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192125481Nicholas Brown 1921. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Dust Jacket chipped torn. Uncommon . Dust jacket in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 25481. . Nicholas Brown hardcover
1927173439London: Chatto & Windus 1927. Hardcover. VG- light fading to boards along edges and spine. spine lettering is also faded. Marbled boards with maroon cloth spine and gilt stamped spine lettering. xix 299 pp. Signed and numbered by Aldous Huxley. Number 104 of 260 copies. Contents: Introduction -- The idea of equality -- Varieties of intelligence -- Education -- Political democracy -- The essence of religion -- A note on dogma -- The substitutes for religion -- Personality and the discontinuity of the mind -- A note on ideals -- A note on eugenics -- Comfort. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
191831328Oxford: Blackwell 1918. First edition. Original wrappers edges rubbed internally fine and unopened. With the bookplate of Montgomery Evans II. From Ira Gershwin's library with posthumous bookplate. <br/><br/> Blackwell unknown books
191831327Oxford: Blackwell 1918. First edition. Original wrappers edges rubbed internally fine and unopened. From Ira Gershwin's library with posthumous bookplate. <br/><br/> Blackwell unknown books
192918630London: The Fleuron Ltd 1929. First Limited Edition. Octavo. Original brown buckram stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 64pp. Number 30 of 300 hand-numbered copies printed at the Curwen Press. Stencil-colored text illustrations by Albert Rutherston. Darkened at spine and board edges else a tight Near Fine copy in a later custom linen slipcase. The Fleuron Ltd unknown books
1927WRCLIT38438London: Dulau & Co. Ltd. 1927. Gilt polished buckram t.e.g. Bookplate of John Howell Books else near fine and bright. First edition deluxe issue. One of fifty numbered copies specially printed on Japan vellum specially bound and signed by Huxley and Powys from a total edition of 550. Dulau & Co. Ltd. hardcover books
1949108019Folio. London: Trianon Press 1949. Folio 36 pp. with a frontispiece and 18 plates. Original stiff wrappers with printed label. Plates are loosely inserted into a folded pocket at rear. Some fading wear and discoloration to cover and spine inside front cover has been repaired with linen tape. Plates and pages in fine condition. Inscribed in ink at front by Arnold Fawcus: “ To Dad: With Best Wishes Love Arnold. Nov. 7 1949â€. § One of 1000 unnumbered unsigned trade editions. Of the first printing 212 were signed by the author; 100 copies were reserved for the Trianon Press Cobham Surrey and the Grey Falcon Press Philadelphia; 100 for Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Los Angeles; 12 copies numbered A to L "hors commerce" for the author the publishers and their associates. With a 16-page essay by Huxley and a critical study by Jean Adhemar of the famous fantasy prison etchings by Piranesi which inspired Huxley and Adhemar curator of prints at the BN to write a short history of prisons and criminality and an analysis of the plates. Eshelbach & Shober 50. Trianon Press unknown books
1992040871London: Macmillan Press Limited; New YOrk Stockton Press 1992. 4 vols. lviii 815; vii 747; vii 790; vii 888p. b/w illus. original brown cloth quarto format. Macmillan Press Limited; New YOrk, Stockton Press unknown books
1949146156London: Chatto & Windus 1949. First English edition of this cautionary tale and satire. Small octavo original cloth top edge blue. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer philosopher and notable pacifist widely known for his recording of psychedelic experience 'The Doors of Perception' and his dystopian narrative 'Brave New World.' He published 'Ape and Excess' in 1948 a satire of the rise of large-scale warfare and warmongering in the 20th century. An excellent commentary of progress and nationalism the novel presents a pessimistic view of the politics of mutually assured destruction through the surreal imagery of humans apes who as a whole are certain to kill themselves. Chatto & Windus hardcover
2013108701London:: Folio Society. As New. 2013. Hardcover. Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin. As new in like slipcase. Still in original shrinkwrap. . Folio Society, hardcover
1930498877London: Chatto & Windus 1930. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Light foxing on preliminary pages else a fine copy in near fine dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover
193161293London: Chatto & Windus 1931. First Trade Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19.25cm; blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; blue-grey topstain; dustjacket; vi2693pp. Crown gently nudged upper corners bumped though still sharp with a pictorial bookplate to front pastedown; contents fresh; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped pricd 7s.6d. net spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn with some corresponding wrinkling to upper corners and a tiny puncture to rear joint; Very Good. Collection of 25 essays. BROMER A28.2. Chatto & Windus unknown
192875689Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Early reprint. Small neat owner name on the front fly bottom of the boards a little worn near fine in very good plus dustwrapper with a small smudge on the spine and a couple of unnecessary internally repaired small chips. A nice copy of this important novel considered by many to be Huxley's most ambitious and complex. Scarce in dustwrapper. Doubleday, Doran hardcover
1942520<p><strong>Publisher s cloth Octavo 273 pages. First U.S. edition first printing preceding the London edition by a year. A clean and bright fine copy with a small vintage bookstore sticker to the rear pastedown in a near fine dust-wrapper with a few small edge tears and some very minor wear. These American Harper dust-wrappers from this period are notoriously prone to wear and rarely surface in presentable condition.</strong></p> Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
