by Hook and Norman the frontispiece printed on A2v forming an integral part of the preliminaries and a likely issue point the catalogue dated February 1863.<br /><br />'Huxley earned the nickname "Darwin's bulldog" for his outspoken defense of the theory of evolution through natural selection particularly as it pertained to man. The present work grew out of the famous Hippocampus minor controversy of the early 1860s in which Huxley publicly challenged the taxonomist Richard Owen's claim that man's brain differed qualitatively from those of all other mammals. Through a series of dissections of primate brains Huxley disproved Owen's assertions that only man's brain possessed a Hippocampus minor and demonstrated that the differences between men and apes were smaller than those between apes and the lower primates' Hook and Norman The Norman Library of Science and Medicine 1132.<br /><br />'Written to be accessible Man's Place in Nature was ignored by the highbrows and abominated by the religious press but acquired a cachet among the middle-class public no less than among National Reformer secularists and Russian and German socialists' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.<br /> Freeman British Natural History Books 1855; Hook & Norman The Norman Library of Science & Medicine 1132. London, Williams and Norgate, 1863. hardcover
1931150293London: Cassell and Company Limited 1931. First edition of "the first modern textbook of biology." Quarto original cloth illustrated. From the library of James D. Watson with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. James D. Watson was a molecular biologist geneticist and biophysicist best known for co-discovering the structure of DNA in 1953 alongside Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin. Their groundbreaking work on the double helix model of DNA laid the foundation for modern genetics and revolutionized the biological sciences. Watson’s contribution to science particularly in the field of molecular biology earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 shared with Crick and Maurice Wilkins. Beyond his scientific achievements Watson also played a key role in advancing genetic research through his leadership at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. His work and subsequent publications including The Double Helix 1968 which provides a personal account of the discovery have sparked significant ethical debates in the scientific community particularly regarding his controversial views on genetics and intelligence. In very good condition. The Science of Life is a book written by H. G. Wells Julian Huxley and G. P. Wells gives a popular account of all major aspects of biology as known in the 1920s. It has been called "the first modern textbook of biology" and "the best popular introduction to the biological sciences". Wells's most recent biographer notes that The Science of Life "is not quite as dated as one might suppose". In undertaking The Science of Life H. G. Wells who had published The Outline of History a decade earlier selling over two million copies desired the same sort of treatment for biology. He thought of his readership as "the intelligent lower middle classes . not idiots half-wits . greenhorns religious fanatics . smart women or men who know all that there is to be known". Julian Huxley the grandson of T. H. Huxley under whom Wells had studied biology and his son "Gip" a zoologist divided the initial writing between them; H. G. Wells revised dealt with the help of his literary agent A. P. Watt with publishers and acted as a strict taskmaster often obliging his collaborators to sit down and work together and keeping them on a tight schedule. H. G. Wells had begun the book during his wife's final illness and is said to have used work on the book as a way to keep his mind off his loss. The text as published is presented as the common work of a "triplex author". H. G. Wells took 40% of the royalties; the remainder was split between Huxley and Wells's son. In his will H. G. Wells left his rights in the book to G. P. Wells. Cassell and Company Limited hardcover
1923119728London: Chatto & Windus 1923. First edition of this classic novel. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For James Murphy thirty years later Aldous Huxley 1954." Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Uncommon signed and inscribed. London life just after World War I devoid of values and moving headlong into chaos at breakneck speed - Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay like Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists third-rate poets pompous critics pseudo-scientists con-men bewildered romantics cock-eyed futurists - all inhabit this world spinning out of control as wildly comic as it is disturbingly accurate. In a style that ranges from the lyrical to the absurd and with characters whose identities shift and change as often as their names and appearances Huxley has here invented a novel that bristles with life and energy what the New York Times called "a delirium of sense enjoyment!" Chatto & Windus hardcover books
