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0060120355.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1994Q-0006547311Flamingo 1994-01-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Flamingo paperback
2 vols., 8vo., Third Impression, with portrait frontispieces (original tissue guards present), plates, and illustrations and facsimiles in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original burgundy cloth, gilt backs, uncut, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue at end of each volume. Published a month after the first edition. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
1918S9148London:: John Murray 1918. 1918. Two volumes. 8vo. x 2 546; vi 569 pp. Frontis. Blue cloth gilt-stamped cover ornaments gilt-stamped spine titles; recased new endpapers. Fine. First edition second printing August 1918. This two-volume is the first full-length biography of Hooker written and edited by Leonard Huxley with the assistance of Hooker's widow Lady Hyacinth Hooker. Hooker 1817-1911 British botanist was arguably the most important botanical figure of the nineteenth century. A traveler and plant-collector he was one of Charles Darwin's closest friends and eventually succeeding his father to became director of Britain's Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in 1865. Hooker was chief botanist 1839-1843 teaming with Dr. David Lyall of the Antarctic voyage on the discovery ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror the consort to Erebus; the Terror was commanded by Crozier under the command of Sir James Clark Ross visiting Madeira and the Cape of South Africa. During the voyage he also served as assistant surgeon on the Erebus. In 1848-51 he journeyed at Nepal and India collecting many specimens preserved at Kew Gardens. See: W. B. Turrill Joseph Dalton Hooker. Botanist Explorer and Administrator London 1963. John Murray, 1918. hardcover
1936007185Chatto & Windus 1936. Book. Fine. Cloth. First English Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy.True First Edition.Near fine Jacket.Faded At Spine.Terrific Copy. Chatto & Windus Hardcover
1930006408Chatto and Windus 1930. Book. Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in like jacket.Fresh Copy. Rare in this condition. "First Published 1930 2sNet. on flap. Excellent Copy. Chatto and Windus Hardcover
1936007185Chatto & Windus 1936. Book. Fine. Cloth. First English Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy.True First Edition.Near fine Jacket.Faded At Spine.Terrific Copy. Chatto & Windus Hardcover books
1930006408Chatto and Windus 1930. Book. Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in like jacket.Fresh Copy. Rare in this condition. "First Published 1930 2sNet. on flap. Excellent Copy. Chatto and Windus Hardcover books
192628937New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1926. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1926. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth printed paper title cards mounted to front cover and spine in original brown dust jacket printed in red; xii427pp. Light wear and chipping at jacket margins spine panel a shade toned and lightly dampstained corners bumped else Very Good and sound.<br /> <br /> Includes short stories by Stella Benson Aldous Huxley D.H. Lawrence and Liam O'Flaherty among many others. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown
1929WRCLIT33245New York & London: Fountain Press/Chatto & Windus 1929. Cloth and boards. Pictorial title vignette. First edition. One of 692 numbered copies signed by the author. Edges slightly dusty else fine in remnants of glassine dust jacket. Fountain Press/Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1959153762London: Chatto & Windus 1959. Octavo pp. 1-6 7-8 9-10 11-163 164 boards. First British edition. "Essay arguing that the extrapolation of 1932 Huxley was coming true faster than he had originally thought." - Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 pp. 269-270. Early owner's signature dated 1959 on front free endpaper. Endpapers a bit tanned a nearly fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with a couple of tiny edge tears and light dust soiling to rear panel. A nice copy. #153762 Chatto & Windus unknown books
1930WRCLIT82491New York & London: Fountain Press / Chatto & Windus 1930. Large octavo. Cloth. First edition. One of 842 numbered copies signed by the author. Collector's bookplate on front pastedown crown of spine a bit soft some dulling and ringmarks to upper board; a sound copy internally very good or better. Fountain Press / Chatto & Windus hardcover books
19363940New York: Harper & Brothers 1936. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Octavo. Review Copy with Harper Brothers card laid in. 473pp. Bound in original printed red white and gold wrappers gray glitter endpapers. A very good copy. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers paperback books
