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6426580Taylor & Francis Group pp. xi 186 . Hardback. New. Taylor & Francis Group hardcover
1913981Y14London: Smith Elder and Co. 1913. Cloth. Good. 9.5" by 7". Not Stated . An early edition of this profusely illustrated work on Captain Robert Falcon Scott's last expedition. The second edition published the same year as the first.Complete in two volumes. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Volume I comprises Scott's journals and Volume II comprises the reports and scientific work undertaken by Dr. E. A. Wilson and the expedition's surviving members. Arranged by Leonard Huxley with a preface by Sir Clements R. Markham. Captain Robert Falcon Scott was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two major expeditions to the Antarctic regions known as the Discovery expedition of 1901-04 and the Terra Nova expedition of 1910-13 the latter of which this work covers. Copiously illustrated throughout including photogravure frontispieces eighteen colour plates three double-page plates six further photogravure plates and eight folding maps.Collated complete. In the original cloth binding. Externally with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Backstrip to Vol I has a tear running down the tail of the spine. Marks to the cloth more so to Vol I. Slight fading to the spines. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with scattered spotting of varying degrees throughout. Offsetting to the endpapers. Good Smith, Elder and Co. hardcover
1997x-0801433738Ilr Pr 1997. Hardcover. New. 249 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches. Ilr Pr hardcover
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1937BB2431New York: The Museum of Modern Art 1937. First Printing. Card Covers. Fine-. One of 2750 copies printed by the Spiral Press with notes by Kauffer on technique and foreword by Aldous Huxley of this catalog for an exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art from February 10 to March 7 1937. Royal 8vo 254 x 191mm: 24pp including 12 highlights on 9 black-and-white plates from the exhibit of 85 posters designed by Kauffer for London Underground Great Western Railways Shell and other English clients. Stapled illustrated card covers screen-printed in French blue black and grey. About Fine with minute wear to lower front cover edge else virtually pristine. Scarce. Kauffer moved to London at the start of the First World War and is probably best remembered for the 140 posters he created for London Underground later London Transport in many styles showing influences of futurism cubism and vorticism as well as impressionism and Japanese woodcuts. Why Huxley was chosen to contribute the very brief rather incoherent forward Kauffer painted Huxley's garden in Aix-en-Provence the year before this exhibition would be interesting to know. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. The Museum of Modern Art unknown
19367292New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1936. First American Edition First Printing. First American edition first printing - with "FIRST EDITION E-L" stated on the copyright page. Measuring approximately 8.25" x 5.75" with 473 numbered pages. Possible pre-publication proof or file copy with the publisher's stamp on the rear endpaper showing the manufacturing details. <br /> <br /> This book is in very good condition. The original blue cloth boards are very well preserved. Gilt lettering and designs are bright and vibrant. Tape offsetting on the endsheets. The original dust jacket is in very good condition. Moderate surface wear to the panels and creasing at the edges. Price-clipped.<br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.<br /> <br /> Inventory # P11-97. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown
1964202G4099New York: The New York Times & Arno Press 1964. Book. Illus. by Falk Sam; Burns Pat; Einsel Walter; Terrim Lou; Golden Alice; Adelman Robert; Burckhardt Rudolph; Ducrot Jerome. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 64 pages. Features: Pop Art Sells On and On - Why - illustrated article; A Grand Boulevard for Washington - plans for improving Pennsylvania Avenue; The California Voter is Maddeningly Unpredictable; Plea for a 'New Phase in Negro Leadership' - suggestions for what should be done beyond protest; Travelling Across Siberia; Great two-page color-photo ad for Manhattan shirts features athletes Y.A. Tittle Clete Boyer Stirling Moss and Warren Spahn; Tracing the emotions and attitudes behind the new African States; Great color-photo ladies' fashion ads; Tips on Tipping and Tippees; The Big Daddies of Little League Baseball; Photos of Omaha Beach; Interior Design Photos featuring the 'Built-In" look of designs by Ward Bennett; Shirt fashion photos; Desegregation - After School; United States Lines ad features color photos of Mrs. Sally Victor Mr. and Mrs. Max E. Kruger and Howard Schenken. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. The New York Times & Arno Press Paperback
