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1944UHUXMAN00efMentor 1944. Very Good. Huxley Julian. Man in the Modern World: An Eminent Scientist Looks at Life Today. New York: Mentor 1944. 199pp. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good. Mentor paperback books
1960UHUXMAN00AFMentor 1960. Very Good. Huxley Julian. Man in the Modern World. Selected Essays. NY: Mentor 1960. 191pp. 12mo. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good. Lightly bumped and rubbed. Former owner's name and date on first page. Mentor paperback books
1956UHUXMAN00jknMentor 1956. Very Good. Huxley Julian. Man in the Modern World. New York: Mentor 1956. 192pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Slight shelf wear. Transparent coating peeling on cover. Mentor paperback books
1951UHUXMAN00HMRMentor 1951. Good. Huxley Julian. Man in the Modern World. New York: Mentor 1951. 16mo. Mass Market. Book condition: Good. Yellowed and rubbed. Front hinge split but holding. Mentor paperback books
1974UHUXLIV00CGMSaturday Review 1974. Fine. Huxley Elspeth. Livingstone: And his African Journeys. NY: Saturday Review 1974. 224pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. Small 4to. Cloth. Book condition: Near fine with lightly bumped edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with lightly bumped edges. Saturday Review hardcover books
1974UHUXLIV00LAWSaturday Review Press 1974. Very Good. Huxley Elspeth. Livingstone and his African Journeys. NY: Saturday Review Press 1974. 224pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with gently bumped edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gently bumped corners and tiny stain on front flap. Saturday Review Press hardcover books
1974UHUXLIV00MELSaturday Review Press 1974. Very Good. Huxley Elspeth. Livingstone and His African Journeys. New York: Saturday Review Press 1974. 224pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed and bumped edges and spine gently rolled. Saturday Review Press hardcover books
1974137946New York: Saturday Review Press 1974. hardcover. very good/very good. Color frontis. portrait. Color & black & white illustrations throughout. 224pp. tall 8vo boards dust wrapper. New York: Saturday Review Press 1974. Very good.<br/><br/> Saturday Review Press unknown books
1961UADALIV00afA Helen and Kurt Wolff Book 1961. Good. Adamson Joy. Living Free: The Story of Elsa and Her Cubs. Huxley Introduction Julian. NY: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book 1961. 161pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Cloth. Book condition: Good with faded spine and perimeter of covers. Gift inscription on front free endsheet. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book hardcover books
3660LONDON CHATTO 1924. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. LONDON, CHATTO, 1924 unknown books
192418727London: Chatto & Windus 1924. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; red top-stain; 340pp. Faint foxing to foredge; mild offsetting to endpapers else a tight Near Fine copy in the printed dustwrapper which is lightly foxed overall slightly heavier on rear panel but unclipped and generally unworn Very Good. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1920WRCLIT20810New York: George H. Doran Co. 1920. Cloth and boards paper label. First edition American issue of the author's first collection of stories bound from the British sheets. Small tasteful bookplate otherwise a very nice copy without dust jacket. George H. Doran Co. hardcover books
190137010New York: Appleton 1901. 2 vols in 1. First American edition. Appleton unknown books
1900RW1129London:: Macmillan 1900. 1900. 2 volumes. 8vo. viii 2 503 5; vi 2 504 4 pp. Frontis. portraits 10 plates index. Maroon gilt-stamped cloth; spine-ends worn joints split. Ownership signature of "Richard Gompertz April 1906" and another "J.M.Mo. Whatram". Good. Mixed state: first edition vol. I reprinted vol. II 1900. T. H. Huxley was next to Darwin perhaps the most important proponent of evolution in the 19th century. His 1860 debate with Samuel Wilberforce was a pivotal moment in a popularization of Darwin's theories. Leonard Huxley his son and biographer was something of a genealogical middleman — although a respected biographer in his own right Leonard was the son of one of the most famous scientists of the 19th century and the father of one of the 20th century's most famous authors Aldous Huxley and a Nobel Prize-winning physiologist Andrew Huxley. EXTRA POSTAGE MAY APPLY. Macmillan, 1900. hardcover books
1900W0912THNew York: D. Appleton and Company 1900. Original brown cloth with with gilt lettering. TEG other edges untrimmed. Books have light shelfwear including some minor flecking on the cloth but are generally clean and good. A very complete work on this leading 19th century British scientist by his son. First American Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. D. Appleton and Company Hardcover books
1902006966New York: D. Appleton and Co. 1902. Both volumes Near Fine lacking the scarce dust jackets top edges gilt prior owner bookplates and name in ink front end pages and paste downs. With SCARCE ALS tipped in at front of Vol. I from Huxley to publisher Kegan Paul in Huxleys' difficult hand on South Kensington Science and Art Department embossed stationery dated Nov. 15 1873 one sheet folded with writing two sides - " Dear Mr. Kegan Paul I remember seeing 's book a long time ago- but I cannot find it in my shelves now and I have such a strong hope that it was returned that I think I may follow ahead on purchasing & my belief to that event is my hope. Ever yours very faithfully T.H. Huxley". Thomas H. Huxley 1825-1895 was a British educator biologist and advocate of elevating science to a higher place in society. He coined the word agnosticism and earned the nickname "Darwin's bulldog" for his earnest defense of Darwin's theory of evolution. Charles Kegan Paul 1828-1902 was a British author and publisher who would later 1880 publish one of Huxley's books. . Later Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. D. Appleton and Co. Hardcover books
19019898New York: D. Appleton & Co 1901. First American edition 2 vols. 8vo pp. xii 539-540; viii 541-542; 12 plates 7 photogravures 1 illus. in the text. A good sound set in original brown cloth t.e.g. <br/><br/> D. Appleton & Co hardcover books
81388hardcover. 2 volumes. illustrated. 8vo brown cloth cloth is quite edgeworn; inner hinges weak uncut edges. N.Y.: Appleton 1900-02.<br/><br/> unknown books
191861372London: John Murray 1918. Second printing August 1918; first published July 1918. 8vo. 2 volumes: x 2 546; vi 2 569 pp. Illustrated from photographs plates portrait plates folding map of Sikkim and Eastern Nepal. "Note: In this second impression various errors and misprints have been corrected and a few more references have been added in the Index and elsewhere." Hooker 1817-1911 "was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century and a founder of geographical botany" Wikipedia. He spent three years in the Himalayas 1847-1851 the first European to collect plants there; in the work offered here eight chapters covering 143 pages relate to Hooker's Himalayan experiences. Fine and scarce in dust jackets. Original blue cloth gilt spine titles printed dust jackets illustrated with a portrait of the young Hooker volume two with a small chip at the base of the spine the spine ends reinforced on the versos. #8458. <br/><br/> John Murray 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
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
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
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
