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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 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. <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
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
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
1932140946254New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1932. First American Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First American trade edition after the printing of 250 de luxe copies first printing. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth stamped in gilt with red topstain. Very Good with slight lean to binding rubbing to gilt lettering at spine bumped top right corner; light offsetting to endsheets. Front free endpaper top corner clipped; musty odor to contents. In a Very Good slightly tattered unclipped dust jacket with moderate toning light toning and patchy loss of color to spine and panels foxing. Interior tear to top of front panel near spine and other trivial tears to edges. 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
1932133208London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery hand-made Italian marbled endpapers all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional example. "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
28576Oxford: B. H. Blackwell. 1919. First edition first printing. First edition first printing. Signed by the author. Inscribed presentation copy. Mid-twentieth century full tan morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe ruled in gilt to the upper and lower boards five raised bands gilt decorated compartments and titles in gilt on brown morocco labels to the spine. Marbled endpapers inner dentelles double ruled in gilt. All edges gilt. With an illustrated title page and two plates in colour from the front and rear endpapers by William Roberts. A fine copy the binding square and firm. The contents are clean throughout. Inscribed by Edith Sitwell in blue ink on the half title "For / my dear Alberto / with much love / from his friend / Edith". The recipient is the distinguished and internationally admired Portuguese poet Alberto de Lacerda 1928-2007 Edith being an early champion and one of his greatest friends. Her inscription almost certainly dates from the time of the binding which may well have been commissioned for this presentation. The volume edited and with contributions by Edith Sitwell is notable for the first publication of seven poems by fallen soldier poet Wilfred Owen. The printed dedication reads "we dedicate this book to the memory of Wilfred Owen M.C." Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell. 1919 hardcover
357 - 855 - 659<p><em>First printing of Huxley's consumerist dystopian novel in an original dust jacket</em></p><p><strong>Publisher and Year</strong>: London: Chatto & Windus 1932 - <strong>Edition</strong>: First edition first printing with 1932 on the bottom of the title page and no reprint stated on the copyright page later printings would be so stated in an original dust jacket retaining the price of 7s 6d on the front flap. </p><p><strong>Condition and Description</strong>: Octavo original blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and decorative borders blue topstain 306 pp. Boards well-preserved with some rubbing to the surface and edges. Tips lightly worn. Gilt bright. Spine very slightly slanted. Sturdy hinges. Secure binding though occasionally over-opened and a crack forming at pages 16 and 145. All pages securely attached. Prior owner's elegant gift inscription in ink on the front free endpaper which is dated 1932. No other writing or owner markings. Light foxing to the preliminary and terminal leaves. The jacket exhibits significant loss to the spine ends front panel and rear panel; general surface wear; crumpling to the top edge; effaced patches to the rear panel; tanning to the spine strip; and spotting on the verso and flaps. An attractive copy of the first printing book in a worn jacket that preserves most of the iconic design. </p><p><em>"But I don't want comfort. I want God I want poetry I want real danger I want freedom I want goodness. I want sin."</em> A defining work of dystopian literature <em>Brave New World</em> imagines a future where stability is purchased at the expense of individuality emotion and truth. Huxley's vision remains as unsettling as ever a critique of engineered contentment and the erasure of the human spirit. Ranked #5 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century it remains essential reading nearly a century after its publication.</p><p>Inventory ID: 357 - 855 - 659</p> London: Chatto & Windus, 1932
19406055Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin 1940. Limited Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Alvin Lustig. 8vo. Pp. 28. Lustig decorations in red on the title and p. 7. Light gray laid paper-covered boards Lustig illustration printed in red and dark gray on the front board titles in dark gray on the spine: boards and leaves a tad age-toned. In the Lustig illustrated dust jacket printed red and dark gray on light gray laid paper: Spine sunned age-toned short closed tears at the spine head and top edge. Please see photos. Signed by Huxley beneath the colophon. One of "100 copies specially printed for Jake Zeitlin May 1940" at the Ward Ritchie Press. Addressed to educators an essay on the moral discipline of language use. Lustig's design evoking facets or folds was created with letterpress decorations. In Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig authors Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger cite the "stark juxtaposition of the author's signature isolated for greater effect and an abstract configuration of shapes referring to the inherent complexities found in systems of writing and their organizational syntax."<p>Referenced on pp. 36 and 40 in Born Modern The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig by Heller and Cohen-Lustig. Dust jacket preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.</p> . Jake Zeitlin hardcover
19319026711Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in publisher's original dark-blue cloth with blue stripe on either side of spine and gilded top edges. H. G. Wells' signature is stamped in gilt on the cover of each volume. One of 750 numbered sets. Volume One is signed in ink by each of the three authors. The frontispiece of each volume contains a colorful illustration in a theme related to the subject matter of the work. Many detailed black-and-white illustrations of biota throughout including photographs. Hardcover. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc hardcover
