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194829339New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1948. First edition. A fine copy in a very good to nearly fine dust jacket with moderate shelf wear along the upper and lower edges with two tiny closed tears. 29339. Octavo pp. 1-6 1-205 206: blank 207: colophon 208-210: blank note: last leaf is a blank publisher's blue cloth Harper's device stamped in light blue on front panel spine panel stamped in light blue and gold fore-edge untrimmed. "After a comprehensive atomic bomb catastrophe man undergoes biological changes. Love is extinct only collective seasonal sexual intercourse remains. The place of traditional religion has been taken by a hysterical worship of Belial the god of evil." - Gerber Utopian Fantasy 1973 pp. 156-57. ". scalpel-like satirical account of twentieth-century humans' failure to understand their nature. Lesser writers would not handle this scenario and theme intelligently until the 1960's." - Anatomy of Wonder 1995 3-97. "Bleak and timely." - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction p. 17. Reference: Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-557. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 235. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I pp. 78-83. Baird and Greenwood An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1274. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown
1950SvasEC4B-826dChatto & Windus 1950-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Missing. 8x5x0. A nice hardcover missing the dust jacket a tight binding and an unmarked text. 1st Phoenix editionFrom a private smoke free collection. Shipping within 24 hours tracking number and delivery Confirmation. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1997021258London England: Folio Society 1997. Reprint . Slipcased. Near Fine. Rosoman Leonard. The mighty novel of a soulless streamlined Eden--and two who escape it in this stunning new slipcased edition from the Folio Society. First issued in 1971 this is a 1997 reprint in 196 pages with pen-&-ink illustrations throughout & cover art by the brilliant late British artist of all things fantastic Leonard Rosoman. With silver paper over boards stamped with bright red lettering to spine & silver line drawing of a baby with roses to front this small quarto is in Near Fine condition marred only by a pinpoint are of rubbing to baby's featureless face on front. Else exceptionally clean & bright binding strong & straight pages stark white & unmarked corners crisp. The black slipcase in semi-glossy paper is equally flawless! Stunning! Our photos depict the exact book you will receive never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on orders received Weekdays before 2 pm Pacific time; later orders weekends & holidays ship very next business day. <br/> <br/> Folio Society unknown
193622464London: Chatto & Windus 1936. First trade edition. Hardcover. Slight darkening to cover cloth splash marks to top edge else very good in jacket with chips to top edge. 6 620 pp. octavo light brown cloth lettered in red dustjacket. <br/><br/>Loosely autobiographical this novel tells the story of a young man's search for meaning in life. Bromer A41.2. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1962A52688New York NY: Harper & Brothers. 1962. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. Both front and rear book covers have strips of glue residue where a previous owner has used tape to hold down the dust jacket. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is in mostly clean bright condition with some light rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners. "Huxley completed his first unpublished novel at the age of 17 and began writing seriously in his early twenties establishing himself as a successful writer and social satirist. His first published novels were social satires Crome Yellow 1921 Antic Hay 1923 Those Barren Leaves 1925 and Point Counter Point 1928. Brave New World 1932 was his fifth novel and first dystopian work. In the 1920s he was also a contributor to Vanity Fair and British Vogue magazines. " from Wikipedia; 335p. pages; Pictured 2/22/26 . Harper & Brothers hardcover
192478496London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover in jacket. .First edition bound in red cloth with paper label on the spine and an extra label at the rear - internally bright though endpages with some toning. Private bookplate present and lightly soiled dust jacket with modest wear. . Chatto & Windus hardcover
193119623New York: The Fountain Press 1931. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Essays on a variety of topics mostly art & music but also a wide variety of subjects; also one titled 'The Beauty Industry': "The one American industry unaffected by the general depression of trade is the beauty industry. American women continue to spend on their faces and bodies as much as the spent before the coming of the slump." p125. Same as it ever was. Signed Limited edition number 736 signed by the author at the limitations page 8vo 146pp. Quarter black cloth and marbled paper-covered boards. Paper spine label slt toned. The Fountain Press hardcover
193153491London: Chatto & Windus 1931. First Trade Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19.25cm; blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; grey topstain; dustjacket; vi2693pp. Light wear to spine ends touch of dust-soil to upper oard edges with scattered foxing to right edge of textblock; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 7s.6d. net edgeworn and sunned with a few tiny nicks and tears a spot of soil and two faint cup rings to front panel; Very Good only. Collection of 25 essays. BROMER A28.2. Chatto & Windus unknown
1968608078Berkeley California: The Hart Press 1968. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Victor Anderson. Octavo. 4 2pp. Sewn illustrated wrappers. Fine. Issued as a Christmas greeting with publisher's slip laid in. The Hart Press unknown
