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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
193252371Minneapolis: The Attic House 1932. 14 x 11 cm pp. 16; self-wrappers colophon states edition size was "about 90" fine. Rulon-Miller Wulling 17. <br/><br/> The Attic House unknown books
187738605London: Churchill 1877. Huxley Thomas 1825-95. A manual of the anatomy of invertebrated animals. 8vo. viii 698 2 adverts.pp. Wood-engraved text illustrations. London: Churchill 1877. 172 x 108 mm. partly unopened. Original cloth a bit worn & shaken. Title a bit browned but a very good copy. Ownership inscription opposite title. First Edition. Huxley spent over twenty years writing this textbook on the comparative anatomy of invertebrates the companion to his Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals 1871. Huxley was a gifted teacher as well as scientist and wrote several works intended for student use. Churchill unknown books
1878216274New York: Appleton 1878. hardcover. very good. Illustrated. 8vo 3/4 tan calf marbled boards marbled edges ornately gilt spine with red and green leather labels. New York: Appleton 1878. Very good .<br/><br/> A textbook which is a little masterpiece of its kind. Huxley never accepted without qualification the Darwinian principle. He thought "transmutation may take place without transition" and thereby anticipated the findings of modern research. He liberated the English anatomical school from the deductive method and sounded the keynote of the social medicine of the future. - Garrison-Morton 338; Casey Wood p. 396.<br/><br/> Appleton unknown books
1888M6966New York:: D. Appleton 1888. 1888. 203 x 132 mm. 8vo. 596 ads 4 pp. 158 figs. index. Blind- and black-stamped brick red cloth gilt spine; spine ends frayed. Very good. D. Appleton, 1888. hardcover books
1878RW1491New York:: D. Appleton 1878. 1878. 8vo. 431 1 pp. 110 figs. index. Original mauve blind- and gilt-stamped cloth; joints cracked. Bookplate of Eduard Uhlenhuth ownership stamps of B.F. Harrison Wallingford Connecticut on front free endleaf and title. Very good. Contents include: "A General View of the Organization of the Vertebrata—The Vertebrate Skeleton" "The Muscles and the Viscera" "The Provinces of the Vertebrata—The Class Pisces" "The Class Amphibia" etc. PROVENANCE: Edouard Uhlenhuth 1853-1900 was a German photographer remembered for his portraits of royalty. D. Appleton, 1878. hardcover books
1932207882New York: Harper and Brothers 1932. Hardcover. viii 142p. Very good in edgeworn soiled and faded dust jacket with a 1 inch chunk missing from middle of spine. Here for the first time a scientist versed in the experimental method comments on the greatest experiment of our generation. Harper and Brothers hardcover books
192456595Edinburgh: Printed by Oliver and Boyd 1924. 8vo pp. 215-248 17 leaves; original green printed wrappers. Reprinted from the British Journal of Experimental Biology Vol. 1 January 1924. <br/><br/> Printed by Oliver and Boyd unknown books
158936hardcover. Illus. 8vo cloth. N.Y.: Viking 1957. vg<br/><br/> 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
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
196508207London: Chatto & Windus 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. A fine review copy in a near fine dust jacket. With review slip laid-in. 174 pp. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1961WRCLIT74947Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 1961. Cloth. First edition. With a foreword by Huxley. About fine in a rubbed and lightly frayed dust jacket with chipping to the head and toe of the spine. University of California Press hardcover books
1974WRCLIT84467London: Chatto & Windus / Collins 1974. Pale green printed wrapper. Frontis and plates. Spine cocked with closed horizontal tear but a very good copy. Uncorrected proof of the UK edition utilized for review in the US in anticipation of Knopf's publication of the US edition The title page and upper wrapper are annotated accordingly. Chatto & Windus / Collins unknown books
1964WRCLIT33252Los Angeles: University of California Library 1964. Pictorial wrappers. Frontis facsimiles illustrations. First edition. One of 1200 copies. A near fine copy. University of California Library 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
1975WRCLIT32043London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1975. Thick octavo. Cloth. First edition. Spine a bit cocked top edge dusty a few light spots on cloth else good or better in a spine- faded lightly rubbed dust jacket. Routledge & Kegan Paul hardcover 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
197330322London: Chatto & Windus/William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1973. First edition. 400 pp. Brief ink notation--three numbers-- on the front free endpaper else very near fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket with a tear to spine and a small chip from back cover. Invitation to the publication party for the American edition laid in. London: Chatto & Windus/William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 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
192510342London: Chatto & Windus 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 260 pp. 4 pp. ads Fresh sage/blue cloth bookplate of Don Bregenzer editor. Chatto & Windus hardcover books