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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 first printing. 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 books
19749025837Avon Connecticut: Limited Editions Club. 1974. Hardcover. Fine condition. With author's foreword and a new introduction by Ashley Montague. Illustratred with gravures by Mara McAfee.Bound in publisher's original shiny blue composite with front cover and spine titled in a blod blue typeface with two orange heliocopter ornaments on the front cover. In publisher's original slipcase wrapped in orange paper with minor soiling and fading. One of 2000 numbered copies signed by the artist. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club. hardcover books
1926215309London: at the Florence Press. Chatto & Windus 1926. First edition Number 175 of 650 copies signed by the author. viii 257 pp. 1 vols. 4to. New half blue cloth. Fine in Blue cloth slip case. First edition Number 175 of 650 copies signed by the author. viii 257 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Eschelbach & Shober 26; Ransom p. 279 # 19 at the Florence Press. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1971191896Winchester Press 1971-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Clean has a good binding and crisp pages no marks or notations. Light scuffing at corners. HB HS Winchester Press hardcover books
193908013New York: Harper & Brothers 1939. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good-. Octavo. A near fine copy with neat owner inscription ffep. In a very good- dust jacket with chips short closed tears mild scuffs spine of dust jacket. 356 pp. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1939107162New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1939. Octavo pp. 1-4 1-2 3-356 title page printed in brown and black original brown pebbled cloth front and spine panels stamped in blue and gold fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed. First U.S. edition. Jeremy a young English scholar is engaged to catalogue a manuscript collection in Los Angeles belonging to the eccentric and malignant Mr. Stoyte whose live-in physician Dr. Obispo is searching for a longevity drug. "At once comic and ironic philosophic religious and erotic and in its development both tragic and horrific the narrative leads -- by way of the eighteenth-century manuscript journal of the 5th Earl of Gonister found by Jeremy among the Hauberk Papers -- to a conclusive anticipation of Stoyte and Obispo's search for the elixir of life." - Longman Companion to Twentieth Century Literature p. 7. Huxley moved to Los Angeles in the late 1930s and lived there off and on until his death in 1963. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 4-322; 1981 3-413; 1987 3-219; and 1995 2-55. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I pp. 33-7. Baird and Greenwood An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1273. Powell California Classics no. 30. A Burgess 99 novel. Spine panel just a bit dull else a very good bright copy; no dust jacket. #107162 Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
195254111New York: Avon. Very Good. 1952. Paperback. New York: Avon Publishing 1952. Avon Pocket Size Books light wear Good. . Avon paperback books
1939121198London: Chatto & Windus 1939. First edition of this classic novel. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication "For Carvel James with good wishes Aldous Huxley 1939." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Uncommon in this condition and signed. After Many a Summer tells the story of a Hollywood millionaire who fears his impending death. It was published in the United States as After Many a Summer Dies the Swan. Written soon after Huxley left England and settled in California the novel is Huxley's examination of American culture particularly what he saw as its narcissism superficiality and obsession with youth. This satire also raises philosophical and social issues some of which would later take the forefront in Huxley's final novel Island. The novel's title is taken from Tennyson's poem Tithonus about a figure in Greek mythology to whom Aurora gave eternal life but not eternal youth. The book was awarded the 1939 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
193953490London: Chatto and Windus 1939. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19.5cm; brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; brown topstain; dustjacket; vi314pp. Spine ends pushed and lightly worn mild offsetting from jacket flaps onto endpapers with some scattered foxing and soil to text edges; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 7s.6d. net edgeworn sunned at spine and panels with several shallow chips to spine ends and several short tears to extremities; Very Good. A Hollywood satire centered around a millionaire who fears his impending death. BROMER A49.1.1. Chatto and Windus unknown books
200037837Chicago: Ivan R. Dee 2000. Two volumes. 8vo pp. xx 487; xvii 587. Edited by Robert . Baker and James Sexton. Frontis portraits. Fine in djs. Ivan R. Dee unknown books
19255834New York. George H. Doran Company. 1925. Bound in 1/2 vellum and paper covered boards. 8vo. Large Paper Edition Limited to 250 numbered copies of which this is #95. Signed by Aldous Huxley. Spine label half chipped off with glue residue and various staining to vellum spine else Near Fine. A tight copy. George H. Doran Company. hardcover books
192520613New York: George H. Doran Company. Very Good. 1925. Hardcover. Slight toning loose otherwise good . George H. Doran Company hardcover books
1925WRCLIT32933London: Chatto & Windus 1925. Cloth paper label. First edition trade issue. Spine and edges lightly faded else a very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1925WRCLIT42101London: Chatto & Windus 1925. Cloth paper label. First edition trade issue. Spine and edges lightly faded else a very good copy in modestly edgeworn and dust soiled jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
193758195New York and London: Harper & Brothers 1937. First American edition 16mo pp. 2 104 2; original green paper wrappers; wrappers soiled underlining and marginal notes in pencil throughout otherwise very good and sound. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers unknown books
