Huxley AldousABAA
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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
19251321424New York: D Appleton and Company 1925. First US Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; G Hardcover; Yellow spine with Gray pencil text; Boards strong slight cocking to spine title written in pencil on spine bumping and rubbing to corners heavy edgewear moderate shelfwear; Textblock has foxing on some pages brown marks on rear endpaper and pastedown age toning otherwise clean; 63 pp; First US Edition. 1321424. FP New Rockville Stock. D Appleton and Company hardcover books
192572031NY:: D. Appleton and Company. Good. 1925. Hardcover. No statement of printing. Moderate shelf wear and aging glue marks on front paste-down front free endpaper has been removed else good in yellow cloth and decorated paper covered boards. No dust jacket. ; 63 pages . D. Appleton and Company, hardcover books
3664NY APPLETON 1925. FINE. NY, APPLETON, 1925 unknown books
1925WRCLIT60469Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1925. Decorated boards. First edition. Boards a trace tanned and lightly worn at edges otherwise a very good or better copy of a fragile book. Basil Blackwell hardcover books
1925WRCLIT18965New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1925. Cloth and gilt decorated boards paper label. First edition American issue bound up from British sheets with a cancel title-leaf. Bookplate of Paul Horgan on pastedown. Trace of soiling to label else a fine copy. D. Appleton & Co. hardcover books
1925WRCLIT46049New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1925. Cloth and gilt decorated boards paper label. First edition American issue bound up from British sheets and a cancel title-leaf. Edges a bit shelf-rubbed and darkened but very good. D. Appleton & Co. hardcover books
19252393Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1925. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. Author John Bowles copy with his name and date on front free endpaper. 63pp Bound in decorative paper covered boards paper spine label couple of chips to spine; light foxing on some leaves. In all a very good copy. <br/><br/> Basil Blackwell hardcover books
135967n.p.: n.pub n.d. 14p. mimeographed sheets folded to make 5.5x7.5 inch pamphlet; cover foxed with two stains interior clean. This appears to be a version of Huxley's pamphlet by this title that was circulated at Trabuco College in 1943. The first page appears identical to the Trabuco copy illustrated on the Gerald Heard website but the cover differs in that Huxley is not cited as the author. This format of the work not listed in OCLC. n.pub unknown books
1933JC9589New York and London: Harper & Brothers 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 322. Spine rubbed; spine tips and corners gently bumped; otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket scuffed chipped torn; but fair in mylar. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1932WRCLIT23740London: Chatto & Windus 1932. Cloth. First trade edition. Very good in lightly used dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
191608010Oxford: B. H. Blackwell 1916. First Edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Small Octavo. Author's First Book. With the bookplate of Francis James Rennell Rodd Major General and 2nd Baron Rennell. A near fine copy bound in original cream wrappers with printed label front cover. Half title decorative pictorial frontis and title page. Scattered foxing. A very nice copy. 51 pp. 1p. publisher's ad at rear. <br/><br/> B. H. Blackwell paperback books
