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1939434<p><strong>8vo. Publisher s brown cloth; covers are brown with git lettering; 314pp: English language; the dustjacket is not price clipped There is slight edge wear to the di; the top and bottom of the spine are a little rubbed; a previous owner's details are written on the endpapers; the pages are slightly browned; there is slight foxing to the page edges but a near-fine copy. Previous owner's name 'Vivian Cox' to ffep; This book is one of many bought at a local auction that belonged to Vivian Cox. Following demobilisation in 1946 Vivian Cox began a film production career that spanned time at both Shepherd's Bush and Pinewood studios before he joined Rank studios as an independent producer and screenwriter in 1959 until 1967. From 1960 to 1976 Cox produced all the stage shows for the annual Royal Command Film Performance and hosted the royal party. From 1975 until his retirement in 1982 he worked with Sir Bernard Miles as administrator at London's Mermaid Theatre. Vivian Cox died in April 2009 aged 93. This novel by Aldous Huxley tells the story of a Hollywood millionaire fearful of imminent death. </strong></p> Chatto & Windus hardcover
138449London 1939. Orig. helshirtingbd. 314 s. Navn på forsatsbl. . <br/><br/><em>Boken befinner seg på et fjernlager og ekstra leveringstid må beregnes! </em> unknown
1939035284London: Chatto & Windus 1939. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First English Edition. 314 pp. Pale brown boards with gold lettering on the spine only. There is a tiny ding on the top spine. Light rubbing to the corners. Binding is snug and secure. Toned pages throughout especially the cream end-papers. Interior pages are clean and unmarked however. The clipped dust jacket is in good-plus condition with a small chip missing at top spine. Faded spine. A mylar-covered first edition from the author of Brave New World. "A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death whose personal physician happens to be working on a theory of longevity - these are the elements of Aldous Huxley's caustic and entertaining satire on man's desire to live indefinitely.Huxley pursues his characters in their quest for the eternal finishing on a note of horror. Written soon after Huxley left England and settled in California the novel is his examination of American culture particularly what he saw as its narcissism superficiality and obsession with youth. It also raises pertinent philosophical and social issues." Size: Octavo. Chatto & Windus Hardcover
1939Fiction-HuxleyHarper & Brothers New York 1939 Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Clay colored textured cloth on boards with gilt linings and blue title label to front and spine. Book is tight slight spine slant sharp-cornered and Very Good. No jacket. Stated as Tenth Edition on copyright page but only date is 1939. Code B-P. First US edition. 356 pp. octavo original maroon cloth. The story has been interpreted as contemptuous nod to the Hearstian reality of the United States in the early part of the 20th century: Jo Stoyte is an allegory for William Randolph Hearst by his acquisitions of art etc. and living in an opulent estatesimilar to Hearst Castlewith Virginia who can be taken as a parody of Marion Davies. Orson Welles may have been inspired by this novelafter RKO Radio Pictures rejected Welles's two earlier ideas for scriptsto write the screenplay for Citizen Kane with Herman Mankiewicz although their screenplay is very different from the novel. The novel won Huxley the 1939 James Tait Black Memorial Prize which boosted sales. This was the first book Huxley published after moving to California. American readers were fascinated it was his Hollywood novel skewering U.S. wealth immortality obsessions and LA culture. That made it especially marketable in the States. While Harper didnt announce exact numbers typical serious novels of the late 1930s might have 20005000 copies per printing. Ten printings could easily mean 2500040000 copies sold in the first year a strong commercial showing for a literary novel at the time. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Harper & Brothers, New York hardcover
1939019371london: Chatto & Windus 1939. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Brown hardcover. Spine ends rubbed and faded corners slightly bumped. Endpapers darkened pages toned. Dust Jacket Condition: Losses to spine and corners. Light edge wear with slight loss. Covers darkened. Not price clipped <br/> <br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover
1939620098New York: Harper and Brothers 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Bumping at bottom corners near fine in a very good dust jacket with tiny nicks and tears creases and rubbing. A Burgess 99 title. Harper and Brothers hardcover
1939151687London: Chatto & Windus 1939. First edition of this classic novel. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery marbled endpapers all edges gilt frontispiece illustrated. Founded over a century ago in 1900 the Harcourt Bindery is the oldest and largest traditional bindery in America exclusively devoted to fine traditional leather bookbinding by hand. Harcourt Bindery uses 22 karat genuine gold leaf top grades of Nigerian moroccos and hand marbled papers from craftsmen representing seven countries. In fine condition. 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
