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193813491ENew York: Harpers 1938. First Edition - American. Near fine copy with a 1†sliver of darkening to the cloth at the bottom edge of the front cover near the spine in a very good lightly dust soiled dust jacket with some tiny chips and tears and a neat 1/2†corner cut from the top of the rear flap. A jewel theft and a murder are at the heart of this mystery set in a luxurious Africa safari. Harpers hardcover
1872267086New York: Appleton 1872. 85 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Purple wrappers paper label on upper cover. 85 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Appleton unknown
18454106London: n.p. 1845. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Unbound in a protective wrapper. First and only edition of this very scarce article by Huxley in which he identifies "Huxley's layer" and "membrane" of the root sheath of hair follicles. G&M 412. [n.p.] unknown
19324838<p>First Edition/First Printing with no additional printings mentioned; A Near Fine book in a Good dust jacket. A handsome copy of this important work in evolutionary biology from Sir Julian Huxley the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley a leading early proponent of Darwinism and important biologist. Julian Huxley became a leading evolutionary biologist during the early to mid 20th century; this text is an important work an account of the study of allometry or the relative growth of body parts to the growth of the whole; this work still a basis for the study of analytical morphology. This copy is in near fine condition with light rubbing to the board edges mild age-toning to the text block and a previous owner's signature to the front free paper the owner Grant D. Darker was a prominent biologist in his own right from Harvard and the University of Toronto. Housed in a good original dust jacket with chipping and tearing to all edges with a small loss of material and the front flap detached. A scarce title in the first printing particularly retaining the original dust jacket. Not remaindered not price-clipped not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.</p> The Dial Press hardcover
1913RSCOSCO00tpmSmith Elder & Co. 1913. Very Good. Scott R. F. Scott's Last Expedition In Two Volumes. 2 volume set in folding box. Huxley Leonard. London: Smith Elder & Co. 1913. 2nd edition. 633 534pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Very good with rubbed extremities and slightly faded spines. Pages are subtly toned. The second volume has slightly ragged page edges and a previous owner's marks on the front endsheet. The first volume has a newspaper clipping that shows an image of Scott on a sled. Each volume has protective mylar and they both fit snugly in the custom box. Smith, Elder & Co. unknown
1913o0546osNew York: Dodd Mead and Company 1913. Account of the successful but doomed expedition volume one containing Scott's journals; volume two the scientific work & other accounts of the expedition; a key element in any polar collection. First American edition. Hardcovers full slate grey cloth gilt titling. Shows some wear & rubbing; engraved portrait of Scott affixed inside each front cover; minor damage to endsheets as if something were once taped to each inside cover; sporadic foxing within not severe. Text clean; xxiv 443; xiv 376 pages; index appendices maps many photos color plates - all present as called for with extra unlisted color plates in volume one. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 6¾" by 9¾". Set. Dodd, Mead and Company Hardcover
1913MAIN035278INY: Dodd Mead. Both volumes VG NO djs. 1913. 1st US. hardcover. 8vo . 441 376pp . Lightly pencilled name both volumes. Top edges gilt. Spine lettering good but not brilliant. Hinges excellent condition. A little toning onto title pages from frontis though flimsies are present. "Published November 1913" on verso. Scans on request. . Dodd, Mead hardcover
1931032269Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co. Inc. 1931. First edition. 1931. Publisher's/Salesman Hardcover Dummy Edition without dust jacket as issued. 8vo with 114 pages. All title pages and front endpapers are bound in. Facsimile of the signed limited page is shown. The spine of the forthcoming book is laid in the rear The book is in good condition with some shelf wear to bottom of binding and corners. Interior is clean and tight. All four frontispieces are reporoduced in this salesman's copy. Facsimile of Binding for the signed limited edition is bound to rear paste down. These specimen books were used by the agents of subscription publishers to entice customers to purchase a copy of a work in advance of delivery especially used for sets of books as "The Science of Life" was. Blue spine/no text. #032269. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. 8vo. Publisher's Dummy Edition. Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc. Hardcover
