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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
14702GENEVE, Thames & Hudson, Editio-Service, 1974 - 1 Edition Française - Complet en 10 Volumes - Grand In-4 - Reliure Editeur -1 Plat orné - très nombreuses illustrations NB ou couleurs, figures, cartes. Bibliographie, liste et sources des illustrations, index. - 427, 460, 388, 425, 422, 436, 424, 430, 423 & 443 pages, y compris index - Bel Exemplaire
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
2001BN73684Kynos 2001. 2001. Airedale Terrier heute Das besondere Hundebuch Janet Huxley. Aus dem Engl. übertr. von Gisela Rau <br/><br/> Kynos unknown
1998BN3325481998. 1998. Softcover. The Royal College of Art Collection: a Selection of Paintings and Drawings <br/><br/>The Royal College of Art Collection: a Selection of Paintings and Drawings Huxley Paul Christopher Frayling paperback
731438like new. unknown
1987x-0714633100Frank Cass & Co 1987. Hardcover. New. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. Frank Cass & Co hardcover
1936000835Chatto and Windus 1936. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. First Edition first impression published by Chatto & Windus in 1936. Unclipped dustjacket with two 1 inch closed tears to the bottom edge plus a chip to the top edge at the spine with some minor marks and edge wear. The jacket is now in an acid free protective wrapper. Cream cloth covers with some minor marks red lettering to the front and spine deep red top edge bottom edge untrimmed spotting to the edge of the page block. Previous owners name in pencil to the front free endpaper which could easily be removed clean bright pages good condition. <br/> <br/> Chatto and Windus hardcover
19741001H16London: John Murray; Faber and Faber; Weidenfeld and Nicolson; Faber and Faber 1974-2009 . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9" by 5.5". None Stated. A smart four-volume collection of modern travel writing and memoir including a signed first edition by Elspeth Huxley. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Complete with the original dust wrappers all but one of which The Minaret of Djam remain unclipped.A collection of twentieth-century travel and memoir writing across Afghanistan Spain Africa and more by four major figures in modern travel literature.Compromising: 1974 The Minaret of Djam: An Excursion in Afghanistan by Freya Stark. Reprint of the work first published in 1970. Illustrated with twenty-four double-sided monochrome photographic plates a map numerous in-text illustrations and an illustrated frontispiece. Collated complete. The dust wrapper of this copy is clipped. 1979 Spain by Jan Morris. Revised edition of the work first published in 1964 as The Presence of Spain. Illustrated with a map preceding the text and numerous in-text illustrations. 1980 Nellie: Letters from Africa by Elspeth Huxley with a memoir by the author. First edition. Signed and dated by Huxley to the title page 9th March 1980. Illustrated with three double-sided monochrome photographic plates and a map preceding the text. Collated complete. 2009 Contact!: A Book of Glimpses by Jan Morris. First edition first impression complete with full number line. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally very smart. The slightest trace of shelf wear and fading to extremities. Slight offsetting to endpapers of "Spain" and "Minaret." Author's inscription to title page of "Nellie." Dust wrappers very smart. Slight edge wear to extremities resulting in one or two small closed tears and creases. Dust wrapper of ""Minaret" clipped. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two very minor spots and handling marks to fore edges. Near Fine John Murray; Faber and Faber; Weidenfeld and Nicolson; Faber and Faber hardcover
1931016599London: Chatto & Windus 1931. Limited to 160 numbered signed copies. Book measures 23x15.5.cm.8 631pp. Bound in original publishers cloth backed decorative boards gilt lettering. Binding rubbed worn on edges head and tail of spine. Internally previous owners bookplate 1 page has a short tear to margin. Pages clean. A good clean copy in a worn binding. . Signed by Author. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. 8vo. Chatto & Windus Hardcover
192323651London: Chatto and Windus 1923. A first edition first printing published by Chatto and Windus in 1923. A very good copy without inscriptions with staining and spotting to the endpapers in like wrapper which has a small chip to the foot and a light stains and chipping to the spine. Label still in the rear Chatto and Windus unknown
19771280new york: stonehill publishing company 1977. first edition 1977.<br /> <br /> edited by michael horowitz and cynthia palmer; introductions by dr. albert hofmann and dr. alexander shulgin.<br /> <br /> new york: stonehill publishing company. isbn: 0883730421. 6.25 x 9.5. 314 pages. hardcover. bound in cloth-covered boards. book condition: moderate foxing to bock. else fine. jacket condition: staining to bottom right of front panel. light shelf-wear. unclipped $12.95. very good. stonehill publishing company unknown
191804989THE DEFEAT OF YOUTH AND OTHER POEMS Blackwell 1918 first edition top half of spine flaked away not missing else about vg in wraps. A most fragile production. Blackwell paperback
72544London Chatto and Windus 1935-1941. Nine volums in nine. Large 8vo 24.2 x 18.3 cm. Over 4000 pp.; thousands of illustrations photographs including many in colour. Bound in uniform green buckram with gilt title on the spines. = Rare start and a very nicely bound set of this British equivalent of the famous National Geographic Magazine. Profusely illustrated perhaps even more so than its American counterpart. A clean unmarked set. Sets like these are quite uncommon. In fact there is currently no other on the internet. hardcover
188110161AB1881. Leipzig Brockhaus 1881. 19 : 125 cm. X 313 Seiten mit 82 teils ganzseitigen Holzstichabbidlungen. Halbleinenband der Zeit. Umfangreiche Monographie. - Internationale Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek Band XLVIII. - Nicht bei Westwood/Satchell auch nicht die englische Ausgabe von 1879. unknown
188295870New York, J. Fitzgerald, 1882, in-8, Pagination multiple, Demi-chagrin vert à coins de l'époque, dos à faux nerfs orné de filets, roulettes et petits fleurons dorés, Recueil de numéros de la Humboldt Library of Popular Science Literature [n° 29, 32, 36, 38 et 39], comportant les éditions originales de : - N° 36 (sept. 1882) : Huxley "Lectures on evolution : with an appendix on the study of biology". Conférences expliquant la théorie de l'évolution aux classes populaires : The three hypotheses respecting the history of nature; The hypothesis of evolution. The neutral and the favorable evidence; The demonstrative evidence of evolution; On the study of biology. Huxley y traite des implications religieuses de la théorie de Darwin et définit sa position de doute raisonné. Il fut l'inventeur, en 1869, du terme "agnostique". - N° 38 et 39 (nov.-déc): Geikie, "Geological sketches at home and abroad. In two parts". Articles courts comportant notamment les remarques de l'auteur, le géologue écossais Archibald Geikie (1835-1924), sur les volcans britanniques. Volume contenant, en outre : "Six lectures on light" de Tyndall, reliées en tête du recueil (n° 37, oct. 1882); "Facts and fictions of zoology" par Andrew Wilson (n° 29, Fev. 1882); "Hereditary traits, and other essays" par Proctor (n° 32, mai 1882). Petits frottements au dos. Pages jaunies. Couverture rigide
1984123953W. Morrow. As New in As New dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. 0688026397 . Dustjacket has a small amount of edgewear at the top spine and is price-clipped. Otherwise I would grade it as NEW ; 9.6 X 7.0 X 1.7 inches; 506 pages . W. Morrow hardcover