HUXLEY Thomas H.ABAA
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1863869971863. HUXLEY Thomas H. ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES: or the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature. A Course of Six Lectures to Working Men. NY D. Appleton 1863. 8vo. 150pp. 3ff. ads. First American edition. Pebbled cloth with paper spine label. Wear to extremities; light rubbing; chips to label; internally fine but for two faint library stamps on front pastedown. Bookplate. Huxley was Professor of Natural History at the Jermyn Street School of Mines. Uncommon. unknown books
19329026579Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1932. 1st . Hardcover. Very good/fair. Binding shows fading at the edges. Dust jacket missing a portion of the front cover and chipped at the extremities. <br/><br/> Doubleday Doran hardcover books
19255834New York. George H. Doran Company. 1925. Bound in 1/2 vellum and paper covered boards. 8vo. Large Paper Edition Limited to 250 numbered copies of which this is #95. Signed by Aldous Huxley. Spine label half chipped off with glue residue and various staining to vellum spine else Near Fine. A tight copy. George H. Doran Company. hardcover books
1937WRCLIT57472London: Chatto & Windus 1937. Cloth and decorated boards t.e.g. Fore-tips rubbed small rub-mark on spine otherwise a very good or better copy. First edition limited issue. One of 160 numbered copies 150 for sale specially printed and bound and signed by the author. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1931140939330New York: The Fountain Press 1931. Signed Limited Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing; One of a limited 842 copies signed by the Aldous Huxley on the limitation page. Publisher's marbled paper over black cloth spine with title label. Very Good with rubbing to corners and edges chip to title label. Pages toned light small staining to front free endpaper. An increasingly uncommon collection of essays signed by the author best known for his novel Brave New World. The Fountain Press unknown books
193072687London:: Chatto & Windus. Very Good. 1930. Hardcover. B0060PD6ZA . Limited edition: this copy is number 75 of 260 copies. SIGNED by the author. Octavo bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering along the spine decorated paper covered boards top edge gilt. Some light age toning to boards else very good or better. No dust jacket as issued. ; 59 pages . Chatto & Windus, hardcover books
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 books
1872267086New York: Appleton 1872. 85 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Purple wrappers paper label on upper cover. 85 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Appleton unknown books
537286233 Mulholland Los Angeles 28/Cal 8/viii/62. 1 page. 4to. About Fine remnant of paper at bottom from album. 1 page. 4to. unknown books
1936115671London: Chatto & Windus 1936. Signed limited edition one of 160 copies this is number 41. Octavo original cloth. Boldly signed by Aldous Huxley. In near fine condition. This is one of the best collections of essays that Mr. Huxley has ever made. The title-piece is a completely new departure in technique from anything he has written before: a meditation darting from topic to topic on the olive tree and the associations which it has for the author. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
193021338London: Chatto & Windus 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated boards and dark salmon spine. Teg. Very good. 59 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. First edition. Limited edition copy 235 of 250 signed by Huxley. Huxley takes on vulgar in a similar manner to his pointed take on the social reality of a prostitute using a bath tub. Then the fun begins. Covers front and back slightly darkened. Literature 3. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
19269026780London: Chatto & Windus at the Florence Press 1926. 1st . Hardcover. Very good. One of 650 numbered copies signed by Aldous Huxley. Spine and edges are sunned. Lacks slipcase. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus at the Florence Press hardcover books
19319026782New York & London: Fountain Press & Chatto & Windus 1931. 1st . Hardcover. Very good. One of 840 numbered copies signed by Aldous Huxley. Bound in marbled paper covered boards with black cloth spine printed paper label on spine. Glassine dust cover is torn. Corners and edges show minor wear. Lacks slipcase. <br/><br/> Fountain Press & Chatto & Windus hardcover books
