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1989WRCLIT57051New York: Harper & Row 1989. xviii24582pp. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Frontis portrait. Black & white photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. First U.S. edition. Fine in a lightly worn pictorial dust jacket with minor wear to spine ends. Publisher's promotional material and photo laid in. Harper & Row hardcover books
199433597London: Michael Joseph 1994. Michael Joseph unknown books
198259947NY:: Universe Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 0876633777 . First American edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Universe Books, hardcover books
1997AB1051Reading Mass.:: Addison-Wesley 1997. 1997. Second printing. 8vo. xx 820 pp. Illus. index. Cloth-backed boards dust-jacket. Ownership blind-embossed of Alan S. Bishop on title. Very good. ISBN: 10: 0201959879 Adrian J. Desmond is a British historian of science known for a biography of Charles Darwin which he co-wrote with James R. Moore and publications on the history of evolutionary theory. Desmond studied physiology paleontology and history of science at University College London and Harvard University under Stephen Jay Gould. Addison-Wesley, 1997. hardcover books
1962262426Ragusa Italy: La Fiaccola 1962. Pamphlet. 16p. stapled wraps 5x7 inches lightly toned small stain on front wrap else very good condition. Text in Italian. At head of title: 1 "Credo" di non credienti. "Collana Anteo" Opuscoletti di Propaganda atea antireligiosa e anticlericale; No. 4. La Fiaccola unknown books
1999WRCLIT33347New York: St. Martin's 1999. Glossy pictorial wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first U.S. edition. Originally written as a screen story. A fine copy. St. Martin's unknown books
199844314NY: St. Martin's 1998. First printing. 12mo pp. xii 141. With an introduction by Laura Archera Huxley. A nice copy in dj. A fable. St. Martin's unknown books
1998245632New York: St. Martin's Press 1998. Hardcover. xii 141p. 5.25x7.25 inches fine first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Previously unpublished fantasy about a California rancher who discovers he has the power to heal which leads him to a church in Los Angeles. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
1998708039NY: St. Martin's Press. 1998. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
1926JC10712London: Chatto and Windus 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Blue cloth gilt-stamped lettering on spine; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 8 291 5 ads plus frontispiece and 13 plates. Spine tips and corners gently bumped; edges of boards just a little tanned; ownership signature on FFEP. Dust jacket chipped along the edges; two large tears down front panel. On India Burma Malaya the Pacific and America. <br/><br/> Chatto and Windus hardcover books
1926291534New York.: George H. Doran. 1926. 1st Edition. Quarter red cloth over patterned boards. Good cover extremities worn pages slightly toned complete and unmarked. 22.5x14.5 cm. Huxley’s travels to India Burma Malaya the Pacificand America. weight: 1.3 lb. 12 photo illustrated plates. George H. Doran. hardcover books
19262290434Chatto & Windus 1926. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Lacks jacket. Spine faded. 1926 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 291 5 pp. 8vo. A travelogue by the author of Brave New World. "The author recounts his experiences traveling through six countries and offers his observations on their people cultures and customs." Chapters include: India and Burma; Malaya; The Pacific; America. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
09139Meriden CT 1978: Gotham Book Mart. Fine. Octavo 14 pages stiff green wrappers with paper label on front panel. One of 150 copies; a facsimile edition of the Holywell Press edition of 1917. As issued without duat jacket. A fine copy internally clean and bright. <br/><br/> Gotham Book Mart unknown books
195247727Great Britain: Issued for Private Circulation. "Printed Letterpress with Illustrations in Collotype by The Chiswick Press in Great Britain" 1952. Limited Edition. "90 Copies Only of this Edition have been Printed for Private Circulation This is Copy No. 24. cf. Bromer B79. Light green paper wrappers sewn with white thread. Printed in black with a decorative rule to upper wrapper and title page. Full page reproduction to last five leaves. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Age toning to wrappers some rubbing and chipping to edges especially corners. Otherwise a nice bright copy. Unpaginated though 20 pages. Five collotype reproductions. 11" x 8" <br/><br/>"Permission for the reproduction of the corrected proofs is by the courtesy of Miss Harriett Weaver and the James Joyce Foundation." Rare in the trade. Issued for Private Circulation. "Printed Letterpress with Illustrations in Collotype by The Chiswick Press in Great Britain unknown books
