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19521110455Harper & Brothers. Collectible - Good. 1952. First Edition First Printing. Hard Cover. F276 Stated with "H-B" wear to the top of the spine; clean and tight pages; dust jacket has tears but looks attractive in the protective mylar . Harper & Brothers hardcover
19521811461Harper & Brothers. Good/No Dust Wrapper. 1952. Hard Cover. F406 early printing K-B on the copyright page; . Harper & Brothers hardcover
1953391981New York: Harper & Brothers 1953. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Light stain on a couple of pages modest wear at the spine ends near very good lacking the dustwrapper. With the bookplate of the important rocket scientist and influential science-fiction fan John Drury Clark the bookplate has one corner folded under. In addition to writing an important book on rocket propulsion as well as a couple of stories in "Astounding Stories" Clark was also instrumental in revitalizing and promoting the career of Robert E. Howard. He was college roommates with L. Sprague de Camp who he encouraged to write science fiction stories introduced de Camp to his sometime co-writer Fletcher Pratt and eventually married Pratt's widow Inga. His previous marriage prompted Pratt to form a club of science fiction writers and scientists called The Trap Door Spiders so that they wouldn't have to socialize with Clark's first wife. Isaac Asimov later fictionalized the club as a group of mystery solvers The Black Widowers. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1952000813London: Chatto & Windus 1952. Presumed First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The historical narrative of perhaps the most astonishing case of mass 'possession' in history. 375 pp. plus Bibliography. Book features bright orange boards with gilt text on brown rectangle surrounded by gilt fringe on spine. Corners are as new top edge dyed gray frontis: An engraving from 'Urbain Grandier et les Possedees de Loudun' by Dr. Gabriel Legué. Browned 7 1/2" X 2" strip on f&rfep book is tight and square some foxing on fore edge tiny bit of scuffing at head of spine. Unclipped 18s. net DJ has internal foxing 1/2" tear near head of spine on front panel some top edge chipping and rear panel foxing. Digital pictures available on request. This book is considered by many to be Huxley's finest work. Bookseller's Inventory # 110813. <br/> <br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover
1953002916New York: Harper & Bros 1953. Huxley's "historical narrative" of religious hysteria in 17th-Century France. Originally published in 1952; this is a Fine copy of a Later Printing one year later. Orange paper-covered boards with red cloth spine. Spine titles and decoration in black red and gilt. Clean text; 340 pages indexed and w2ith a bibliography. Exceptionally clean and bright. The dustjacket shows some light edgewear with some creasing at the head of the spine. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Harper & Bros Hardcover
192422578London: Chatto & Windus 1924. First trade edition. Fine and entirely unopened in jacket with some spotting jacket spine panel darkened. xii 121 pp. small octavo original blue cloth and decorative boards printed paper spine label extra spine label tipped in at rear. <br/><br/>Bromer E7.1.2. Chatto & Windus hardcover
192429815Chatto & Windus 1924 Hardcover limited First Edition in black clothbacked decorative boards with paper spine title label #45 of 210 numbered copies printed at the Curwen Press pages wholly uncut a Near Fine unmarked copy with spare title label still attached inside rear board; 8vo; 121pp. First Edition / Limited. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1954546325London: Chatto & Windus 1954. Hard cover in very good condition for its age with DJ in good condition. Previous owner has penned FEP. General shelf and handling wear including light chipping creasing and wear to DJ cover edges corners and folds. Tanning and age-related discolouration present. Several small closed tears noted. Boards are very clean with tanning to pageblock endpapers and lightly to pages edge. Within leaves are tightly bound and content is unmarked. CN. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Used. Chatto & Windus Hardcover
1961240615-MB44Penguin Books 1961. original Penguin paperback Very Good condition. First Paperback Edition. Mass Market Paper Back. Very Good. Penguin Books
195412744New York NY USA: Harper & Brothers 1954. Later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The publishing date on the book is 1954 the Harper code date is D-F for April 1956. The black boards have bright gilt letters to the spine no mark with 79 pages. The dust jacket is price clipped no tears but light edge wear to flaps and spine in a Brodart cover now. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover
1954018<p>London: Chatto & Windus 1954. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition second impression. Tight and square binding in blue cloth; bright gilt; darkened a little at the edges. Flyleaf has a gift inscription to an unnamed previous owner else bright crisp and clean. The unclipped first-state dustwrapper 6s net stated is Very Good: slightly yellowed but bright colours with toning to the spine minor chipping to bottom spine. 63 pp.</p> Chatto & Windus hardcover
19542018196<p>If I'm not mistaken this is the first US edition of Huxley's <em>The Doors of Perception. </em>This particular copy has a dust jacket in poor condition with pieces of the jacket missing especially a large chunk out of the part that would be covering the spine see pictures. The book itself is on the low end of good condition: the binding of the pages is loose although no pages are missing or tearing out. Some foxing on the front and back pastedowns and endpapers and on the fore-edge of the text block. Significant shelf wear on the head and tail of the cover.</p> Harper & Brothers hardcover
1964061894New York: Harper & Row 1964. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. A Good copy in black hard covers lettered in gold paper-covered boards and cloth spine in an edge-worn Good at best dust jacket. The jacket is not price-clipped. Tanning to the outer edges of the text block and to the endpapers clean/unmarked within and not ex-library. Latest copyright page date is 1956 but with "0164" at the bottom corner of the front jacket flap so apparently a 1964 printing. <br/> <br/> Harper & Row hardcover
