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24162Garden City: Doubleday Doran and Company 1931. First American edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very good in a very good jacket. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1931. hardcover books
1986Embry 195930Folio Society 1986. First printing thus. Fine in near fine to fine publisher's slipcase with a few faint spots. Folio Society, 1986. First printing thus. unknown books
195693387NY:: Harper & Brothers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1956. Hardcover. B00005WZ4W . A later printing. Offsetting on front endpapers and a few interior pages from old newspaper clippings else very good in a very good minor edge wear and age toning dust jacket. . Harper & Brothers, hardcover books
1971WRCLIT83434Los Angeles: Warner Brothers 1971. Three 8x10 color small format lobby cards with printed captions. Light use and multiple pinholes in extreme corners from display ink note on one verso very good. Three examples #s 46 & 7 of the color mini- lobby cards issued to promote the controversial film treatment by Ken Russell of the historical record of Father Grandier and the alleged instances of possession among the Nuns of Loudon based on Huxley's book and Whiting's play. Vanessa Redgrave Oliver Reed and Christopher Logue were among the players and Derek Jarmon's set design is of considerable importance. The stills depict Grandier before the Inquisitors Grandier bound to the stake under assault by the Chief Inquisitor and Vanessa Redgrave's ecstasy prior to Grandier's death. Warner Brothers unknown books
1947WRCLIT75443Universal City: Universal Studios / National Screen Service 1947. Eight 11 x 14" full color lobby cards. NSS blindstamp in lower extreme corner of each card three short strips of paper tape not as repairs on verso of title card upper right blank margin of title card has a short nick and some creasing but otherwise a very good or better bright set. A complete set of the lobby cards issued to promote US distribution of Huxley's own adaptation to the screen of his 1922 story "The Giaconda Smile." Zoltan Korda directed stars Charles Boyer Ann Blyth Jessica Tandy and Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Huxley's name is prominently incorporated in each of the cards. BROMER D3. Universal Studios / National Screen Service unknown books
198832723New York: Continuum 1988. Octavo pp. i-vi vii viii ix-xii xiii-xiv 1-154 boards. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #32723 Continuum unknown books
1916WRCLIT31433Oxford: Blackwell 1916. Plain wrappers printed labels. With tipped in review slip for American distribution by Longmans Green and Co. Light foxing a couple rubs to wrappers small nick to spine label but very good. First edition. Huxley co-edited this volume with Earp and Childe and contributed three poems. Only two of those poems appeared in THE BURNING WHEEL published the same year including the title poem here simply entitled "The Wheel." Meyerstein Nichols Mitchison Vines and Strong also contribute. Blackwell unknown books
1961137012Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 1961. Octavo pp. x 150 cloth. First edition. A fine copy in good dust jacket with rubbing and edge wear short tear and creasing to bottom of front panel and small internal tape mend. #137012 University of California Press unknown books
1937WRCLIT33672London: Chatto & Windus 1937. Printed wrappers. First edition. Wrappers a bit tanned as usual a bit of foxing to endleaves a few soft creases otherwise for this title a very good copy. Chatto & Windus unknown books
196985322London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1969. Octavo pp. 1-11 12-244 boards. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #85322 Rupert Hart-Davis unknown books
198232718Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press 1982. Octavo pp. i-vi vii-ix x xi xii 1-2 3-250 251: colophon 252: blank illustrations cloth. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #32718 The University of Wisconsin Press unknown books
1998708039NY: St. Martin's Press. 1998. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
193732579London: Chatto & Windus 1937. 1st edition Eschelbach & Shober 24. Pale yellow paper wrapper with red lettering. Some tanning and soiling to covers/small chip to spine crown otherwise a Very Good copy. 2 125 1 pp including Index. 7-1/4" x 5" <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus unknown books
1998245632New York: St. Martin's Press 1998. Hardcover. xii 141p. 5.25x7.25 inches fine first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Previously unpublished fantasy about a California rancher who discovers he has the power to heal which leads him to a church in Los Angeles. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
1927WRCLIT38438London: Dulau & Co. Ltd. 1927. Gilt polished buckram t.e.g. Bookplate of John Howell Books else near fine and bright. First edition deluxe issue. One of fifty numbered copies specially printed on Japan vellum specially bound and signed by Huxley and Powys from a total edition of 550. Dulau & Co. Ltd. hardcover books
1927WRCLIT75005London: Dulau & Co. 1927. Cloth and gilt boards. First edition trade issue. One of 550 copies. Fine in dust jacket. Dulau & Co. hardcover books
1927WRCLIT33671London: Dulau & Co. 1927. Cloth and gilt boards. First edition trade issue. One of 550 copies. A couple of sharp bumps to bottom edge else about fine in a spine-darkened lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Dulau & Co. hardcover books
1999WRCLIT33347New York: St. Martin's 1999. Glossy pictorial wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first U.S. edition. Originally written as a screen story. A fine copy. St. Martin's unknown 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