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1931017974London: Chatto & Windus. 1931. Nathanael West's copy of Huxley's collection of poetry with West's holograph notes on five of the front and rear endpages. Approximately 250 words mostly quotes of other writers -- Huxley Gray Shakespeare; some light but most quite serious: "In matters of love it is absurd to stand on your dignity and claim your rights. Such experiences cannot be judged and calculated like a matter of business. One gives as much and as long as one can & one does not bargain. Take what is given to you." West concludes with: "The paths of glory lead but to the grave." The year this book was published West published his first novel. Later in the 1930s both West and Huxley were employed as Hollywood screenwriters. West died in 1940 at the age of 37. The provenance of this book leads from West to his brother-in-law S.J. Perelman to the writer and bookseller George Sims who recounts the circumstances of his purchasing books from Perelman in the early 1970s presumably including this one. A photocopy of a note from Sims is laid in. Fading to spine spotting to cloth short tear to lower front joint; still very good without dust jacket. Publisher's extra spine label tipped to rear free endpaper. A wonderful glimpse of West's musings and inner life. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1933140940405London: Hutchinson & Co 1933. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. 432 12 ads pp. Dark navy cloth stamped in blind at front spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with bumped corners and light edge wear in a Very Good dust jacket with a little expert restoration of the head sunning and crease to spine panel edge wear single piece of tape on verso. Signed on front free endpaper by H.G. Wells and inscribed to Julian Huxley brother of Brave New World author Aldous Huxley and a co-author with Wells of the 1930 nonfiction book The Science of Life "Julian another from H.G." Huxley's close reading of this copy is clear from his marginal pencil lines throughout which he indexed in pencil on the rear endpaper and paste down. A significant association between two major British intellectuals with similar philosophies who for a time had a close friendship. While best known as "the father of science fiction" for his pioneering novels that presaged many future technologies such as this work Wells was also a trained biologist whose first published book was a science text. Huxley was a prominent evolutionary theorist and eugenicist following in his father's footsteps-- his father being Wells' biology professor and mentor in college. According to Julian's Memoirs the two met in 1926. Shortly thereafter he was asked by Wells to collaborate with him and his son G.P. on a scientific follow-up to Wells' epic The Outline of History that would become The Science of Life. Wells proved to be a demanding taskmaster rusty about biology having focused on fiction and other subjects for so long and Huxley had to resign his professorship to handle the bulk of the research and writing. The two became close friends and correspondents over the next three years. They would stay friends until 1941 when Huxley dared to limit Wells to 20 minutes at the podium of an upcoming meeting of the British Association. Wells had been looking forward to expounding on many of his internationalist futurist ideas expounded in this novel and his nonfiction The New World Order at great length was mortally offended at the rebuff canceled his appearance and the two never met again. Hutchinson & Co unknown books
19319026711Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in publisher's original dark-blue cloth with blue stripe on either side of spine and gilded top edges. H. G. Wells' signature is stamped in gilt on the cover of each volume. One of 750 numbered sets. Volume One is signed in ink by each of the three authors. The frontispiece of each volume contains a colorful illustration in a theme related to the subject matter of the work. Many detailed black-and-white illustrations of biota throughout including photographs. <br/><br/>Hardcover Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. hardcover books
200968775London: Goodman 2009. First edition. 4to. 125 pp w/index. Fine in illustrated boards. Includes over 20 facsimile documents from his personal archive. London: Goodman hardcover books
1950192212Oxford University Press 1950-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Good. Dust jacket is wrapped- jacket has rubbing and shallow chipping along the edges. Red cloth boards are rubbed along the bottom edge has a good binding no marks or notations. Oxford University Press hardcover books