Features: Cover photo of the statue of J.Q.A. Ward in Central park; D-Day - An account of the operation from twelve hours before the first seaborne landing to twelve hours after, by Hanson W. Baldwin; France's first year under Charles de Gaulle; Great photo feature on Ethel Merman who stars in "Gypsy"; When the Public Judges the Supreme Court; Science, Psychiatry - or Witchery? - Elspeth Huxley examines what, if anything, the witch doctor does for his patients that might be of value for the rest of the world; Big League Pitching - In addition to brawn, a pitcher needs a brain; Fashion photos of women's sunshade suits; The Business of Baby-Sitting; Danish recipes; How to show off art in your home; One-page ad for Phillies Cheroot cigars inside front cover; and more. 48 pages. Many fascinating black and white reproductions of photos plus nice fashion ads, some of which are in color. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1978207508Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good Leather Bound. Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. Owner bookplate on half title page. Easton Press hardcover
195153267Paris: Plon 1951. Fine. Plon Paris 1951 12 x 19 cm broché First edition in French one of 60 numbered copies on alfa paper the only large paper copies. Spine very slightly yellowed otherwise a good copy. Plon unknown
19541740663231IEVChatto & Windus 1954. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1954. Second Impression. 63 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is clear. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Minor sunning to spine. Visible wear marks to spine and panels. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1941793P55London: Penns in the Rocks Press by William Collins 1941. First edition. Leather. Fine. 9.5" by 6.5". Not Stated. A finely bound first edition travel work on East Africa in a striking binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe made for Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. The first edition of this work.A charming concise travel work on East Africa by Elspeth Huxley part of the series 'The British Commonwealth in Pictures'.Illustrated with twelve colour plates and monochrome illustrations throughout.Collated complete.Huxley was an author journalist farmer and also the cousin of the author Aldous Huxley.In a striking binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Pleydell-Bouverie was a close friend of Stanley Bray who worked at the firm for over 60 years. He often bound books for her as gifts.From the library of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie from her library at Julians Park Hertfordshire. After being widowed at 25 Audrey married the fabulously wealthy American department store heir Marshall Field III later divorcing him and marrying the Honorable Peter Pleydell-Bouverie. In 1940 she bought Julians Park and redesigned the interior. Her library was impressive with many examples of her own bookbinding.Audrey was an extravagant socialite and renowned beauty the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII though she was also rumoured to be his daughter or the lover of King Edward VIII featured in the 'Book of Beauty' by Cecil Beaton. She had many high profile friends such as Winston Churchill Coco Chanel Fred Astaire and Nancy Mitford a sparkling hostess of the Edwardian period her hedonistic antics bringing her into the Bright Young Things. In a half morocco binding with patterned paper to the boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Externally fine. A couple of very faint marks to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine Penns in the Rocks Press by William Collins hardcover
1923HUXLEYAL000690Chatto & Windus London. 1923. First edition. Octavo. pp iv 328. Spare title-label at rear.Free endpapers partially tanned. Tail of spine slightly pushed. Near fine in very good slightly nicked and rubbed dustwrapper darkened at the spine and with a chip at head of spine. Chatto & Windus, London. unknown
122250London Chatto & Windus 1924. . First edition first impression; 8vo; offsetting to endpapers else unmarked internally; publisher's red cloth white paper label to spine lettered in red with the dustjacket priced '7s. 6d. net' on spine spine panel tanned minor spotting to rear panel; very good indeed.<br /> A lovely copy Huxley's third collection of short stories.<br /> London, Chatto & Windus, 1924. hardcover
192810468London; Chatto & Windus 1928. 1928. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo pp. 8 601 1. Bound in burnt orange cloth with gilt titles. Top edge orange. In the unclipped original publisher's cream dust-jacket with red borders. Cloth clean and vibrant with bright gilt. Lightly foxed to fore-edges and endpapers else contents very clean and free from inscriptions and annotations. Dust-jacket spine-sunned with miniscule chips and nicks to dust-jacket edges rubbed to edges else clean and unclipped. A Very Good copy in a Very Good dust-jacket. First edition first impression of a book widely considered to be Huxley's "most complex and ambitious work" scarce in the original 1928 dust-jacket. A modern literary classic by one of the best known authors of the inter-war years. London; Chatto & Windus, 1928. hardcover
4412Chatto & Windus 1959 1st edition . 288 pages frontispiece : memories of an East African childhood among the Kikuyu just before WW1; hardback tiny mark to spine barely visible ow vg vg dw closed tear repaired small rub to spine not price-clipped protected from the library of Terence Gavaghan SIGNED by Elspeth Huxley to the title page UNIQUE afmar25 Chatto & Windus 1959 1st edition hardcover