1873167597London: Macmillan and Co. 1873. Presented to one of Huxley's close friends at the Royal Society First edition presentation copy inscribed on the half-title: "John Evans esq from his friend T. H. Huxley". Huxley collaborated with Sir John Evans 1823-1908 the eminent archaeologist in the administration of several learned societies in London most notably the Royal Society. In 1873 Huxley was the society's biological secretary and would later serve as its president while Evans who was elected a fellow in 1864 would serve as its treasurer from 1878 to 1898. The two men were personal friends and corresponded on a wide range of subjects. Alongside his profession as a paper manufacturer Evans is credited with pioneering a more scientific approach to British archaeology. Two years after Huxley's Critiques was published Evans wrote a paper which applied Darwinian natural selection to the archaeological study of ancient British coins. The essays and addresses in this collection attest to Huxley's wide range of interests: education "The School Boards: What they can do and what they may do"; geology "On the Formation of Coal"; and Darwinian evolution "Palaeontology and the Doctrine of Evolution Darwin's Critics" among much else. Evans's attractive bookplate depicting a variety of antiquities and bearing the motto "I desire to deserve" is on the front pastedown. Octavo. Leaf of publisher's advertisements at rear. Original red pebbled cloth spine lettered ruled and with publisher's device in gilt covers with concentric panels in blind dark blue coated endpapers. Light bumping and wear to extremities light finger soiling to covers cosmetic split to front inner hinge moderate foxing to endpapers edges and initial leaves: a very good copy. hardcover
1932337130London: Chatto & Windus 1932. hardcover. fine. 306 pages. Short 8vo handsomely rebound in full aqua crushed morocco ornately gilt spine. London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First Edition. Fine.<br/> <br/> Chatto & Windus unknown
192137736London: Chatto and Windus 1921. First Edition. Author's first novel and extremely scarce in original dustjacket. Very Good despite some nicking to cheap cloth at top spine end in dustjacket lacking top two inches of spine some loss at flap corners Chatto and Windus hardcover
1928130871London: Chatto & Windus 1928. Signed limited first edition of Huxley's classic satiric novel one of 256 numbered copies this is number 254. Octavo original cloth gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Point Counter Point's title is a reference to the flow of arguments in a debate and a series of these exchanges tell the story. Instead of a single central plot there are a number of interlinked story lines and recurring themes as in musical "counterpoint". As a roman à clef many of the characters are based on real people most of whom Huxley knew personally such as D. H. Lawrence Katherine Mansfield Sir Oswald Mosley Nancy Cunard and John Middleton Murry and Huxley is depicted as the novel's novelist Philip Quarles. It was named by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. Chatto & Windus hardcover
195014076841950-1961. Other. An unnumbered pressing of an art piece by Jerome Salzmann titled "My Self-Doubt Goes On"; plus seven letters from artists and writers one of which is an inscribed photograph. The letters are dated 1950 1960 and 1961. Shelved in Room A Ephemera. <br /> <br> <br> <br /> Letter 1: Dated May 4 1950. From Norman Cousins who was a journalist and editor of The Saturday Review. One page TLS. On The Saturday Review stationary Cousins recommends Jerome Salzmann's work titled "Atomic Age Fables". Light age toning overall and light creasing from contemporary folding. <br /> <br> <br> <br /> Letter 2: Dated December 13 1960. From Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan who was Vice President of India at the time. Radhakrishnan gives encouragement to Jerome Salzmann for his work. Light age toning overall and light creasing from contemporary folding. <br /> <br> <br> <br /> Letter 3: Dated January 1st 1961. From British philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell. One page TLS plus the envelope. Russell apologizes for the delay in response and explains that he had been overwhelmed with correspondence since his release from prison. Light creasing from contemporary folding. <br /> <br> <br> <br /> Letter 4: Dated January 17 1961. From Julian Huxley English evolutionary biologist. One page TLS. Huxley rejects writing a formal letter for Salzmann who hopes to obtain a publisher. Light creasing from contemporary folding. <br /> <br> <br> <br /> Letter 5: Dated January 23 1961 Le 23 Janvier. From French author André Maurois. One page TLS. Text in French. Light age toning overall. <br /> <br> <br> <br /> Letter 6: Dated February 9th 1961. From Spanish diplomat and writer Salvador de Madariaga. One page TLS. Light age toning overall and light creasing from contemporary folding.<br /> <br> <br> <br /> Letter 7:Undated. From Danish author Karen Blixen. An inscribed photograph of Blixen with her cows with a hand-written note on the back. The photograph has light age toning. Jerome Salzmann is an artist and writer. He compiled an anthology on chess titled "The Chess Reader: The Royal Game in World Literature." 1407684. Special Collections - Upstairs. unknown
19311409501Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1931. Limited Edition #598/750. Hardcover. Octavos 4 Volumes. In Very Good condition. Bound in quarter blue cloth and blue paper boards bearing tan labels with black lettering to spines. Sunning and light soiling to spines. Labels slightly chipped. Scuffing to boards. General edges wear. Heavy rubbing to corners of boards. Top edge of textblocks gilt moderately scratched. Light soiling to fore and bottom edges of textblocks. Foxing to color plates and adjacent half title and title pages. Age toning with light smudging throughout interiors. Signed by Wells Huxley and Wells and enumerated on limitation page in front of Volume I. Shelved in Case 10. "The Science of Life" is often considered the "first modern textbook of biology." It was originally released in 31 serialized issues from 1929-1930 in the UK before being published in a three volume edition.<br /> <br> <br /> Author H.G. Wells 1866-1946 is best known for his groundbreaking science-fiction novels including "The Invisible Man" and "The War of the Worlds." Julian Huxley 1887-1975 was an evolutionary biologist and eugenicist. G. P. Wells 1901-1985 H.G. Wells' son was an author and zoologist.<br /> <br> <br /> Source: Wikipedia. 1409501. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc hardcover
2014107802Harry N. Abrams. New. 2014. Hardcover. 1419710958 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - -- with a bonus offer-- . Harry N. Abrams hardcover