1936WRCLIT33239London: Chatto & Windus 1936. Cloth. First edition trade issue. Small bookseller's label light foxing to bottom edge else a brilliant fine copy in a bright unfaded dust jacket wounded by a long snagged scratch across the front panel and an inner tape repair. A very nice copy. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
3660LONDON CHATTO 1924. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. LONDON, CHATTO, 1924 unknown books
19252393Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1925. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. Author John Bowles copy with his name and date on front free endpaper. 63pp Bound in decorative paper covered boards paper spine label couple of chips to spine; light foxing on some leaves. In all a very good copy. <br/><br/> Basil Blackwell hardcover books
1918WRCLIT37762Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1918. Decorated wrappers paper label. Spine worn and a bit frayed label darkened otherwise a good copy with the bookplate of multiple Pulitzer winner Paul Horgan. First edition of Huxley's second substantial collection. While Eschelbach & Shober recorded the edition consisted of 250 copies it is now reported by Bromer & Stuble to have consisted of 750 copies a number which is far more consistent with the frequency with which this title turns up. BROMER A3. E &S 19. Basil Blackwell unknown books
187738604New York: Appleton 1877. Huxley Thomas 1825-95. American addresses with a lecture on the study of biology. 12mo. 6 164pp. Text wood-engravings some after Othniel C. Marsh 1831-99. New York: Appleton 1877. 196 x 124 mm. Original green cloth slightly worn. Fine copy. First American Edition published simultaneously with the London edition. "The first British book to make the fossil case for evolution" Desmond Huxley p. 484. Huxley toured America in 1876 capping his visit with a series of lectures on evolution delivered in New York City. These were published the following year in both England and America with illustrations taken from fossil drawings by American paleontologist O. C. Marsh whose "classifications and descriptions of extinct vertebrates were major contributions to knowledge of evolution" DSB. 38604. Appleton unknown books
188540015London: Macmillan 1885. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. Huxley Thomas Henry 1825-95. Howes George Bond 1853-1905. An atlas of practical elementary biology . . . with a preface by Professor Huxley P.R.S. 4to. vii 4 116pp. 24 lithographed plates. London: Macmillan 1885. 295 x 232 mm. Original green cloth stamped in gilt on front cover and spine a little worn and shaken inner hinges weak minor spotting on front cover. Light toning but very good. Ownership signature on front free endpaper. Macmillan unknown books
1939312393New York: Harper & Bros 1939. First American edition. iv 356 pp. 8vo. Original orange-brown cloth dust jacket. Some shelfwear to jacket very good. First American edition. iv 356 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Harper & Bros hardcover
1933H38359New York: Modern Library 1933. First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 12mo dark brown "balloon cloth" gilt near fine copy in very good plus dust jacket with lightest wear and general light darkening and soil. Stated First Modern Library edition with Kent endpapers and jacket with six masks. See Toledano 2nd ed. pp. 48-49. Modern Library hardcover
1934COLLECTI006907INEW YORK NY: HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS. VG/VG. PUB 1934. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. BOOK IS IN VERY NICE SHAPE BUT GILT DESIGN AND TITLES ON THE SPINE ANDFRONT COVER ARE DULLED. D.J. IS WORN AT THE CORNERS WITH SHALLOWCHIPPING AT THE ENDS OF THE SUNNED AND FADED SPINE PANEL A NUMBER OFSHORT EDGE TEARS A SMALL HOLE ON THE FRONT SPINE EDGE A SMALL HOLE ONTHE REAR PANEL AND PRICE-CLIPPED. A VERY NICE CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY ANDA PRESENTABLE EXAMPLE OF THE VERY FRAGILE DUST WRAPPER. Keywords: TRAVEL MEXICO INVISIBLE ABCDEF. HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS hardcover
1946018649New York: Harper & Brothers. Toning on inside front cover and ffep where a piece of paper had been. Brave New WorldClipped DJ in archival cover chips toning. . Fine. Hardcover. 1946. Harper & Brothers. hardcover
1937460233London : Chatto & Windus 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine very slightly dust-dulled and uncommon in the dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. NOT price-clipped. Physical description; 335 pages ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Religion Philosophy. Experience. politics. History. Statesmen France ; Biography. Monks France. social issues. Social change. Social theory. Political Reform. London : Chatto & Windus hardcover
1937538663London: Chatto & Windus 1937. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 355pp. Red cloth with spine gilt. Just about fine in a soiled very good dust jacket with a tiny chip and a couple of short tears and a moderately toned spine. Essays on war religion nationalism and ethics. Chatto & Windus hardcover