195210677London: Chatto & Windus 1952. First Edition. 8vo with original dust jacket 376 pp. Very good with foxing and toning to pages discoloration to covers offsetting to endpapers foxing to rear of jacket chipping to jacket corners and spine ends horizontal tear through jacket at upper spine. Chatto & Windus unknown
1992040871London: Macmillan Press Limited; New YOrk Stockton Press 1992. 4 vols. lviii 815; vii 747; vii 790; vii 888p. b/w illus. original brown cloth quarto format. Macmillan Press Limited; New YOrk, Stockton Press unknown
20108Methuen & Co. Ltd. Good with no dust jacket. 1937. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1131330641 . Blue cloth cover is lightly scuffed caps are rubbed corners are bumped and rubbed but cover is in good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. DJ flaps adhered to paste downs and residue from removed item on front paste down. Pages are in good condition. ; 278 pages . Methuen & Co. , Ltd hardcover
19411278<p>London: Chatto & Windus 1941. First edition. <br /><br /><strong>SIR JULIAN HUXLEY'S THOUGHTS ON THE RESPONSE OF DEMOCRACIES TO THE THREATS OF WAR IN THIS CASE BRITAIN AND WWII--SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.</strong> <br /><br />Slim hardcover 7 1/2 inches tall blue cloth binding inscribed front free endpaper "Mary Welsh/ from Julian Huxley/ Aug 1941" 126 pp. Light browning to cover edges very good in custom archival mylar cover. <strong>CONTENTS</strong>: I. THE UNIFYING EFFECT OF WAR; II. THE .BRITISH BRAND OF DEMOCRACY; III. THE BRITISH SOCIAL SERVICES; IV. SOCIAL SERVICE AND DEMOCRACY; V. SOCIAL STANDARDS; VI. HEALTH IN A DEMOCRATIC BRITAIN; VII. THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF EDUCATION; VIII. PLANNING AND DEMOCRACY; THE DEVELOPMENT OF BACKWARD AREAS; X. DEMOCRACY BETWEEN NATIONS; XI DISINTEGRATION AND REINTEGRATION; XII. THE NEW DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY. FROM THE FOREWORD: "Dr. Huxley marshals before us the very considerable contributions to the progress of civilization which democracy has recently made and is now making in this country. The array is both formidable and inspiring The instances given spread over the whole field of human endeavour and are of a kind and extent to go far towards correcting our national tendency to self-depreciation." <br /><br /><strong>SIR JULIAN HUXLEY</strong> 1887 – 1975 was a British evolutionary biologist eugenicist and internationalist. He was the first Director of UNESCO a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund and the first President of the British Humanist Association. In 1941 the year Democracy Marches was published Huxley was invited to the United States on a lecturing tour and generated some controversy by saying that he thought the United States should join World War II: a few weeks later came the attack on Pearl Harbor.</p> Chatto & Windus hardcover
1918006637London: John Murray 1918. Small bookplate on each front pastedown. Second Printing. Original Cloth. Very Good. John Murray Hardcover
1880141La revista de cubaperiodico quincenal de cienciasderecholiteratura y bellas artes.fue una revista publicada en el siglo XIXy tuvo como director a jose antonio cortina.en ella colaboraron los mas destacados escritorespoetas y periodistas cubanos del siglo XIXcomo enrique jose varonaantonio bachiller y moralesrosa krugeremilio blanchetantonio sellennicolas herediavidal morales y moralesantonio lopez prietoanselmo suarez y romeroy otros destacados escritoresla revista esta encuadernada.y en buen estadoes la primera edicionoriginaldel ano 1880. imprenta militar de la viuda de soler hardcover
1914335195London: Smith Elder & Co 1914. hardcover. very good. PONTING Herbert G. 2 volumes. Photogravure frontispieces nearly 300 varied and detailed illustrations and maps 18 of the former being color plates. Tall thick 8vo navy cloth with gilt lettering top edges gilt uncut edges. Bookworm damage to paste-downs and first few and last few pages of both volumes. Rubbing to edges of covers bumping to forecorners. Tiny spots of soiling to covers and spines. Ownership signatures to paste-downs of both volumes. London: Smith Elder & Co. 1914. Overall a solid copy about very good.<br/> <br/> Smith, Elder & Co unknown
194624-05-28-gw-32944-lczChatto & Windus 1946-01-01. 1st Edition in this . hardcover. Collectible - Good. 0x0x0. As pictured. Some wear. No jacket. name inside cover. discoloration from age. Slightly loose binding. Very readable copy. Chatto & Windus hardcover
2003G9189538587I3N00Lind & Co Förlag 2003. Unknown. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Lind & Co Förlag unknown
1942827j1055London: Hulton Press Ltd. Good. 1942. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Features: Julian Huxley Reports on What Churchill's Visit Has Meant to the United States; The R.A.F. Choose Some Girls to be Police Women; On the Third Front Against the Nazis - 80000 Patriots Still Fighting in Jugoslavia; Cochran Dresses One More Show - Fancy Costumes For Ladies; A Girl Goes Into War Industry Women at War #5 - Ivy Burfitt and Rita Stewart work in an aircraft factory; Nathaniel Gubbins - The War's Leading Humorist; A Party for London's Salvage men; Photos of bomb-proof home designed by Wallace Neff; Spicy photo of Lupez Velez; Nice Bird's Custard ad on back cover; and more. 28 pages. Complete and unmarked with average wear. A sound example of this informative WWII-era issue.; Folio . Hulton Press, Ltd. unknown
1999SONG0632040475Wiley-Interscience 1999-03-22. 1. hardcover. Used: Good. 7.80x1.10x10.10. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Wiley-Interscience hardcover
