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8vo., First Edition, fore-edges a little dust-soiled; green cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, neat illustration on front free endpaper; green cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter frayed at extremities, chipped (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip, and mildly browned on (predominantly white) rear panel.
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispieces and 31 plates on 18, tops faintly dust-soiled; blue cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in price-clipped dustwrapper. The set comprises: Volume I: 1894-1939 (1973); Vol. II: 1939-1963 (1974). Bright set of the standard biography.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; pale green cloth, backstrip with printed paper label, green top, uncut, backstrip lightly sunned, two corners mildly bruised else a very good, clean copy. With spare paper label tipped-in at end. SCARCE. Muir and Van Thal, p.25
Mm 115x165 Edizione francese / French edition -- Edition pour l'étranger de 1500 exemplaires sur vélin, numerotés de E. 91 à E. 1590 (exemplaire n. E. 409) -- Brossura editoriale a stampa con bandelle, 61 pagine. Opera in ottime condizioni. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full red cloth boards. Previous owner's name inside. Attractive small format: 4 3/4"w x 7 1/2"h. 350 pages.
Clean and unmarked; tight binding. Previous owner's name inside. Age-toned paper. 284 pages.
241 p. Paper beginning to brown but not brittle. 175mm. Softbound. Covers rubbed, worn and slightly soiled. Bantam Books paperback. Second printing. Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. LIT BX 7
8vo., First Edition, endpapers lightly browned; grey cloth, gilt back, blue top, a bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter very lightly frayed and creased at edges.
4 pages of illustrations 278 pages. Slight soiling to covers.
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny bump to spine foot and no bumping to very sharp corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with rubbing/nicks to upper edge. 278pp. A joint biography of Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley, the latter known as Darwin's Bulldog for his advocacy of Darwin's theory of evolution.
8vo., First Edition,top and fore-edge lightly spotted; original yellow cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter sunned at backstrip and mildly age-spotted. Cross & Perkin A31.
8vo., boards gilt, cloth back gilt, uncut, cancelled stamp on title else a very good copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 550 COPIES
8vo., First Edition, small neat signature on front paste-down; burgundy cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at folds-ins and with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Huxley reviews the facts concerning cancer in the light of modern biological advances, and concludes that its study can no longer be regarded merely as a specialised branch of medicine but is a focal field of general biology.
No marks or inscriptions . Crease to front cover, none to rear. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly rubbed spine and no bumping to corners. 163p. This issue includes Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael, Jack Higgins (Harry Patterson), Aldous Huxley novels, John Hadfield, humorist Paul Jennings, Kathleen Hale and 'Orlando the Marmalade Cat', collecting early printed books, index and letters and classified..
A very small number of classified section listings highlighted with a tick or pale blue. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slighly tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 115pp. This issue includes Frank Richards and 'Billy Bunter', Oxford University Press World's Classics, Rose Macaulay, the importance of dust-jackets, Kay Nielsen's illustrated books and Aldous Huxley fiction.
1st edition. 12mo, 168 pages, no illustrations. VG hbk in green cloth, gilt spine lettering. With a foreword by Peter Scott. A discussion on mankind and his environmental impact . 23908. eng
323 pages. Index. Map endpapers. Many reproductions of archival black and white photos. Includes many local familiy histories. Unmarked with moderate wear to pale orange-coloured boards. Binding intact. A sound copy of this wonderful genealogical reference. Book
A brochure for Microtomes for electron microscopy with details on operation, mechanisms, oil-filled dashpots and maintenance. 12 pages. Four binder holes punched to side edge. 344 Sheet E: Liquid-nitrogen cooling attachment stapled to inside back cover.
Book shows very light wear to covers with a little edge wear. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 120 pages with occasional b&w photos. William Burroughs was a big fan of this device, cover shows him staring into it.
307p. 12mo. Original full cloth binding decorated in green and pink. Sun Dial Library. Crome Yellow is the first novel by British author Aldous Huxley, first published in 1921. Here Huxley satirises the fads and fashions of the time. It is the story of a house party at Crome, a parodic version of Garsington Manor, home of Lady Ottoline Morrell, a house where authors such as Huxley and T. S. Eliot used to gather and write. There is a brief pre-figuring of Huxley's great later novel, Brave New World. OCC 4
8vo., Second Impression, free endpapers lightly browned; original burgundy cloth, gilt back, uncut, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. With publisher's advertisement leaf at end. Collects eleven essays relating to evolution, the 'Origin' and the aftermath, by one of Darwin's closest friends and staunchest supporters. Volume two of Huxley's 'Collected Essays' but complete in itself. First published in the previous year. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
in-8°, 295 pages, index, Hardback + DW VG+/VG+ [EN-1]
Paris, Librairie Stock, Delamain et Boutelleau, Le Cabinet Cosmopolite, N° 61, 1931. In-8, broché, 258 pp., couverture imprimée. (Masereel). Edition originale de la traduction française. Un des exemplaires numérotés sur Alfa satiné, bel exemplaire.
8vo., small neat signature on front free endpaper; plum cloth, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. Published as Collected Essays Vol. IX. Collects five major essays written between 1886 and 1894.
