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193211121Heinemann 1932. 1st Edition. . Book Book Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Heinemann 1932. 1st Edition . Very Good/Very Good. Signature of Lindeth Vasey to ffe. Book in VG condition in a VG dust-jacket with some wear and rubbing. Old sellotape now removed strengthening to the inside of the jacket edges has leeched through a little to the outer edges. Illustrated. 889pp. Will incur extra overseas postage; please enquire for rates. Heinemann hardcover
193200281274London and New York: William Heinemann Ltd. / the Viking Press 1932 Tan Full Parchment Paper boards with black Phoenix and black lettering on spine. # 312 of 525 limited edition. 889 pgs index. Some light soiling to to covers and foredge. A open tear across top edge of rear board lacks slip case. ow/ nice copy of scarce first issue. First edition- First Printing. Original Stiff Paper. Very Good. William Heinemann, Ltd. / the Viking Press paperback
193263867London: William Heinemann Ltd 1932. First Edition. First Impression trade issue one of 10500 copies. Octavo 23.5cm. Brown cloth with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xxxvi8893pp with portrait frontispiece and 17 plates of illustrations. Lightly rubbed at edges slight foxing and dustiness to edges of textblock foxing to endleaves but contents clean: Very Good or better. Jacket unclipped priced 21/- net rubbed and dustsoiled with short tears and chips at folds: just Very Good. <br /> <br /> A lengthy selection of Lawrence's correspondence edited and with an introduction by Aldous Huxley. ROBERTS A61b. 63867. William Heinemann Ltd unknown
193212442London: William Heinemann Ltd 1932. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. Original Wraps. Previously owned by Oliver Sacks. A lengthy selection of Lawrence's correspondence edited and with an introduction by Aldous Huxley. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Moderate shelf wear toning at textblock edge cracking at lower spine outer and verso and through gutter else intact upper split and bumped corners else tight bright and unmarred. Lacking dj. Brown cloth with titling and decorative elements. 8vo. xxxvi 889 3pp. with portrait frontispiece and 17 plates of illus b/w color. William Heinemann Ltd unknown
1932010291London: William Heinemann Ltd 1932. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Large Thick Octavo. xxxiv 889 pp 18 unpaginated b&w plates. Indexe 6.1" x 9.25" brown clothed boards gilt letters & design in unclipped DJ with acetate protector. Light aging spots on a few pages and plates else Bindingtight pages clean unmerked. Boards with lower forecorners bumped esp fr. DJ unclipped with slight age-toned spine minor edgewear. In polyester protector. Letters to many people - famous and not-so famous. . William Heinemann Ltd Hardcover
1932LCB64868London: William Heinemann Ltd. . 1932. First Edition; First Impression. Original cloth boards. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Dust-jacket complete but browned with some creases & small closed tear on rear top corner >1cm . Book corners head & tail of spine gently bumped some small scuffs. Very mild foxing to end-papers. Some small scrapes to fore-edge. ; Original brown cloth boards with gilt lettering & phoenix blind-stamp on cover & spine. Publisher's device embossed on rear RH corner cover. Original illustrated dust-jacket with phoenix motif reapeated in red ink. Photograph plates 18. A revealing selection of D. H. Lawrence’s letters chosen & introduced by Aldous Huxley. Candid passionate & incisive they offer a vivid portrait of Lawrence’s restless mind & the turbulent world that shaped his art. ; 23.5 cm x 16.8 cm x 4.4 cm; xxxiv889 pages . William Heinemann Ltd. hardcover
193255816London and New York: William Heinemann Ltd. and the Viking Press 1932. Special edition limited to 525 copies this copy #456; 8vo pp. 2 xxxiv 2 889 3; printed on onionskin paper and bound in Japanese vellum title printed in black on spine vignette on upper cover; vellum split on spine very good. William Heinemann, Ltd. and the Viking Press unknown
193254908London and New York: William Heinemann Ltd. and The Viking Press Inc. 1932. 8vo. This is copy no. 267 of an edition limited to 525 copies on India paper. xxxiv 889 pp. Full vellum with decorative device in black to front board & black lettering to spine. Yapp edges. In the original slipcase with paper label onlay. Area of loss to the lettering on the spine. Slipcase slightly rubbed and in VG condition. The vellum boards are clean. No ownership names. Internally very clean. . Very Good. Full Vellum. Limited Numbered Edition. 1932. William Heinemann, Ltd. and The Viking Press, Inc. 1932 hardcover
1932020914Heinemann/Viking Press 1932. First Edition . Hard Cover in Slipcase. Very Good. Limited edition in slipcase no. 87 of 525 printed copies. Book is solidly bound and unmarked; cream-colored vellum boards feature mild amount of smudging. One internal page is torn paper quality is very fine. Slipcase is very solid overall though lacking a bottom panel. <br/> <br/> Heinemann/Viking Press hardcover
1932167153London: William Heinemann LTD 1932. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Very good or better in good plus dustwrapper. Chips and rubs on dustwrapper edges spine and corners Ink name on front free endpaper rubs on cloth edges corners and spine sticker on front free endpaper. William Heinemann LTD hardcover
