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19481321179New York: Harper & Brothers 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; VG- Hardcover w/ G Dustjacket; Gold spine with Black and Blue text; Dustjacket has moderate edgewear some shelfwear closed tear along front joint closed tear along head edge of rear cover small closed tear along tail edge of rear cover otherwise clean; Boards strong slight cocking to spine some edgewear some shelfwear bumping to corners otherwise clean; Textblock has staining to front endpaper and pastedown some age toning otherwise clean; 205 pp; F-X Code on Copyright Page. 1321179. FP New Rockville Stock. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
194886459New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1948. Octavo pp. 1-6 1-205 206: blank 207: colophon 208-210: blank note: last leaf is a blank publisher's blue cloth Harper's device stamped in light blue on front panel spine panel stamped in light blue and gold fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. "After a comprehensive atomic bomb catastrophe man undergoes biological changes. Love is extinct only collective seasonal sexual intercourse remains. The place of traditional religion has been taken by a hysterical worship of Belial the god of evil." - Gerber Utopian Fantasy 1973 pp. 156-57. ". scalpel-like satirical account of twentieth-century humans' failure to understand their nature. Lesser writers would not handle this scenario and theme intelligently until the 1960's." - Anatomy of Wonder 1995 3-97. "Bleak and timely." - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction p. 17. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-557. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 235. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I pp. 78-83. Baird and Greenwood An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1274. Faint narrow insect tracking along lower edge of front cover and upper and lower edges of rear cover else a bright near fine copy in very good gold-foil dust jacket with shelf wear along upper edges and at tail of spine panel and lower corner tips several closed tears at edges some internal tape reinforcements mostly along top edges and clipped price. #30833 Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
19495600London: Chatto & Windus 1949. First Edition. 8vo pp. 153. A nice copy in chipped dj. Eschelbach & Shober 5. A futuristic novel of life after atomic warfare. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1948WRCLIT33235New York: Harper 1948. Cloth. First U.S. edition. Near fine in a bright example of the gold foil jacket that is chipped at the head of the spine and has a crease and some short closed tears at the top of the lower panel. Harper hardcover books
19481329388New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1948. Hardcover. 10mo; pp 205; G-/G-; gilt spine with blue and black text; dust jacket has noticeable soiling to exterior; few chips to edges; cloth has foxing to exterior; some wear to edges; sturdy boards; text block shows some age toning to exterior edges; deckled fore edge; interior unmarked;. 1329388. FP New Rockville Stock. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover books
1949RO60112649Chatto & Windus. 1949. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos frotté, Intérieur acceptable. 153 pages. Tranche en tête verte. Jaquette manquante.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
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.
194953492London: Chatto & Windus 1949. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19.5cm; blue-gray cloth titled in gilt over a blue panel at upper spine; blue topstain; dustjacket; vi1531pp. Tiny stain to upper edge of textblock else a fresh Fine copy. Dustjacket is price-clipped with some pinpoint wear to extremities; very Near Fine. "In 1947 William Tallis writes rejected screenplay of California in 2018 visited by New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition after nuclear holocaust. Situation is neo-medieval church-directed. Message is scalpel-like satirical account of twentieth-century humans' failure to understand their nature" Barron Anatomy of Wonder 3-220. BROMER A62.2; NEGLEY 603; SARGENT p.116. Chatto & Windus unknown books
193051578Gaylordsville: The Slide Mountain Press 1930. First Limited Edition. One of 91 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author this being copy no.29. Quarto 26.75cm; patterned paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip with title label mounted to spine; publisher's pictorial paper-covered slipcase; 16pp with errata slip tipped in before title page correcting the author's misspelled first name. With a single woodcut illustration by O. Macrum opposite Huxley's poem. Presentation copy warmly inscribed by the publishers on the front endpaper: "For Milly and Elizabeth Randall-Mills / with compliments and thanks! / James and Elizabeth Wells / October 27 1936." Some light rubbing and dust-soil to backstrip faint foxing to endpapers and edges of a few leaves else Near Fine lacking the original glassine with a new one supplied. Slipcase is lightly tanned and edgeworn with a few thin cracks 1.25" loss at lower edge and some faint whitish spotting; still Very Good and sound. An elaborate slip of a book produced by James and Hilda Wells's Slide Mountain Press printing a single poem by Huxley which was subsequently published in his 1931 collection The Cicadas and Other Poems. BROMER A25. The Slide Mountain Press unknown books
1963Q-B0007E1KDUTime Incorporated 1963-01-01. Paperback. New. New. Time Incorporated paperback
4 pages of illustrations 278 pages. Slight soiling to covers.
1955Z1174London:: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1955. 1955. 16mo. 399 pp. Plates index. Green cloth gilt-stamped spine title dust-jacket; jacket a bit worn with a small spine corner tear. Very good. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1955). hardcover books
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.
197027235World Publishing Company, Meridian Books Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1970 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback In-8 1 vol. - 404 pages
ria9783752384949_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Reproduction of the original: Aphorisms and Reflections by Henrietta A. Huxley hardcover
B9783752384949Hardback. New. hardcover
19089027070London: Macmillan 1908. Hardcover. Fine. Henrietta A. Huxley's selections from the essays letters and memoirs of T. H. Huxley. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in black morocco with spine elaborately stamped in gilt with five raised bands boards ruled in gilt inner dentelles gilt edges gilt marbled endpapers. 6 x 4 inches. 200 pages. <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover
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