57596Copies of 455 letters in Chadwick Copying Book National Blank Book Co Holyoke MA with index at front. 12x9.5" cloth. Letters to building material suppliers ordering lumber millwork many drawings of sash doors hardware flooring order for enamel signs for his truck with drawing glass estimates submitted to architects correspondence regarding work &c. Spine piece gone cover worn soiled corners stained pages toned G. hardcover
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
194029865New York: Harper & Brothers 1940. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Top edges of pages and a portion of front flyleaf spotted. Else near fine in bright dust jacket price-clipped. Published in the UK as Death of an Aryan. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers unknown books
1878216274New York: Appleton 1878. hardcover. very good. Illustrated. 8vo 3/4 tan calf marbled boards marbled edges ornately gilt spine with red and green leather labels. New York: Appleton 1878. Very good .<br/><br/> A textbook which is a little masterpiece of its kind. Huxley never accepted without qualification the Darwinian principle. He thought "transmutation may take place without transition" and thereby anticipated the findings of modern research. He liberated the English anatomical school from the deductive method and sounded the keynote of the social medicine of the future. - Garrison-Morton 338; Casey Wood p. 396.<br/><br/> Appleton unknown books
1965627394New York: Huxley House Ltd. 1965. 114 pp. 28 x 19 cm. Semi-gloss stiff card covers printed in black and green in a plastic comb binding. Very light rubbing to covers. Bookplate of previous owner on inside of front cover. Some faint foxing on insides of covers and adjacent pages. Interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding sound with no cracking or lost teeth to binding. Founded in 1928 by Walter Huxley and Franz C. Hess Huxley House was an advertising typography firm located in New York City. Born in New York Huxley moved to San Francisco and became a member of the San Francisco Bay Cities Club of Printing House Craftsmen alongside John Henry Nash Edwin Grabhorn and Haywood Hunt. He then studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and then moved back to New York where he worked at the American Type Founders Company. In 1935 Huxley designed the Huxley Vertical typeface in 1935 and became the chairman of the New York group of the Advertising Typographers Association of America. This handbook contains Huxley House's complete machine matrix resources and as the firm acquired new faces new specimen pages would be sent to the book's owner. A plastic tool is included at the rear of the book to assist in inserting the new pages. Quite scarce WorldCat locates only one copy in holdings. . Limited Numbered. Spiral Bound. Very Good. Illus. by . Huxley House, Ltd. Hardcover
1923014905London: Chatto and Windus 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine/Fair/Good. 8vo. 328pp. Sharp True First Edition bound in yellow cloth with titles in red upon a white paper spine label. Square tight and clean throughout save some fairly minor page edge toning. Wear to spine ends and edges. Board edges toning. Mild off-setting to end-papers. Complete unclipped though unpriced dust-jacket 7s.6d. net on spine panel has chipping and heavy toning to spine. Hinges splitting and toned. Not perfect but complete and uncommon in any condition. A solid collectable copy at a great price. Chatto and Windus hardcover
1923034783London: Chatto and Windus 1923. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Goldenrod cloth paper title label mounted on upper spine panel deckled text block edges with top edge stained yellow. 1st edition no addt'l ptgs. indicated. Slight soil mark to cloth on upper rear cover mildly toned endsheets otherwise essentially as issued with title label remaining bright and unblemished. Dust jacket is age-toned along spine panel mildly rubbed along top edge with slight separation along rear joint and upper rear flap fold now in mylar. iv328 pp. Rear pastedown shows vintage bookseller's tag from the Holliday Bookshop New York and volume retains a second title label tipped in at final page of text. Chatto and Windus Hardcover