195332693London: Chatto & Windus / William Heinemann Ltd 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. First Vanguard Library edition. Vanguard Library No. 16. 245pp. Boards. Text block toned. A near fine copy in very good dustjacket with a closed tear to the upper edge of the rear panel some faint spots on the inside and the small bookstore sticker of The American Book Shop of Caracas on the front panel. Barron Anatomy of Wonder 1981 3-413. ; 12mo. Chatto & Windus / William Heinemann Ltd hardcover
1993Q-1566630185Ivan R. Dee 1993-01-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Ivan R. Dee paperback
1939016284New York: Harper & Brothers 1939. Solid copy in its first printing with First Edition stated and M-O on copyright page. Unmarked tight and square. Moderate wear at spine ends. Price intact jacket has shallow chipping at spine ends and edgewear with some light paper loss. Light soiling two small creases. In mylar. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus to Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Brothers Hardcover
193963946London: Chatto and Windus 1939. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 314pp. Octavo 19.5 cm Brown cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Publisher's brown top stain. With darkened strips to the endpapers and toning to the pages else very fresh. In the dust jacket which is torn in half. The story of a Hollywood millionaire who fears his approaching death. Originally published in the UK this novel was published later the same year in the United States under the title "After Many a Summer Dies the Swan."<br /> <br /> From the dust jacket-<br /> <br /> "Central to this extravaganza is the story at once grotesque and painful farcical and reflective of an attempt to prolong the span of human life. But in terms of this rather nightmarish tale of the adventures of a rich man terrified of death the book treats of the ultimate topics of all philosophy- bondage and liberation reality and illusion the problem of good the nature of evil and finally of course causality the great empirical fact that God is not mocked together with that other empirical fact that men are for ever trying to mock God with results that are invariably disastrous. Chatto and Windus hardcover
1939312393New York: Harper & Bros 1939. First American edition. iv 356 pp. 8vo. Original orange-brown cloth dust jacket. Some shelfwear to jacket very good. First American edition. iv 356 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Harper & Bros hardcover
198078171AB1980. London The Folio Society 1980. 16 cm x 23 cm. 239 pages with many illustrations. Original hardcover with slipcase. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Small mark on cover. Clean inside with solid binding. Includes an introduction by David Holloway. "After Many a Summer 1939 is a novel by Aldous Huxley that 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." Wikipedia "Jo Stoyle is afraid of death. But Stoyle is also a millionaire and so he pours his riches into scientific research desperate to find the secret of immortality. This ruthless quest will enmesh everyone around him in a web of greed seduction murder and debasement. Written while he was living in California this is Huxleys response to Hollywoods superficiality and obsession with youth a powerful cautionary tale which employs all his customary wit and merciless insight." Amazon hardcover
193926410N.Y. London Harper & Brothers 1939. Orig. full cloth gilt. No jacket. <br/><br/><em>First American edition. </em> hardcover
193904999AFTER MANY A SUMMER Chatto & Windus 1939 first edition some off-setting from dust-wrapper resulting in browning to portion of both f.e.p. and r.e.p. else just about fine in vg dust-wrapper with some shallow chipping across the head of the dust-wrapper spine. A wealthy man employs a group of scientists to make him immortal. Chatto & Windus unknown
1939396571London: Chatto and Windus 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. A touch cocked with some sunning to the spine and the bottom edge of the front board very good. Distinctive ownership Signature of Elsa Schiaparelli on the title page. Schiaparelli was one of the world’s premiere designers during the 1930s who pioneered numerous now-iconic fashions elements such as the divided skirt trompe-l'oeil detailing synthetic materials and exposed fasteners and as well as incorporated surrealist designed into her work through her collaboration with Jean Cocteau and Salvador Dali. A Burgess 99 title. Chatto and Windus hardcover
1939000632NY: Harper & Brothers 1939. First Edition Stated . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. NY: Harper & Brothers 1939. First Edition Stated . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. <br/> <br/> <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover
1953RO60062524THE VANGUARD LIBRARY. 1953. In-12. Cartonné. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 245 pages. Manque sur la page de faux-titre.. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
1959RO60154558Penguin Books. 1959. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 250 pages. Texte en anglais. Rousseurs.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
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
193926410N.Y., London, Harper & Brothers, 1939. Orig. full cloth, gilt. No jacket.
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
195317713London Vanguard library 1953 in-12, toile éditeur, jaquette 245pp.
