Huxley AldousABAA
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1922137590London: Chatto & Windus 1922. Octavo pp. 1-8 1 2-229 230: printer's imprint 231-232: blank note: last leaf is a blank original light blue cloth printed paper label affixed to spine panel top edge stained blue other edges untrimmed. First edition. The author's second story collection. Five stories including the classic "The Gioconda Smile." Private owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down slight spine lean several spots to rear cover some tanning to free endpapers fore and bottom edges of text block foxed a very good copy. #137590 Chatto & Windus unknown books
1922126066London: Chatto & Windus 1922. Octavo pp. 1-8 1 2-229 230: printer's imprint 231-232: blank note: last leaf is a blank original light blue cloth printed paper label affixed to spine panel top edge stained blue other edges untrimmed. First edition. The author's second story collection. Five stories including the classic "The Gioconda Smile." Queen The Detective Short Story p. 57. Cover bumped at lower corners spine panel faded light foxing to front and rear free endpapers and preliminary leaves mild age toning to page edges a very good copy. #126066 Chatto & Windus unknown books
194824349NY: Harper 1948. First Edition thus. 8vo pp. 207. Vg in little chipped and soiled dj. A play. Harper unknown books
1931140939330New York: The Fountain Press 1931. Signed Limited Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing; One of a limited 842 copies signed by the Aldous Huxley on the limitation page. Publisher's marbled paper over black cloth spine with title label. Very Good with rubbing to corners and edges chip to title label. Pages toned light small staining to front free endpaper. An increasingly uncommon collection of essays signed by the author best known for his novel Brave New World. The Fountain Press unknown books
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 books
19319026782New York & London: Fountain Press & Chatto & Windus 1931. 1st . Hardcover. Very good. One of 840 numbered copies signed by Aldous Huxley. Bound in marbled paper covered boards with black cloth spine printed paper label on spine. Glassine dust cover is torn. Corners and edges show minor wear. Lacks slipcase. <br/><br/> Fountain Press & Chatto & Windus hardcover books
19231321450London: Chatto & WIndus 1923. First Edition Second State. Hardcover. Octavo 229 pages; VG/VG-; spine is beige with black lettering; dust jacket is in a mylar covering has wear along the top and bottom edges with chipping at the top and bottom edge and several small closed tears spine has discoloration; binding has moderate shelf wear at the top and bottom of the spine; pages have age toning and blotching at the hinges have faded green coloring at the top edge of the text block; shelved lit crit. 1321450. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Chatto & WIndus hardcover books
1923WRCLIT32935London: Chatto & Windus 1923. Polished buckram paper spine label. First edition trade issue. Interesting bookplate offsetting to endsheets starting to crack at gutter between first and second gatherings but sound spine and label darkened cloth faded but a good reading copy. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1923D4879London: Chatto and Windus 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Cloth paper label on spine; dust jacket. Boards and spine sunned and faintly spotted; light rubbing at spine tips corners and along edges of boards; prelims and terminals browned otherwise internally clean. Dust jacket foxed; scuffed and chipped along the edges. A good reading copy with additional spine label tipped-in at the rear. <br/><br/> Chatto and Windus hardcover books
192337738New York: George H Doran Co. Very Good. 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. No dust jacket. ; . . George H Doran Co. hardcover books
192340775London: Chatto & Windus 1923. First Edition. 8vo pp. 229. Cover little worn extra spine label tipped on rear blank o/w VG. Muir & van Thal p.20. Chatto & Windus unknown books
192858996London: Chatto & Windus 1928. First trade edition. 601 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Orange cloth. Fine in slightly chipped at corner cream unclipped dust jacket. First trade edition. 601 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1929WN54421Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Company 1929. Original dark blue cloth with spine titling on paper label. Green patterned endpapers. Top edge stained light green. Dealer ticket at bottom of rear pastedown. Text block clean and good. Patterned dust jacket is chipped at spine ends corners and a bit on edges. Upper panel of jacket has a couple of small holes. Jacket has some browning areas as well as rubbing. Notwithstanding this is a fairly presentable copy of an early American edition of Huxley's best known title. Later Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Doubleday, Doran & Company Hardcover books
192829494NY: Literary Guild 1928. Fromn the first edition plates. 8vo pp. 432.Cover faded and little worn o/w VG. A novel. Literary Guild unknown books
192820611New York: The Literary Guild of America. Very Good. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Spines sunned hinges tender loose good reading condition . The Literary Guild of America hardcover books
19289584New York: Literary Guild of America. Very Good. 1928. Hardcover. Very Good; stated 1st edition; but actually a "Literary Guild Book Club " edition printed from the original plates; "Wings" pamphlet included; Stated 1st Ed . Literary Guild of America hardcover books
192857387New York: The Literary Guild of America. Very Good. 1928. Hardcover. Blue boards with gilt stamping are scuffed with some discoloration spine sunned Good -- book club edition. . The Literary Guild of America hardcover books
1928119439New York: The Modern Library 1928. Modern Library edition of Huxley's classic satiric novel. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half-title page "For Deci Mellin With good wishes Aldous Huxley 1953." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Point Counter Point's title is a reference to the flow of arguments in a debate and a series of these exchanges tell the story. Instead of a single central plot there are a number of interlinked story lines and recurring themes as in musical "counterpoint". As a roman a clef many of the characters are based on real people most of whom Huxley knew personally such as D. H. Lawrence Katherine Mansfield Sir Oswald Mosley Nancy Cunard and John Middleton Murry and Huxley is depicted as the novel's novelist Philip Quarles. It was named by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. The Modern Library hardcover books
1928114544London: Chatto & Windus 1928. First edition of Huxley's classic satiric novel. Octavo original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Uncommon in the original dust jacket. Point Counter Point's title is a reference to the flow of arguments in a debate and a series of these exchanges tell the story. Instead of a single central plot there are a number of interlinked story lines and recurring themes as in musical "counterpoint". As a roman a clef many of the characters are based on real people most of whom Huxley knew personally such as D. H. Lawrence Katherine Mansfield Sir Oswald Mosley Nancy Cunard and John Middleton Murry and Huxley is depicted as the novel's novelist Philip Quarles. It was named by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
194958529London: Trianon Press 1949. First edition limited to 1000 copies as distributed by Faber & Faber; there were also 100 reserved for the Trianon Press 100 reserved for Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Los Angeles and 12 hors commerce each numbered and signed; folio pp. 3-34 4; frontispiece and 18 plates plate 7 repeated to show first and second states; near fine in original brown cloth gilt lettering on spine. Huxley departs from Bentham's vision of the efficient prison and discusses the phenomenon of the panopticon. Ahead of his time this same architectural scheme shared by hospitals prisons and schools would be heavily criticized by Michel Foucalt in his controversial Discipline and Punish. Piranesi's etchings exhibit an almost attractively gothic approach to prison architecture. <br/><br/> Trianon Press hardcover books
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
1932WRCLIT33234London: Chatto & Windus 1932. Thick octavo. Cloth. First edition. Foxing to rear endsheet corners and spine ends rubbed but a very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1947WRCLIT33344London: Chatto & Windus 1947. Cloth. First U.K. edition. Near fine in slightly tanned and frayed price-clipped dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1946WRCLIT47209New York: Harper & Brothers 1946. Cloth. First edition preceding the UK edition. A few spots of dulling at corners but near very good in price-clipped and dust- smudged dust jacket with a few small chips and two internal mends. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
194611867NY: Harper 1946. First US edn. 8vo pp. 86. A very good copy in little chipped dj. lacks a 1"piece on front cover Eschelbach & Shober 54. Harper unknown books