1954190560London: Chatto & Windus 1954. First UK edition. In 1952 Huxley contacted the psychiatric researcher Humphry Osmond requesting that he be allowed to take the psychedelic drug mescaline under observation. Huxley felt that the brain restricts consciousness and was hoping that mescaline would increase awareness; The Doors of Perception was Huxley's account of the subsequent experiment which took place in May 1953. The work takes its title from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1793: "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: Infinite. For man has closed himself up till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern". Huxley's detailing of the aesthetic and psychological revelations he experienced while under the influence of mescaline prompted his publishers to say of the manuscript that: "You are the most articulate guinea pig that any scientist could hope to engage" Murray p. 399. The UK edition was preceded by the US edition by eight days. Octavo. Original blue cloth spine lettered in gilt bottom edge untrimmed. With dust jacket designed by John Woodcock. Gilt lettering partially faded top edge of book block foxed; jacket unclipped spine and rear panel a little toned a few nicks and one short closed tear to edges colours bright: a near-fine copy in like jacket. Bromer A68.2; Eschelbach & Shober 22. Nicholas Murray Aldous Huxley Abacus 2003. hardcover
1954433939Harper & Brothers 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 79 pages. An autobiographical work by the author of Brave New World. 'A vivid arresting and first hand description of the effects of mescalin a little known drug of unusual properties.'--publisher's blurb. This is the book that inspired the name of the 1960s rock band The Doors. First American edition first printing. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with the $1.50 price present on the front flap.<br> Harper & Brothers hardcover
195721997United Kingdom: Chatto & Windus Ltd 1957. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A vivid and first hand description of the effects of mescalin the active ingredient of peyote - the desert cactus long used by the indians of Mexico in their religious ceremonies. Fifth Imp. Chatto & Windus Ltd London 1957. 64pp hb dw frayed & discoloured pages browned pict blue dw gilt blue cloth book vg <br/> <br/> Chatto & Windus Ltd hardcover
1990Q-0060900075Harpercollins 1990-07-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Harpercollins paperback
19701804307Harper & Row. Good. 1970. Clean & Tight Contents. Mass Market Paperback. K116 yellowed pages but otherwise in great shape . Harper & Row paperback
1938527593New York: Wiley Book Co 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Note by Jean Videpoche. Small quarto. 55pp. 30 reproductions in black and white and six plates in full color. Sunning to the top of the front board and toning to the spine else near fine in a very good or better dust jacket with creasing to the bottom of the front panel sunning to the spine a small ink mark on the rear flap and rubbing. Wiley Book Co hardcover
1938378573New York: Willey Book Co 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First edition. 55pp. Illustrated with reproductions six color plates and twenty-four black and white. A note by Jean Videpoche. Contemporary owner's inscription on front fly edges lightly tanned still near fine in a good only albeit scarce dustwrapper with chips and tears along the extremities. Willey Book Co hardcover
195563027New York: Harper and Brothers 1955. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 21.5cm x 15cm. Publisher's black cloth spine over grey cloth boards. Dustjacket. Titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board light bumping to spine ends some of the gilt a trifle dulled in a clean strong pricelipped dustjacket a touch faded to the spine panela small closed tear to the front panel and with some abrasion and two pinholes to the lower edge of the rear panel. A very good copy. 168pp. Internally clean. Fore-edge untrimmed. An unsurprisingly philosophical and exploratory novel dealing with the tangled lives of a Nobel winning genius his wife and the man who came between them. Harper and Brothers unknown
195511758London: Chatto & Windus 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on ffep to Oliver Sacks: "To Ol with love Tony."<br /> From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Folding chipping and loss to upper/lower spine on dj staining to cloth evenly toned minimal shelfwear else very tight bright and unmarred. Blue cloth boards. 8vo. 127pp. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1955243London: Chatto & Windus 1955. First Edition First Impression. Publisher's Turquoise Cloth with Cream and Gilt Detailing. Near Fine/Very Good. A Near Fine Book in a Very Good Illustrated Dust Jacket Price Clipped. Book is lightly shelf worn and sunned to extremities. A small impression is present to the bottom of the front board. Text block is moderately toned. FFEP has a shadow from dust jacket flap. Binding is tight and square and text is unmarked. Charles Mozley designed dust jacket presents beautifully despite its flaws. Jacket is generally shelf worn to extremities with rubbing and chipping present to corners tail and crown including small losses to crown. Rear panel shows soiling and has a small closed tear. Hinges have whitened where front and rear panel meet spine. Hardcover. Small Octavo. 127pp. Chatto & Windus unknown
1955blb02184<p>New York: Harper & Brothers 1955. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine. Quarter black cloth over grey linen-like cloth boards. Typical of Huxleys books with Harper multiple horizontal gilt rulings on spine with gilt publishers device on front grey. Book is tight square and sharp-cornered with no markings or flaws inside or out. Near Fine or better. Clipped Dust Jacket has just one clipping in bottom of front flap original price of $2.75 is on top of flap. DJ has sharp definition with it's rust colored pictorial on front and slight fading on spine with sharp b/w photo of author on rear. First Edition as stated - with G-E code.</p> Harper & Brothers hardcover
195523656London: Chatto and Windus 1955. A first edition first printing published by Chatto and Windus in 1955. A very good copy without inscriptions - some spotting in the very good unclipped wrapper with some rubbing to the edges. Chatto and Windus unknown