19231390293New York NY: George H. Doran Company 1923. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo vi 217 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good plus condition dust jacket. Parchment white spine with dark blue lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering has moderate shelving wear large open tears along the fore corners and spine tears along the head edges and stains throughout. Boards have mild shelving wear and moderate age-toning along the head and tail edges. Textblock is splitting along the front hinge has stains on the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges and moderate age-toning along the edges. Shelved Room C. 1390293. Special Collections. George H. Doran Company hardcover
1928007249Garden City N.Y. Doubleday Doran & Co. 1928 1928. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1st American edition; later printing 432 pages 22 cm ; LCCN: 28-25185 ; LC: PZ3.H981; PR6015.U9; Dewey: 823.91 ; OCLC: 920277 ; "In this satiric view of intellectual life in the 1920s diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously by characters based on celebrities of the time such as D.H. Lawrence Katherine Mansfield and Huxley himself." ; "The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy who devours every man in sight; the repulsive Spandrell deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment and all the while everyone is engaged in dazzling and witty conversation." ; lavender cloth with green and purple paste down spine title label ; no dustjacket ; bright green harlequin-design endpapers ; sunning to spine ; slight wear ; else G <br/> <br/> Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928 hardcover
3664NY APPLETON 1925. FINE. NY, APPLETON, 1925 unknown
1931200721Garden City: Doubleday Doran and Company 1931. First American edition. Spine stamping dulled a bit slight shelf wear else fine in a lightly sunned dust jacket with a bit of wear at the ends of the spine. 8vo decorative moire with black cloth spine. With the book label of Wlater Chrysler on the front pastedown. Doubleday, Doran and Company unknown
1936014900London: Chatto and Windus 1936. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 303pp. Sharp First British Edition of this anthology of essays. Bound in green cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Square tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Spine and edges toning else Fine. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket 7s. 6d. net has some small chips to the crown and tips. Tiny closed tears at the heel. Spine panel toned. Two small pieces of reinforcing tape on the verso. Still solid and complete and quite presentable. A pretty collectable copy at a great price. Chatto and Windus hardcover
1936309666LONDON: CHATTO AND WINDUS. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1936. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First trade edition. Very good copy in very good dust jacket. Fore edge foxed. Spine on jacket age toned with soil spots. Shallow chipping at crest of spine on jacket. Short edge tears at corners of jacket. . CHATTO AND WINDUS. hardcover
1936127977London: Chatto & Windus 1936 First trade edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in very good lightly soiled d.j. Spine of jacket lightly browned. Chatto & Windus, hardcover
1944138400New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1944. First edition of Huxley's complex and powerful novel preceding the first English edition. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Ownership inscription. First published in 1944 by Harper & Brothers in New York Huxley's Time Must Have a Stop follows the story of Sebastian Barnack a young poet who holidays with his hedonistic uncle in Florence. Many of the philosophical themes discussed in the novel are explored further in Huxley's 1945 his comparative study of mysticism The Perennial Philosophy. The book's title derives from Hotspur's death speech in Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1 Act V Scene 4: "But thought's the slave of life and life time's fool; and time that takes survey of all the world must have a stop." Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
a88868London 1911 first edition. Harrison and Sons. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of Lond series B vol 202 pp. 165-189. one plate. 4to. original tan printed wraps. First published article by Huxley. Near Fine. no ownership marks. no wear. . paperback
19635983Cambridge: The Psychedelic Review 1963. First edition. Very Good. 23 cm; 260 pages. Printed wraps slightly discolored with a nick on the joint. Else fine. <br /><br />The second number of the quarterly journal of psychedelic experience led by the school of Timothy Leary Richard Alpert and their peers. Includes articles on botanical sources of New World narcotics and on the treatment of alcoholism with psychedelic drugs. The Psychedelic Review paperback
1875032023-06New York: D. Appleton and Co 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. 8vo in publisher's cloth. NF. An outstanding copy in excellent condition. Minimal wear. Binding is strong. Text block is clean and tight. Name in pencil on front flyleaf. Text is pristine with no writing or markings of any kind. New York: D. Appleton and Co hardcover
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187754346London: MacMillan. Very Good. 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Original red embossed flexible cloth gilt spine. Light rubbing/soil to covers. Paper split at front hinge but holding. Occasional faint penciling. 5 color plates including frontis. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xix384 pages . MacMillan hardcover
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3752356456.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