19241321366London: Chatto & Windus 1924. Hardcover. Octavo; G Hardcover; Yellow spine with Brown text on white spine label; Boards strong bumping and rubbing to corners fraying along spine edges slight cocking to spine some edgewear moderate shelfwear spine label peeling off white mark on spine black mark on rear cover; Textblock has separation along hinge between pages 16 and 17 towards head edge pencil mark on page 17 final printed page rear pastedown staining to front and rear endpapers small brown spot on reverse of front endpaper brown marks on copyright page and page 1 foxing on pages 2-4 and 281 age toning otherwise clean; 328 pp. 1321366. FP New Rockville Stock. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1923BB17281London: Chatto & Windus 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Original yellow cloth; spine labeled darkened but with the publisher's additional spine label perfectly preserved at the back of the book. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1923219248London: Chatto & Windus 1923. First. hardcover. very good. 8vo dark yellow cloth; paper spine label; spine tanned slight dust soil. London: Chatto & Windus 1923. First Edition<br/><br/> Chatto & Windus unknown books
1923119728London: Chatto & Windus 1923. First edition of this classic novel. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For James Murphy thirty years later Aldous Huxley 1954." Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Uncommon signed and inscribed. London life just after World War I devoid of values and moving headlong into chaos at breakneck speed - Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay like Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists third-rate poets pompous critics pseudo-scientists con-men bewildered romantics cock-eyed futurists - all inhabit this world spinning out of control as wildly comic as it is disturbingly accurate. In a style that ranges from the lyrical to the absurd and with characters whose identities shift and change as often as their names and appearances Huxley has here invented a novel that bristles with life and energy what the New York Times called "a delirium of sense enjoyment!" Chatto & Windus hardcover books
19481321179New York: Harper & Brothers 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; VG- Hardcover w/ G Dustjacket; Gold spine with Black and Blue text; Dustjacket has moderate edgewear some shelfwear closed tear along front joint closed tear along head edge of rear cover small closed tear along tail edge of rear cover otherwise clean; Boards strong slight cocking to spine some edgewear some shelfwear bumping to corners otherwise clean; Textblock has staining to front endpaper and pastedown some age toning otherwise clean; 205 pp; F-X Code on Copyright Page. 1321179. FP New Rockville Stock. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
194886459New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1948. 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. First edition. "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. 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. Faint narrow insect tracking along lower edge of front cover and upper and lower edges of rear cover else a bright near fine copy in very good gold-foil dust jacket with shelf wear along upper edges and at tail of spine panel and lower corner tips several closed tears at edges some internal tape reinforcements mostly along top edges and clipped price. #30833 Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
19495600London: Chatto & Windus 1949. First Edition. 8vo pp. 153. A nice copy in chipped dj. Eschelbach & Shober 5. A futuristic novel of life after atomic warfare. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1948WRCLIT33235New York: Harper 1948. Cloth. First U.S. edition. Near fine in a bright example of the gold foil jacket that is chipped at the head of the spine and has a crease and some short closed tears at the top of the lower panel. Harper hardcover books
194953492London: Chatto & Windus 1949. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19.5cm; blue-gray cloth titled in gilt over a blue panel at upper spine; blue topstain; dustjacket; vi1531pp. Tiny stain to upper edge of textblock else a fresh Fine copy. Dustjacket is price-clipped with some pinpoint wear to extremities; very Near Fine. "In 1947 William Tallis writes rejected screenplay of California in 2018 visited by New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition after nuclear holocaust. Situation is neo-medieval church-directed. Message is scalpel-like satirical account of twentieth-century humans' failure to understand their nature" Barron Anatomy of Wonder 3-220. BROMER A62.2; NEGLEY 603; SARGENT p.116. Chatto & Windus unknown books
193051578Gaylordsville: The Slide Mountain Press 1930. First Limited Edition. One of 91 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author this being copy no.29. Quarto 26.75cm; patterned paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip with title label mounted to spine; publisher's pictorial paper-covered slipcase; 16pp with errata slip tipped in before title page correcting the author's misspelled first name. With a single woodcut illustration by O. Macrum opposite Huxley's poem. Presentation copy warmly inscribed by the publishers on the front endpaper: "For Milly and Elizabeth Randall-Mills / with compliments and thanks! / James and Elizabeth Wells / October 27 1936." Some light rubbing and dust-soil to backstrip faint foxing to endpapers and edges of a few leaves else Near Fine lacking the original glassine with a new one supplied. Slipcase is lightly tanned and edgeworn with a few thin cracks 1.25" loss at lower edge and some faint whitish spotting; still Very Good and sound. An elaborate slip of a book produced by James and Hilda Wells's Slide Mountain Press printing a single poem by Huxley which was subsequently published in his 1931 collection The Cicadas and Other Poems. BROMER A25. The Slide Mountain Press unknown books
