HUXLEY AldousMareMagnum
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8vo., First Edition; blue-green cloth, gilt back, blue top (mildly faded), uncut, covers very faintly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper.
2 vols., roy. 8vo., Second Impression, with 2 fine portrait frontispieces toned in sepia (original tissue guards present), 9 plates (original tissue guards present where called for) and an illustration in the text, neat contemporary signature on blank preliminary of first volume; original burgundy cloth, gilt back, uncut, backstrips faded (but all lettering just legible), backstrips slightly pulled at heads else a very good, crisp, clean set. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end of both volumes. Sold from an institution with its bookplates on front paste-downs and front free endpapers, and small blind stamp on titles. Published a month after the first edition.
8vo., Second Impression, free endpapers lightly browned; original burgundy cloth, gilt back, uncut, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. With publisher's advertisement leaf at end. Collects eleven essays relating to evolution, the 'Origin' and the aftermath, by one of Darwin's closest friends and staunchest supporters. Volume two of Huxley's 'Collected Essays' but complete in itself. First published in the previous year. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., boards gilt, cloth back gilt, uncut, cancelled stamp on title else a very good copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 550 COPIES
58p. Printed insert from the Author. 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, stained. Reminiscences of Lister's important discovery of "the Antiseptic System of Surgery." The lecture was first delivered in 1900, and published in the BMJ and The Lancet. This version has a corrected text. Lefanu 107. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! MED 1
8vo., First Edition; original brown buckram, backstrip with printed paper label, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. the latter unevenly sunned at backstrip.
8vo., First Edition thus, endpapers very lightly browned; original series binding of grey ribbed cloth, gilt back, grey top, pictorial endpapers, a near fine copy. EL 498; Seymour 547.0.
Book is in excellent condition with a tiny bit of edge wear only . Creaseless covers and spine, red tinted page ends, translated by the same Christopher Isherwood who wrote Berlin Stories about gay life at the time, having been introduced to Swami Prabhavananda by Aldous Huxley. Isherwood continued to work with his Guru Prabhavananda over the next 35 years in the Vedanta Society. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind, save previous owner's name and date inside front cover. 143 pages. Mentor # M103. Age toned paper. Publisher's page reads "First Printing, February , 1954"
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear to cover. Previous owner's bookplate inside. Stated First Edition. 104 pages.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; pale green cloth, backstrip with printed paper label, green top, uncut, backstrip lightly sunned, two corners mildly bruised else a very good, clean copy. With spare paper label tipped-in at end. SCARCE. Muir and Van Thal, p.25
8vo., First Edition, endpapers lightly browned; grey cloth, gilt back, blue top, a bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter very lightly frayed and creased at edges.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers, neat signature on front free endpaper; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Dustwrapper artwork by Delia Delderfield. 'I didn't choose Oaksey it chose me'. From 1974-5 Huxley recorded this evocative diary of Wiltshire village life. Cross and Perkin A39.
8vo., First Edition, with frontspiece and illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, dustwrapper offset to backstrip else a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly faded at backstrip. Cross & Perkin A28a.
8vo., First Edition, small neat signature on front paste-down; burgundy cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at folds-ins and with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Huxley reviews the facts concerning cancer in the light of modern biological advances, and concludes that its study can no longer be regarded merely as a specialised branch of medicine but is a focal field of general biology.
Paris, Plon, " Choses Vues ", 1932. In-12, broché, 290 pp. Edition originale de la traduction française sur papier d'Alfa.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Slight wear to cover. Previous owner's inscription inside. 7 1/2"w x 6 1/2"h. 84 pages. 25 color illustrations, with texts by Eugene Berman, Paul Horgan, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, and Stephen Spender and a biographical note by Robert Craft.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece and 25 plates on 13; grey cloth, gilt back, backstrip a little faded else a very good, clean copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue of the author's works at end. SCARCE. Muir and Van Thal, p.280
[biografia](cm. 24,3) cartonato editoriale verde.sovracoperta figurata. taglio superiore verde. -pp.296. Con alcune illustrazioni fotografiche in nero di momenti di vita dell'autore. Il testo ripercorre l'intera vita di Huxley, dai primi anni di vita, al periodo di Oxford, Napoli, Germania, viaggi in Africa e Russia. in fine alla prefazione riproduzione della firma autorgrafa dell'autore. Buon esemplare good copy in english Libro
8vo., First Edition, fore-edges a little dust-soiled; green cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps in the text and large folding map at end; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities. With the separately printed erratum slip mounted facing Foreword. Cross & Perkin A33a.
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, 59 plates and 5 maps in the text, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, tiny neat signature on front free endpaper; orange cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with loss (affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Cross & Perkin, A.18.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, title-vignette, plates, illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; pictorial cloth, backstrip lettered in cream, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. Revised and amended version (with new binding and illustrations) of the original FS edition of 1976. Cross & Perkin A40(a)
In-8 (cm. 21), brossura, pp. 407, (3). Prima edizione italiana. In buono stato di conservazione (good copy).
Book is in excellent condition with a tiny bit of edge wear only . Creaseless covers and spine, translated by the same Christopher Isherwood who wrote Berlin Stories about gay life at the time, having been introduced to Swami Prabhavananda by Aldous Huxley. Isherwood continued to work with his Guru Prabhavananda over the next 35 years in the Vedanta Society. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 143 pages. Mentor # MT711. Publishing date is estimated.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Cross & Perkin A46.
