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19844001089921984 1984. Elspeth Huxley: Safari sans retour/ Le masque 1984
1962RO60061637PENGUIN BOOKS. 1962. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos plié, Intérieur frais. 334 pages. Premier plat illustré en couleurs.. . . . Classification Dewey : 0-GENERALITES
1952500378017Le Livre de Poche 1952 1952. Le meilleur des mondes d'Aldous Huxley est un roman d'anticipation publié en 1932 qui décrit une civilisation future où un État Mondial hiérarchisé contrôle les individus dès avant leur naissance déterminant leurs aptitudes et leur caste. La drogue légale soma assure soumission et plaisir factice tandis que quelques humains ayant échappé au programme remettent en question l'ordre social. Cette œuvre dystopique majeure interroge sur les dérives possibles du progrès scientifique et du contrôle étatique
1980146448München: Fink 1980. 214 Seiten. 8° (17,5-22,5 cm). Orig.-Broschur. [Softcover / Paperback].
1978021616London: Elm Tree Books. 1st printing 1978. 244pp. VG/VG copy dust jacket lightly edge worn with small closed tear to head of spine small scuff to rear cover now preserved in archival jacket protector . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1978. Elm Tree Books hardcover
1973B4901Garden City : Doubleday and Company Inc. c.1973. . Very good condition. . Edition: First Edition. Binding: Full contemporary publisher’s cloth with gilt decorative explorer device on upper board. Flat spine with gilt title. Bottom edge speckled. Size: 4to 258x190mm. Illustration: Illustrated with a multitude of in text and full page color photographic images. Doubleday and Company, Inc. hardcover
97130aafLondon, Aldus / Jupiter Books 1973, in-8vo, 488 p. richly ill., small legat stamp, Original-clothbound with jacket
Mm 110x180 Brossura editoriale di pagine 280. Opera in ottime condizioni.
196134600New York: Mcgraw-Hill. As New. 1961. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - xvi 340p. - -- Text is extremely clean and clear bright and tight. Wraps very slightly bumped and handled. Possibly with owner label fep - This compilation was from the symposium Man and Civilization: Control of the Mind - held at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center January 28 29 and 30 of 1961. Contributors and organizers include: Aldous Huxley Robert M. Featherstone Seymour M. Lipset and Alexander Simon Seymour Lipset Wilder Penfield Harold Lasswell Arthur Koestler Glenn Seaborg Leo Rosten Holgar Hyden. -- with a bonus offer--; . Mcgraw-Hill paperback
1939473708London : Thornton Butterworth Ltd 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copies all in the original title-blocked blue-grey cloth boards; some copies heavily sun-toned but otherwise showing only faint dust or minor scuffs. Text blocks remain tight bright and clean; a well-preserved set overall. Physical description; 8 volumes ; 17 cm. Notes; Editions and dates vary all 1937-1944. Contents; Conservatism / Lord Hugh Cecil. Landmarks in French literature / Lytton Strachey. Dr. Johnson and his circle / John Bailey. History of philosophy / Clement C. J. Webb. The study of heredity / Julian S. Huxley. Sociology / Victor Branford and Alexander Farquharson. Voltaire / H. N. Brailsford. The English revolution 1688-89 / G. M. Trevelyan. Subjects; Home University Library of Modern Knowledge. Non-fiction. Reference. London : Thornton Butterworth Ltd hardcover
19694446272<p>22cm by 19cm 272pp illustrated lightly soiled price-clipped dustjacket name written on half-title page otherwise unmarked.</p> Conde Nast hardcover
1950FB9515 /L19<p>In the original dust cover. Beige cloth binding with black title on the spine. We provide an in-depth photographic presentation of this item to stimulate your feeling and touch. More traditional book descriptions are immediately available</p><p>Whilst regarded as liberal in its day this book is often regarded today as a product of British Imperial thinking. Hardback with the rather rubbed pictorial dust-jacket. pp 285. Four colour photographs 14 in b/w frontispiece and a map. Original maroon cloth boards. Great copy in the rather worn jacket. Please read book details on flyleaf. Francis Huxley was a British botanist and anthropologist son of Julian Huxley and nephew of Aldous. Affable Savages is his first book. Book. Francis John Heathorn Huxley 28 August 1923 – 29 October 2016 was a British zoologist anthropologist and author. With a short professional career at St Catherine's College Oxford he is best known for his several anthropological expeditions to The Gambia the Amazon and Haiti among other places from which he wrote several notable books.