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1936HUXLEYAL003106Chatto & Windus London. 1936. First edition. Octavo. A 620-page novel.Edges faintly spotted. Near fine in very good dustwrapper a bit faded at the spine and with a few short closed tears. Chatto & Windus, London. unknown
193123652London: Chatto and Windus 1931. A first edition first printing published by Chatto and Windus in 1931. A near fine copy without inscriptions in like wrapper which is NOT browned on the spine with one small nick to the head of the spine. Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels and wide-ranging output of essays he also published short stories poetry travel writing and film stories and scripts. Chatto and Windus unknown
66967Botany Plant hunting . 1st. Ed. Pub. John Murray. 1918. Two volume set with portrait frontis. to each volume and one fold-out map as published. 8vo. Hardbacks. With bookplate of A. Logan Turner an eminent Scottish surgeon to front pastedowns of both volumes. Small lib. stamp possibly that of a private library to title page and p.41 of both vols. Cords stretched at p.340 in Vol. I. o/w. contents fine. Original navy blue bindings with gilt armorials to front boards and gilt lettering to spine in thor. vg. / nr. fine condition. With a copy of John Murrays original 4-page illustrated pre-publication advertisement for the Life and Letters loosely inserted. Also comes with a lengthy article on Sir Joseph Hooker in support of the publication of Life and Letters from The Spectator dated August 17 1918 loosely inserted. Unique set. Botany Plant hunting hardcover
1954mon0000994005Chatto and Windus 1954. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. 1st edition 1st impression. Pages clean no markings wear to edges. Chatto and Windus hardcover
1990000046Great Britain: Harvill 1990 A portrait of one of the most fascinating countries in the world in nine sections by writers Elspeth Huxley Karen Blixen Winston Churchill Jomo Kenyatta Ernest Hemingway Richard Leakey Beryl Markham Shiva Naipaul Theodore Roosevelt and Evelyn Waugh. Exploration travel. settlementwar hunting wildlife entertainment life-style and legend. The story of Kenya from AD100 to the present.Cover creased and scuffed on edges. 450 pages. A good reading copy with some maps. Orders over $100.00 are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall Harvill paperback
2014__1634632680Nova Science Pub Inc 2014. Hardcover. New. 99 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. Nova Science Pub Inc hardcover
1932229499Toronto: The Musson Book Company Limited 1932. 1st Canadian Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-/No Jacket. 8vo: 5 x 7 1/2. 306 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Previous owner's signature and stamp on the ffep. Endpapers are lightly foxed. Page edges are lightly darkened and spotted. Bound in blue cloth with black titles on the spine. Worn and lightly bumped around the edges. Wrinkled and faded on the spine. Lower cover lightly faded and scuffed. 1ST CANADIAN EDITION. SCARCE. VG-/- - <br/> <br/> The Musson Book Company Limited hardcover
1913015581London: Smith Elder & Co. 1913. Second Edition . Cloth Bound Boards. Very Good. With Photogravure Frontispiece 6 Original Sketches in Photogravure By Dr. E. A. Wilson 18 Coloured Plates 16 from Drawings By Dr. Wilson 260 Full-page and Smaller Illustrations from Photographs Taken By Herbert G. Ponting and Other Members of the. 1913 The second edition. Complete in Two volumes. Size quarto 633 and 534 pages. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the front cover and spine top edge gilt other edges unevenly trimmed marbled paste-downs and end-papers. Condition very good corners spine ends and hinges a bit rubbed cloth a little chipped at the head and tail of spine on volume I front hinges a bit loose on volume I contents are very clean throughout. With Photogravure Frontispiece 6 Original Sketches in Photogravure By Dr. E. A. Wilson 18 Coloured Plates 16 from Drawings By Dr. Wilson 260 Full-page and Smaller Illustrations from Photographs Taken By Herbert G. Ponting and Other Members of the Expedition; Panoramas and Maps. Size: 4to - over 9" - 12" tall <br/> <br/> Smith, Elder & Co. hardcover
192436432New York: George H. Doan Compnay 1924. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Book plate small book store sticker. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. George H. Doan Compnay hardcover
6441976Taylor & Francis Group pp. 212 . Hardback. New. Taylor & Francis Group hardcover
1859519550London: London Stereoscopic Comp'y/ London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company 1859. Unbound. Fine. Albumen print cabinet card measuring 4" x 5.75" on slightly larger printed cardstock mount. The oval vignette image depicts Huxley in three-quarter profile wearing a suit and bow-tie. Printed beneath the image: "Professor Huxley." Photographer's imprint on recto and verso. Image has a few tiny spots from the negative else the photograph and mount are in fine condition. Huxley was an important English scientist and an early advocate of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. London Stereoscopic Comp'y/ (London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company) unknown
1953191421953. Huxley Alduous. Brave New World. New York: Bantam Books 1953. Contains 266 pages about 4.5" x 6.5." Pulp cover art depicts a naked man leading a brunette woman away from a sleek futuristic skyline and presumably into the "natural world." Text below title reds " The mighty novel of a soulless streamlined Eden--and the two who escape it." Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred socially indoctrinated and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order-all at the cost of freedom full humanity and perhaps also souls. Mass-market paperback sustains discoloration and some scuffs; spine panel is chipped and stress-creased. Consistent age toning throughout. Otherwise in good condition. unknown