1929149534London: Privately printed by The Curwen Press for H.R.H. The Prince of Wales 1929. First and limited deluxe edition of the monumental Legion Book; one of only one hundred numbered copies printed for private distribution by the Prince of Wales and signed by a remarkable array of British writers and artists as well as four prime ministers. Quarto original publisher's full deluxe pigskin over boards elaborately decorated in blind and gilt top edge gilt tissue-guarded color frontispiece engraved title-page vignette illustrated with 16 captioned tissued-guarded plates in various techniques some signed by the artist and 32 collotypes. One of one hundred numbered copies printed for private distribution by the Prince of Wales and with five pages signed by each of the 89 contributing writers and illustrators as well as four prime ministers three British Prime Ministers: David Lloyd George Stanley Baldwin and Ramsay MacDonald and French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau including: Winston Churchill who was not yet a Prime Minister Rudyard Kipling P.G. Wodehouse Eric Gill Stanley Spencer Charles Ricketts W. Heath Robinson Laura Knight William Nicholson Paul Nash David Low Rebecca West John Lavery Max Beerbohm Vita Sackville-West Hilaire Belloc Mark Gertler Edith Sitwell Jacob Epstein W.H. Davies and Aldous Huxley among others. This is number 84. The Legion Book was created at the request of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales—who would later become King Edward VIII and following his abdication the Duke of Windsor—as a fundraising initiative for the British Legion. All profits from its sales were intended to support the organization. The book features contributions from 85 distinguished British writers and artists including Winston Churchill Rudyard Kipling P.G. Wodehouse Aldous Huxley Vita Sackville-West G.K. Chesterton Hilaire Belloc Augustus John Eric Kennington and John Nash. It was compiled and edited by James Humphrey Cotton Minchin 1894–1966 a veteran who served with the Cameronians and the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. While the trade version saw several reprints a special edition of 600 numbered copies was also produced. Of these 500 bore the editor’s signature but “the first 100 were reserved for H.R.H. the Prince of Wales sponsor of the volume in his gift.†According to the note at the conclusion of the Table of Contents “Five pages of contributors’ signatures appear after the Dedication with additional signed pages opposite Collotype No. 3 and Collotype No. 20.†Every contributor signed the book with the sole exception of John Singer Sargent who died in 1925 before the project was completed. In near fine condition with toning to the extremities of the front panel and front hinge. Housed in the original publisher's custom folding cloth clamshell box. An exceptional example of this rare signed limited edition. Formed in the aftermath of a war that had shattered a generation the Royal British Legion emerged in May 1921 as a unified voice for the countless veterans left wounded—physically mentally and economically—by the First World War. The staggering cost of the conflict with nearly 3.2 million British Empire casualties exposed the inadequacy of postwar support. A fully disabled veteran received just 30 shillings a week and any claim had to be made within seven years of discharge. In response to such injustice several ex-servicemen’s groups came together to create the Legion not merely as a charity but as an advocate for those who had borne the brunt of industrialized warfare. From its inception the Legion fought for fair pensions better employment opportunities and meaningful support for both former service members and their families—laying the groundwork for a broader movement of remembrance welfare and national responsibility that continues to this day. Privately printed by The Curwen Press for H.R.H. The Prince of Wales hardcover
196449921New York: William Morrow & Company 1964. First printing. Very good plus in very good plus jacket. First US edition of Huxley's satirical suspense novel set in the fictional British East African Protectorate of Hapana. 8'' x 5.5''. Original quarter blue cloth with yellow boards. In original unclipped $3.95 dust jacket. Light edgewear and minor soil to boards scattered foxing to fore-edge. Faint toning to jacket edges small chip to front panel with tape repair to verso. Bright. William Morrow & Company unknown
1968132511110066Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co 1968. Hardcover. Good. 7x10x0. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co hardcover
19659492682George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1965. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item950grams ISBN: George Allen & Unwin Ltd hardcover
1961500London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1961. First edition stated. <br /><br /><b>HUMANISM AND EVOLUTION--SIGNED FIRST EDITION COLLECTION OF ESSAYS BY 20TH CENTURY LUMINARIES ASSEMBLED BY JULIAN HUXLEY.</b> <br /><br />9 1/2 inches tall hardcover black cloth binding with publisher's gilt logo to cover gilt title to spine decorative endpapers signed on title page "Julian Huxley/ Cleveland/ May 10 1962" 432 pp. Faint water stain bottom edge of endpapers otherwise very good no dust jacket in archival mylar cover. <br /><br /><b>FROM PREFACE</b>: "This book is an attempt to present Humanism as a comprehensive system of ideas. It is no sudden venture but the natural outcome of a long process of gestation and development begun more than half a century ago in an attempt to reconcile or integrate various aspects of my life- my biological training my twin loves of nature and poetry my wrestlings with the problems of morality and belief and continued in the effort to extend the concept of evolution over the widest possible range of phenomena. The gist of the book can be summed up in a few sentences. There have been two critical points in the past of evolution points at which the process transcended itself by passing from an old state to a fresh one with quite new properties. The first was marked by the passage from the inorganic phase to the biological the second by that from the biological to the psychosocial. Now we are on the threshold of a third. As the bubbles in a cauldron on the boil mark the onset of the critical passage of water from the liquid to the gaseous state so the ebullition of humanist ideas in the cauldron of present-day thought marks the onset of the passage from the psychosocial to the consciously