</p><p>NOTE: This is an original book from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don computer scientist food and wine connoisseur Jack Arnold LANG. Note: Jack founded the Michelin Guide 'Midsummer House'- Cambridge's paramount restaurant. This dining experience is hidden amongst the grassy pastures and grazing cattle of Midsummer Common and perched on the banks of the River Cam. </p><p>In 2008 Jack was one of the co-founders of the Raspberry Pi Foundation alongside other members of the Department and acted as the Foundation's Chair. The project's original goals were modest: to build and distribute low-cost computers for prospective applicants to our Computer Science degree. Initially the project was a "success disaster" as Jack would say as demand far outstripped the low-scale manufacturing plans. Ultimately the Raspberry Pi became the UK's most successful computer with more than 60 million sold to date. Jack was drawn to the educational possibilities of the Raspberry Pi its potential uses in emerging economies and the way it could support self-directed learning.</p> The Scientific Book Club. hardcover
196078934Paris: Plon 1960. Fine. Plon Paris 1960 14.50 x 20.50 cm broché First edition of the French translation established by Monique Lévi-Strauss of which there were no deluxe copies a Service de Presse advance copy. Work illustrated with 39 illustrations in and out of text. Handsome copy complete with its photographic dust jacket which shows slight rubbing and marginal tears. Plon unknown
0713701617.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
19901-0500810346Thames & Hudson 1990. Paperback. New. 96 pages. 11.00x8.25x0.25 inches. Thames & Hudson paperback
lc_40457Presses pocket (1 janvier 1985)
196078934Plon | Paris 1960 | 14.50 x 20.50 cm | broché
198554794Paris, Presses Pocket, Terre Humaine, 1985, poche, broché, 346p. Bon état.
p16050zPresses pocket PHOTOS SUR DEMANDE
1943020819New York: Crown Publishers. 1st ed. Near fine book in VG lightly edgeworn jacket with some slight sunning to spine now preserved in mylar jacket protector . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1943. Crown Publishers hardcover
57596Copies of 455 letters in Chadwick Copying Book National Blank Book Co Holyoke MA with index at front. 12x9.5" cloth. Letters to building material suppliers ordering lumber millwork many drawings of sash doors hardware flooring order for enamel signs for his truck with drawing glass estimates submitted to architects correspondence regarding work &c. Spine piece gone cover worn soiled corners stained pages toned G. hardcover
19741001H16London: John Murray; Faber and Faber; Weidenfeld and Nicolson; Faber and Faber 1974-2009 . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9" by 5.5". None Stated. A smart four-volume collection of modern travel writing and memoir including a signed first edition by Elspeth Huxley. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Complete with the original dust wrappers all but one of which The Minaret of Djam remain unclipped.A collection of twentieth-century travel and memoir writing across Afghanistan Spain Africa and more by four major figures in modern travel literature.Compromising: 1974 The Minaret of Djam: An Excursion in Afghanistan by Freya Stark. Reprint of the work first published in 1970. Illustrated with twenty-four double-sided monochrome photographic plates a map numerous in-text illustrations and an illustrated frontispiece. Collated complete. The dust wrapper of this copy is clipped. 1979 Spain by Jan Morris. Revised edition of the work first published in 1964 as The Presence of Spain. Illustrated with a map preceding the text and numerous in-text illustrations. 1980 Nellie: Letters from Africa by Elspeth Huxley with a memoir by the author. First edition. Signed and dated by Huxley to the title page 9th March 1980. Illustrated with three double-sided monochrome photographic plates and a map preceding the text. Collated complete. 2009 Contact!: A Book of Glimpses by Jan Morris. First edition first impression complete with full number line. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally very smart. The slightest trace of shelf wear and fading to extremities. Slight offsetting to endpapers of "Spain" and "Minaret." Author's inscription to title page of "Nellie." Dust wrappers very smart. Slight edge wear to extremities resulting in one or two small closed tears and creases. Dust wrapper of ""Minaret" clipped. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two very minor spots and handling marks to fore edges. Near Fine John Murray; Faber and Faber; Weidenfeld and Nicolson; Faber and Faber hardcover
2014210709003Harry N. Abrams 2014. Hardcover. New. 12x9x1. BRAND NEW. A Fine Book in a Fine Dust Jacket. Harry N. Abrams hardcover