1939396571London: Chatto and Windus 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. A touch cocked with some sunning to the spine and the bottom edge of the front board very good. Distinctive ownership Signature of Elsa Schiaparelli on the title page. Schiaparelli was one of the world’s premiere designers during the 1930s who pioneered numerous now-iconic fashions elements such as the divided skirt trompe-l'oeil detailing synthetic materials and exposed fasteners and as well as incorporated surrealist designed into her work through her collaboration with Jean Cocteau and Salvador Dali. A Burgess 99 title. Chatto and Windus hardcover
192858996London: Chatto & Windus 1928. First trade edition. 601 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Orange cloth. Fine in slightly chipped at corner cream unclipped dust jacket. First trade edition. 601 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Chatto & Windus unknown
1926366793London: Chatto and Windus 1926. First edition. 272 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth gilt. Slight discoloration at board edges. Very good plus in near fine dust jacket some age toning. First edition. 272 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Collects "Two or Three Graces" "The Monocle" "Half-Holiday" and "Fairy Godmother". Chatto and Windus unknown
1956544355New York: Crown Publishers 1956. Hardcover. Very Good. Fourth impression. Octavo. 310pp. illustrated with color plates from photographs. Publisher's blue cloth boards gilt spine. The spine and top edge of front cover is sunned slight damage on the back cover fore-edge a two-inch tear else very good or better a nice and tight copy. Inscribed by Huxley in ink on his business card taped onto the front free endpaper to William Eastlake a noted novelist of the American Southwest and his wife Martha Simpson. A nice association. Crown Publishers hardcover
1903002825New York: D. Appleton and Company 1903 ASSOCIATION COPY - signed on the ffp "Paul Watkins Winona Minn" of the Watkins Products Company. xv 1 329pp 1 6 pages of Publisher's advertising. Bound in original maroon cloth with gilt on spine still bright binding and hinges tight. Some pages are uncut. ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT. ETHNOLOGY. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
189425-0584New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1894. not dated c. 1894 approx. 2800pp frontis to each volume "Authorized Edition" Number 320 of 1000 copies blue cloth w/ gilt signature to cover & lettering to spine blindstamped design to cover teg deckled pg edges includes: 1. Methods and Results -Essays; 2. Darwiniana - Essays; 3. Science and Education - Essays; 5. Science and Christian Tradition - Essays; 6. Hume with Helps to the Study of Berkeley - Essays; 7. Man's Place in Nature and Other Anthropological Essays; & 8. Discourses Biological and Geological - Essays missing v. 4 Science and Hebrew Traditions - Essays & v. 9 Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays slight shelfwear to cover a couple volumes w/ light insect damage to spines all volumes w/ owner's name to front free ep or front flyleaf some damage to v. 5 - rear inner hinge is broken last numbered pg has a couple tears & creases rest of blank pgs at rear have crease to them small tear to bottom of spine contents clean & unmarked overall a nice looking set heavy may require extra shipping. Cloth. Very Good -/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. D. Appleton & Co. Hardcover
1928018283London / New York: Peter Davies Limited / Harper & Brothers 1928. Very Good condition. Light corner wear with one small chip. This copy belonged to MERLE ARMITAGE. The front free endpaper is signed by him and the pastedown endpaper has his Rockwell Kent designed bookplate. Bruce Rogers believed Armitage was "the best of the modern book designers -- by far." Introduction by Aldous Huxley. Printed in England at The Curwen Press. Illustrated with 122 plates mostly type specimens many printed in colors. Some of the plates are integrated with the text; others appear in a section at the end. Complete with erratum slip tipped-in. Laid-in is a March 10 1929 Los Angeles Times article by Merle Armitage about a T. M. Cleland exhibition arranged by Jake Zeitlin. The rear endpaper has a tiny bookstore label from Zeitlin Books in Los Angeles. Bound in the original boards covered with a blue pattern on cream color paper and a cream cloth spine stamped with blue lines and lettered in bright gold. Oversize Hardcover. 10" wide by 13.25" tall. This large heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments but only the standard charge for media mail. Signed by Merle Armitage. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. xix 83pp. plates 180 total pages. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Peter Davies Limited / Harper & Brothers Hardcover
2013BN193357Important Books 2013. 2013. Softcover. Brave New World <br/><br/>Brave New World Aldous Huxley Important Books paperback
BN299828Brave New World - Huxley Aldous <br/><br/>Brave New World - Huxley Aldous Aldous Huxley unknown
BN210868München/Zürich Piper & Co. 2. neu durchgesehene Auflage 4.-7. Tausend 1978. Die Teufel von Loudun <br/><br/>Die Teufel von Loudun Aldous Huxley München/Zürich, Piper & Co., 2., neu durchgesehene Auflage, 4.-7. Tausend, 1978 unknown
BN304634Schöne neue Welt und Wiedersehen mit der Schönen neuen Welt <br/><br/>Schöne neue Welt und Wiedersehen mit der Schönen neuen Welt Aldous Huxley unknown
1984BN135655Christian Verlag München 1984. 1984. Unser grünes Erbe. Die Bedeutung der Pflanzen für das Leben auf der Erde. <br/><br/>Unser grünes Erbe. Die Bedeutung der Pflanzen für das Leben auf der Erde. Anthony Huxley Christian Verlag, München unknown
1975BN230348Bloomsbury 3PL 1975. 1975. Hardcover. Settlers of Kenya <br/><br/>Settlers of Kenya Elspeth Huxley Unknown Bloomsbury 3PL hardcover