19029798London: Macmillan and Co 1902. Two volumes of Huxley's essays owned and annotated at Glencorse Barracks in Midlothian by 'Muldoon' Haldane nephew of the Secretary for War the Scottish lawyer Viscount Haldane. At the time he acquired these books in 1902 Maldwyn Haldane had recently been commissioned in the Royal Scots Regiment following on from study at University College London and Jesus College Cambridge. He would go on to be the first graduate recruit to the Special Intelligence Service MO5 - the predecessor organisation to MI5. Haldane has inscribed both books: 'M M Haldane The Royal Scots. Glencorse January 1902' on the first flyleaf. Science and Education is the 1899 edition; Discourses 1896. Both have the bookseller's ticket of William George Bristol. Both books are in good plus condition with a distinct whiff of tobacco when opened. Haldane has read Huxley's 1880 essay on 'Science and Culture' Discourses with particular attention clipping page corners and adding a half page of notes at the end of the essay: 'Education should therefore begin with science - 1st with what Huxley called Erdkinder.' In the official history of MI5 Maldwyn Haldane is singled out for the breadth of his intellectual interests. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1902 Macmillan and Co unknown
19213065<p>First edition first print. VG. Octavo. Huxley's first novel. Original yellow cloth paper title label to spine printed in green top edge green but faded. Outer boards clean and bright. Spine label soiled and faded. Endpapers toned with an owner inscription/stamp on FFEP owner's bookplate on front and rear board. Interior is clean with no foxing. Square and solid copy.</p> Chatto and Windus hardcover
1999DADAX0632040475Wiley-Interscience 1999-03-22. 1. hardcover. New. 7.80x1.10x10.10. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Wiley-Interscience hardcover
35426London: Chatto and Windus 1928. . First edition 8vo. pp.iii601 terracotta cloth gilt top edges red; foxing to edges spine lightly rolled else clean and very good in very good complete unclipped dust-jacket which has 2.5cm closed tear to head of rear flap-fold and light creasing to extremities - now in a protective cover. London: Chatto and Windus, 1928. hardcover
1932239313Garden City. : Doubleday Doran & Company. 1932. First American edition. . Decorated hard cover. . Fine owner name on end paper copy. . Octavo. . Very scarce in this condition. Doubleday, Doran & Company. hardcover
1946508430Chatto & Windus 1946. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. First British Edition following the US edition of the previous year. 12mo 358pp. Sewn binding in brick red cloth with gilt spine lettering red topstain. Bit of foxing very clean and sharp otherwise. DJ with a small chip at the spine head abutting the author name and losing the very tip of the 'l' and 'd' just a hint of fading to the spine but much brighter than typically seen with this red jacket price intact and now wrapped in mylar. With a neat inscription and bookplate from the noted South African book collector Michael Scott whose collection is now mainly housed at the University of Stellenbosch. Chatto & Windus hardcover
186300009562New York: D. Appleton and Company 1863. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 5 4-150 8 including 6 unnumbered pages of publisher's advertisements pp. Dark green pebbled cloth with paper label on the spine light yellow endpapers and pastedowns. A few in-text diagrams and illustrations. Contemporary owner's name and date written on free front endpaper George R. Brush a surgeon in the US Navy from the time of the Civil War until his death in 1895 tiny collector's sticker on the front pastedown and a brief inscription on the final page indicating Brush completed reading the book on May 29 1865 on board the steamship Guatemala near Puntarenas with Professor Seebach on board Karl von Seebach was a well-known geologist at Gottingen who published work on Central American volcanos and was presumably returning from the extended trip he made to perform this research. ADB: Seebach Karl Albert Ludwig von; Oxford DNB Adrian Desmond "Huxley Thomas Henry"; Suffolk County News New York March 7 1902 p. 3. Huxley was an early advocate of Darwinism and in fact was the first to use the term 'Darwinism' and did much to popularize and support the theory of evolution in the nineteenth century. The present work is based on lectures delivered by Huxley during the period 1860 - 1863 in which he explained Darwin's ideas to a more popular audience. An attractive copy of this book from an important period in the history of science. A Very Good volume with toning to the first and final blank leaves a few traces of minor discoloration to the cloth and darkening and a tiny bit of loss to the spine label. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
97696London Chatto & Windus 1954 1st edition. Hardback 7.5 x 5 ins. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper DW some rubbing and small nicks to corners and edges chip to top end of spine tanned on rear. Not price clipped. In protective sleeve. Some darkening/foxing to cloth. Endpapers partially darkened. Neat previous owners’ inscription to front. A couple of mninor foxing spots to outer page edges else inside pages all clean and tight. 63 pp. Mr. Huxley submitted himself as a “guinea-pig” to mescaline the active principle of a drug peyotl long know to the Mexican Indians. He then discusses the moral and spiritual implications of this experience. London, Chatto & Windus 1954 1st edition, hardcover