193448042London: Chatto & Windus 1934. Edition limited to 210 copies signed by Huxley this no. 202 8vo pp. xii 318 2; 30 photoreoproductive plates; green cloth-backed pattern paper boards t.e.g.; spine toned. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
194958529London: Trianon Press 1949. First edition limited to 1000 copies as distributed by Faber & Faber; there were also 100 reserved for the Trianon Press 100 reserved for Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Los Angeles and 12 hors commerce each numbered and signed; folio pp. 3-34 4; frontispiece and 18 plates plate 7 repeated to show first and second states; near fine in original brown cloth gilt lettering on spine. Huxley departs from Bentham's vision of the efficient prison and discusses the phenomenon of the panopticon. Ahead of his time this same architectural scheme shared by hospitals prisons and schools would be heavily criticized by Michel Foucalt in his controversial Discipline and Punish. Piranesi's etchings exhibit an almost attractively gothic approach to prison architecture. <br/><br/> Trianon Press hardcover books
1929180902008London: Chatto & Windus 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Number 164 of 260 numbered copies signed by Aldous Huxley. Yellow and white patterned paper-covered boards over green spine cloth with titles in gilt top edge gilt. Covers a bit soiled spine lettering dulled top corner of upper board is chipped. A collection of essays from the author Brave New World. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
600104"Julian S. Huxley" on University of London King's College printed letterhead February 18 1929. 1 page 8vo. Fine fresh. To Mr. Thomas: Huxley sends a book another is to follow and he has forwarded letters to his brother and H.G. Wells etc. Huxley was working on his book "Science of Life" along with H.G. Wells at this time. Huxley 1887-1975 Leading English biologist and writer; brother of Aldous Huxley. Signed by Authors. F. Soft cover. paperback books
197007790New York: Harper & Row 1970. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED AND FROM THE LIBRARY OF FRANCIS CRICK. A Fine hardback First American Edition First Printing in a Near Fine Dust Jacket with minimal edge wear. An autobiography of Julian Huxley older brother of Aldous who considered himself a generalist but who has achieved much success throughout his life particularly in the field of science. 8vo. 296 pp. <br/><br/> Harper & Row hardcover books
186316625London: Robert Hardwicke 1863. Robert Hardwicke unknown books
19319027001London: Chatto & Windus 1931. 1st . Hardcover. Fine. One of 160 numbered copies signed by Huxley. Shows wear and rubbing at the extremities but still a very good copy. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1927140939853London: Oxford University Press 1927. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. xvi 344 pp. with fold-out chart. Publisher's navy cloth lettered in gilt. A hint of rubbing to gilt at foot faint stain droplets to rear board else Fine. A very neat clean copy of a biology textbook by two eminent British scientists and philosophers. Uncommon in such nice shape. Oxford University Press unknown books
1926215309London: at the Florence Press. Chatto & Windus 1926. First edition Number 175 of 650 copies signed by the author. viii 257 pp. 1 vols. 4to. New half blue cloth. Fine in Blue cloth slip case. First edition Number 175 of 650 copies signed by the author. viii 257 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Eschelbach & Shober 26; Ransom p. 279 # 19 at the Florence Press. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1926WRCLIT35662London: Florence Press / Chatto & Windus 1926. Cloth and marbled boards. First edition. One of 650 numbered copies signed by the author the entire edition. Spine a bit sunned at head and toe a few foxmarks to fore-edge otherwise a near fine copy though without dust jacket. Florence Press / Chatto & Windus hardcover books
192920614London: The Fleuron Ltd. printed by the Curwen Press 1929. First edition. Number 125 of 300 copies. Drawings by Albert Rutherston stencilled in colors at the Curwen Press. 64 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original brown cloth publishers box. Some light wear to box and binding else a very good copy. First edition. Number 125 of 300 copies. Drawings by Albert Rutherston stencilled in colors at the Curwen Press. 64 pp. 1 vols. 4to. The Fleuron Ltd. [printed by the Curwen Press] unknown books
199206051scsLondon: Macmillan 1992. Four Volumes. Quarto cloth lviii 815 pp viii 747 pp vii 888 pp. Illus. maps. Former-owner embossed stamps; otherwise Fine. Macmillan, [1992]. Four Volumes. hardcover books