196814097New York: Greenwood Press 1968. Cloth. Near Fine. A very handsome example of this 1968 Greenwood Press re-issue of T.H. Huxley's collected essays complete in 9 volumes. Save for a tiny former owner name and date stamped to the top-edge of each front pastedown all 9 volumes are tight and crisp and virtually pristine. Thick uniform octavos in their wine-red cloth with bright unrubbed gilt-lettering along the spines each volume is solid and well-preserved and easily Near Fine. This collection of essays from the renowned English biologist even in this re-issue is uncommon as such in its complete run. <br/><br/> Greenwood Press hardcover books
S1853London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd. Collectible - Acceptable. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1898. Volume I. 7.5x10.5". Green cloth cover with gold lettering and lines on spine. 606 pp. Includes B&W frontis and illustrations. Ex-library: lettering on spine. Cover soiled. Text block tight. Some pages edges slightly dampstained. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd. hardcover books
S1855London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd. Collectible - Acceptable. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1901. Volume III. 7.5x10.5". Green cloth cover with gold lettering and lines on spine. 622 pp. Includes B&W frontis and illustrations. Ex-library: lettering on spine. Cover soiled. Text block tight. Some pages edges slightly dampstained. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd. hardcover books
S1854London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd. Collectible - Acceptable. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1899. Volume II. 7.5x10.5". Green cloth cover with gold lettering and lines on spine. 612 pp. Includes B&W frontis and illustrations. Ex-library: lettering on spine. Cover soiled. Text block tight. Some pages edges slightly dampstained. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd. hardcover books
19251335231London: Chapman & Hall Ltd 1925. 567/1000. Hardcover. Octavo; G-; pp 187; tanned beige 1/4 bound spine with gilt text; limited numbered copies; this is 567 of 1000; no jacket; cloth has modest age toning to exterior; rubbed fore corners; pictorial panels; sturdy boards; sunned exterior edges; age darkened spine; sturdy boards; text block edges have slight age toning; top edge gilt; deckled edges; offset to endpapers; slight pencil to endpapers; some uncut pages; interior clean. 1335231. FP New Rockville Stock. Chapman & Hall Ltd hardcover books
1928005603London and New York: Peter Davies Ltd./ Harper and Bros. 1928. n the original cream boards patterned in blue cream cloth spine lettered in gilt with blue lines tipped-in errata slip. Printed at the Curwen Press. Near Fine no jacket cloth rubbed at corners. . First Edition. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Peter Davies Ltd./ Harper and Bros. hardcover books
18346En.d. First Edition. Original 3 page typescript of a treatment scenario for Aldous Huxley’s novel ‘Point Counter Point’ by Arthur Sheekman. With notations in pencil and ink in Mr. Sheekman’s hand. Arthur Sheekman 1901 - 1978 started out as a newspaper columnist and drama critic with the ‘Manhattan Newspaper’ before turning his sights to a career in the Hollywood film industry. In 1931 he worked as a scenarist for the classic Marx Brothers film ‘Monkey Business’ which was the beginning of Sheekman’s close personal and professional relationship with Groucho Marx. Sheekman also worked as a script writer on the Marx Brothers film ‘Duck Soup’ and on Groucho and Chico’s radio series ‘Flywheel Shyster and Flywheel’. Other Sheekman film projects include the 1933 Eddie Cantor musical ‘Roman Scandals’ where he met his future bride the lovely actress Gloria Stuart Danny Kaye’s ‘Wonder Man’ 1945 Bing Crosby’s ‘Welcome Stranger’ 1947 and ‘Mr. Music’ 1950 Joe E. Brown’s ‘The Gladiator’ 1938 ‘Call Me Madam’ 1953 and Daniel Mann’s ‘Ada’ 1961. unknown books
194043704London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd 1940. First Edition. Octavo 24cm.; publisher's cloth in cream dust jacket printed in green; 475pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Light chipping to jacket extremities shallow tear at bottom of pp. 9/10 not approaching text else a Very Good or better copy in the scarce jacket. Posthumously published and unfinished sequel to the author's "Sex and Culture" 1934. The later text attempts to answer the question as put by Huxley in his introduction "What are the conditions which must be fulfilled if a society is to go on displaying maximum energy for an indefinite period" p. 17. Thus does Unwin describe a Utopia in which sex is made available by two forms of marriage monogamous and polygamous which citizens can choose and change at will. This way: "The rulers of the world are made free by this structure to focus on the maintenance of a sustainable state" www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Ultimately however Unwin argues that the most advanced societies are those that strictly adhere to monogamy sexual freedom depleting the civilization's energy. BROMER B.59.1. George Allen and Unwin Ltd unknown books
1999Embry 179145W. W. Norton 1999. First edition first printing. Fine in near fine slightly edgeworn dust jacket in mylar cover. W. W. Norton, 1999. First edition, first printing. unknown books