192936629New York / London: The Fountain Press / Chatto and Windus 1929. 1st edition limited. Clloth. Very Good . Limited to 692 Signed copies 300 of which were for sale in the US; this copy is #236. A Very Good copy. Tall 8vo. Blue cloth backed yellow paper boards. A few minor blemishes visible on the yellow boards. A cut-out of Huxley's name pasted above the Half Title. SIGNED by Huxley below the Half Title. A handsome copy with bright boards. The Fountain Press / Chatto and Windus unknown
197449921New York: The Limited Editions Club 1974. Hardcover. Foreword by Huxley. New introduction by Ashley Montagu. Illustrations by Mara McAfee. Small 4to. Glossy paper over boards slipcase. xxvi 237pp. 10 full-page aquatints. Fine/fine. This first thus represents the seventh title in the LEC's 41st Series with rear colophon noting limitation of 2000 numbered copies this #89 signed hugely by illustrator McAfee. This exceptional copy bears four fine autograph additions from two "BNW" film versions all tipped face-to-face on the front endpaper. On the front pastedown from the 1980 made-for-t.v. film are signatures of BUD CORT born 1948; portrays Bernard Marx who inscribes and signs a heavy stock 5½" X 3½" card in blue fineline "For Richard -- / With all / my Sincere / Best / Wishes! / Bud / Cort / '87"; and below this KRISTOFFER TABORI born 1952; portrays John the Savage who signs a heavy stock 5" X 3" card boldly in brown fineline dating it 9 November 1972 at upper right. On the facing front flyleaf from the 1998 made-for-t.v. film are signatures of PETER GALLAGHER born 1955; portrays Bernard Marx who signs a heavy stock 5" X 4" card in black fineline dating it 17 August 1982 at upper right; and below this MIGUEL FERRER 1955-2017; portrays The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning who signs a heavy stock 5" X 3" card in blue fineline dating it 17 April 1988 at upper right. Laid in are the perfect bookmarks: Original transmittal envelopes for all four actors. Quite an intriguing copy. NEWMAN 472. The Limited Editions Club hardcover
1946BOOKS341509New York NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Very Good/Very Good. 1946. . Hardcover w/DJ. 8vo. 311pp. dust jacket light shelf wear to edges and corners slight chipping small tears and light creasing to edges scratch across front panel otherwise very good; cover light shelf wear to edges and corners corners and spine tips lightly bumped otherwise very good; small spot stain to bottom edge of text block otherwise pages clean and unmarked. . Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
19741390285Avon CT: Limited Editions Club// The Cardavon Press 1974. First Edition First Printing Limited Edition #1050/2000. Hardcover. Octavo xxvi 237 1 pages. In Very Good condition. Contained in a Very Good condition red-orange slipcase with dark blue lettering along the spine and mild wear along the head edge. Navy blue spine with light blue lettering. Boards have mild shelving wear. Textblock has mild wear along the rear end-page a blue ink stain on the front hinge and mild wear along the edges. Signed by Mara McAfee on the publisher's limitation page limited edition #1050/2000. Shelved Room C. 1390285. Special Collections. Limited Editions Club// The Cardavon Press hardcover
193016093LONDON: CHATTO & WINDUS. 1930. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1930. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First trade edition. Fine in very good dust jacket. Spine on jacket age toned but still perfectly readable. Shallow chipping at crest of spine on jacket. A few tiny chips at folds of jacket. Short edge tears. From the library of noted Huxley scholar Margaret Calhoun Hostetter with her book-plate on front paste-down & signature on jacket flap. Stories. . LONDON: CHATTO & WINDUS. 1930 hardcover
1937526<p><strong>First Edition Stated. Octavo Publisher s cloth 386pp. Small previous owner's name on first front endpaper else a clean tight hardcover bound in full cloth with unmarked interior and text. The dust jacket remains unclipped $3.50 and presents well under fresh mylar with a few wrinkles along the panel edges and slight unavoidable spine fade of the red ink. A very scarce copy of the first American edition in superb condition. Ends and Means contains a collection of essays focused on the ideal goals of human effort with illuminating tracts on war religion nationalism and ethics. It was cited as a major influence on Thomas Merton in his autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain and the speeches of Martin Luther King Jr.</strong></p> Harper & Brothers hardcover