1945239678London: Watts & Co 1945. Pamphlet. 32p. wraps slightly soiled minor creasing else good condition 5x7 inches. Watts & Co unknown books
195718451Munchen: R. Piper & Co 1957. Reprint. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 8vo. Blue cloth with orange stamped titles in original printed dust jacket. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Some edgewear to jacket small chips and tears to spine at head and tail light sunning to spine. Interior bright and clean throughout. Binding tight. 509pp. <br/><br/>POINT COUNTER POINT in a charming German edition. Vol. Band 33 in the Die Bucher der Neunzehn series; first published by R. Piper & Co. Verlag in 1951. A handsome and serviceable copy. R. Piper & Co hardcover books
1984Embry 146265Amaryllis Press 1984 First edition. Owner's inked name and date else fine in fine dust jacket in mylar. Color photos. Amaryllis Press 1984 First edition. unknown books
187163335New York: D. Appleton & Company 90 92 & 94 Grand Street 1871. First American edition. 20cm. xi 378pp. 6 ads. Rust colored embossed pebbled cloth with gilt stamped spine. Period ownership signature on flyleaf. Near fine. <br/><br/> D. Appleton & Company, 90, 92 & 94 Grand Street hardcover books
188847911NY: Appleton 1888. First American edn. 8vo pp. xi 378. Brown cloth stamped in black and gilt. Cover worn front hinge tender o/w VG. Appleton unknown books
189325026New York: D. Appleton 1893. 8vo pp. xi 1 378 6; library pocket on rear pastedown small accession numbers on spine; all else bright and near fine in orig. terracotta cloth stamped in gilt and black. <br/><br/> D. Appleton hardcover books
1987444796Topsfield: Salem House Publishers 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. A little foxing on the foredge else fine in fine dustwrapper. Salem House Publishers hardcover books
19261320910London: Chatto & Windus 1926. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo; G- Hardcover; Faded red spine with Black text; Boards strong open tear along head edge of spine sunning to spine bumping and rubbing to corners open tear along spine fading/color bleeding to both covers; Textblock has foxing throughout textblock previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown staining to front and rear endpapers black marks on page 80 black mark on reverse of rear endpaper; 80 pp. 1320910. FP New Rockville Stock. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1929WN3583Garden City N.Y.: Doubleday Doran & Company 1929. Number 222 of 361 copies signed by Huxley beneath the limitation. Some sunning on spine and on cover edges. Black morocco titling piece gilt a little chipped. . Signed by Author. Limited/Numbered. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Eric Gill. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Doubleday, Doran & Company Hardcover books
1920WRCLIT33249London: Chatto & Windus 1920. Cloth paper spine label. First edition. Offsetting to endsheets cloth rubbed and a bit soiled spine sunned but a good internally very good copy lacking the uncommon jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1918S9148London:: John Murray 1918. 1918. Two volumes. 8vo. x 2 546; vi 569 pp. Frontis. Blue cloth gilt-stamped cover ornaments gilt-stamped spine titles; recased new endpapers. Fine. First edition first printing. This two-volume is the first full-length biography of Hooker written and edited by Leonard Huxley with the assistance of Hooker's widow Lady Hyacinth Hooker. Hooker 1817-1911 British botanist was arguably the most important botanical figure of the nineteenth century. A traveler and plant-collector he was one of Charles Darwin's closest friends and eventually succeeding his father to became director of Britain's Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in 1865. Hooker was chief botanist 1839-1843 teaming with Dr. David Lyall of the Antarctic voyage on the discovery ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror the consort to Erebus; the Terror was commanded by Crozier under the command of Sir James Clark Ross visiting Madeira and the Cape of South Africa. During the voyage he also served as assistant surgeon on the Erebus. In 1848-51 he journeyed at Nepal and India collecting many specimens preserved at Kew Gardens. See: W. B. Turrill Joseph Dalton Hooker. Botanist Explorer and Administrator London 1963. John Murray, 1918. hardcover books