199971926New York: W. W. Norton & Company 1999. Hardcover. 400p. foreword editor's preface chronology key to addresses works cited appendixes index very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. W. W. Norton & Company hardcover books
1978WALTER-FILM004123Softcover/Paperback. Very Good. Manuscript Aldous Huxley source Robert E. Thompson screenwriter Set of two 2 vintage original revised draft scripts USA. Hollywood: Universal Studios 1978. Two volumes brad bound printed wrappers quarto.1118;1119-234. <br /><br />Revised drafts of scripts for what was originally conceived as a two part mini-series but aired on television in the U.S. in March of 1980 as an abridged single 3-hour film. The BBC however broadcast the uncut version in March of 1981. Doran William Cannon contributed to the final version of the production script. <br /><br />The present draft which is credited to Thompson alone includes revisions dated from 7 April through 6 June 1978. This was the very first screen adaptation of Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel which to date remains his most celebrated work. It is a difficult book to bring to the screen and there have been three subsequent versions of which the most recent one is in pre-production at this time. Universal paperback books
1951UPRASON00HMRMentor 1951. Good. Prabhavananda Swami. The Song of God: Bhagavad-Gita. Isherwood Christopher; Huxley introduction Aldous. New York: Mentor 1951. 143pp. 16mo. Mass Market. Book condition: Good. Rubbed bumped and scuffed. Former owner's name penned on first page. Mentor paperback books
007974Los Angeles Public Library - Ward Ritchie Press 1937. Original Wraps. Very Good. 79 pp.One of 750 copies. Slight discoloration at extremities of covers light closed tear upper spine upper right corner slightly bent. Los Angeles Public Library - Ward Ritchie Press, 1937 unknown books
194815404New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Green cloth hardcover. Blindstamped title to front. Gilt lettering to spine. Mild handling wear. Spine cloth lightly faded. Overall clean sound. <br/><br/>First American printing of this biography of the important 19th Century Indian mystic with a foreword by Aldous Huxley. Code of "L-W" to the copyright page indicates a printing date of November 1947. An uncommon Huxley appearance. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover books
185920244London: Printed for the Ray Society 1859. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. Folio pp. viii-x 143 blank ff 24 blank; dull green library linen boards with gilt lettering on spine; boards lightly soiled and rubbed; call numbers stamped to heel of spine; library bookplate to pastedown with "Discard" stamp; four-inch tear to fore-edge of half-title leaf; embossed library stamp and pencil annotations to title leaf; embossed library stamp to p. 1; library tickets and pockets to rear endpapers; cellotape repair to top edge of last plate; else a sound ex-library copy. Illustrated with twelve uncolored lithograph plates and accompanying letterpress descriptive text. Cloth. While serving as ship's surgeon aboard the H.M.S. Rattlesnake Huxley 1825-1895 collected and studied specimens of hydrozoas in the waters off Australia New Guinea and Palermo Italy. Through careful dissections and close observation of physical relationships Huxley succeeded in bringing more detailed order to the knowledge of these minute organisms. Printed for the Ray Society unknown books
192556597Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1925. 8vo pp. 379-384 3 leaves; original printed wrappers. Reprinted from the Journal of Anatomy Vol. LIX Part IV July 1925. <br/><br/> Cambridge University Press unknown books
192556594Edinburgh: Printed by Oliver and Boyd 1925. 8vo pp. 9-34 2 1 photographic plate; original green printed wrappers; illuatrations throughout. Reprinted from the British Journal of Experimental Biology Vol. III October 1925. <br/><br/> Printed by Oliver and Boyd unknown books
192556785Cambridge: Reprinted from the Journal of Anatomy 1925. 8vo pp. 379-384; original printed wrappers. Reprinted from the Journal of Anatomy vol. LIX Part IV July 1925. <br/><br/> Reprinted from the Journal of Anatomy unknown books
19635983Cambridge: The Psychedelic Review 1963. First edition. Very Good/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. 23 cm; 260 pages. Printed wraps slightly discolored with a nick on the joint. Else fine. The Psychedelic Review paperback books
1974WRCLIT73073Los Angeles: Friends of the UCLA Library 1974. Pictorial green cloth. Photographs and facsimiles. Fine without dust jacket as issued. First edition. One of 1250 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom. Introduction by Lawrence C. Powell. A 1952 panel discussion involving Huxley Powell Dorothy Conway Friede Lawrence and Majl Ewing edited here for first publication by Haruhide Mori. Friends of the UCLA Library hardcover books