purposive phase of evolution. A prerequisite for the safe passage of this critical threshold and for the efficient working of the evolutionary process in its new self-conscious State will be the emergence of a new comprehensive pattern or system of ideas beliefs and guiding principles which are of general validity for the entire human community. I hope that this book will help in indicating the outline of that pattern and in laying foundations on which that system can later be erected." <br />0<br /><b>SIR JULIAN HUXLEY </b>1887 - 1975 was an English evolutionary biologist eugenicist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis. He was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London 1935-1942 the first Director of UNESCO a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund and the first President of the British Humanist Association. <br /><br /><b>WALTER RUSSELL BRAIN </b>1895 - 1966 was a British neurologist. He was principal author of the standard work of neurology Brain's Diseases of the Nervous System and longtime editor of the homonymous neurological medical journal titled Brain. He is also eponymised with "Brain's reflex" a reflex exhibited by humans when assuming the quadrupedian position. <br /><br /><b>CONRAD HAL WADDINGTON </b>1905 - 1975 was a British developmental biologist paleontologist geneticist embryologist and philosopher who laid the foundations for systems biology. He had wide interests that included poetry and painting as well as left-wing political leanings. In his book The Scientific Attitude 1941 he touched on political topics such as central planning and praised marxism as a "profound scientific philosophy". <br /><br /><b>JACOB BRONOWSKI </b>1908 - 1974 was a British mathematician biologist historian of science theatre author poet and inventor. He is best remembered as the presenter and writer of the 1973 BBC television documentary series The Ascent of Man and the accompanying book. <br /><br /><b>EDWARD FRANCIS WILLIAMS </b>1903 - 1970 was a British newspaper editor. He worked on the Bootle Times and then the Liverpool Courier and was convinced of socialism by the conditions he saw. He then moved to London to take up a post as a financial journalist on the Evening Standard but soon moved to the Daily Herald a paper with views closer to his own. In 1936 he accepted the editorship of the Daily Herald serving until 1940. In 1941 he became Controller of Press Censorship and News at the Ministry of Information and for his work he was awarded a CBE in 1945. He then became the public relations advisor to Labour Party Prime Minister Clement Attlee for two years. From 1951 to 1952 he was a governor of the BBC. Williams served as Regents' Professor at the University of California Berkeley in 1961 and Kemper Knapp Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin from 1967 until his death. <br /><br /><b>MORRIS GINSGERG </b>1889 - 1970 was a British sociologist who played a key role in the development of the discipline. He served as editor of The Sociological Review in the 1930s and later became the founding chairman of the British Sociological Association in 1951 and its first President 1955-1957. He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1942 to 1943 and helped draft the UNESCO 1950 statement titled <i>The Race Question</i>. <br /><br /><b>HAROLD JOHN BLACKHAM </b>1903 - 2009 was a leading British humanist philosopher writer and educationalist. He has been described as the "progenitor of modern humanism in Britain". Joining the Ethical Union Blackham drew the organisation further away from religious forms and played an important part in its formation into the British Humanist Association becoming the BHA's first Executive Director in 1963. He was also a founding member of the International Humanist and Ethical Union IHEU IHEU secretary 1952-1966 and received the IHEU's International Humanist Award in 1974 and the Special Award for Service to World Humanism in 1978. In addition he was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto. His book Six Existentialist Thinkers became a popular university textbook. <br /><br /><b>ERIK HOMBURGER ERIKSON </b>1902 - 1994 was a German-born American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on psychosocial development of human beings. He may be most famous for coining the phrase identity crisis. His son Kai T. Erikson is a noted American sociologist. Although Erikson lacked even a bachelor's degree he served as a professor at prominent institutions such as Harvard and Yale. Erikson is also credited with being one of the originators of Ego psychology which stressed the role of the ego as being more than a servant of the id. According to Erikson the environment in which a child lived was crucial to providing growth adjustment a source of self-awareness and identity. <br /><br /><b>FRANCIS HUXLEY </b>1923 - 2016. A botanist he was the son of the biologist Sir Julian Sorell Huxley nephew of the writer Aldous Huxley half-nephew of the Nobel laureate Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley grandson of the writer Leonard Huxley and great-grandson of "Darwin's bulldog" Thomas Henry Huxley and the literary professor Thomas Arnold the Younger. He traveled widely particularly in the Americas as an anthropologist working for various universities and institutions. He undertook major field work among a tribe of Brazilian Indians exploring 17000 miles of the Amazon basin and studying its native populations; he did early work with Humphrey Osmond in Canada has reported on the use of psychedelic snuff by Yanomamo Indians and documented the early use of LSD in the West and in the third world. <br /><br /><b>MORTON HUNT </b>1920-2016 was a science writer who has notably written for The New Yorker The New York Times Magazine and Harper's. Educated at Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania he worked as a freelance writer from 1949 specializing in the social and behavioral sciences; he wrote at least 18 books and more than 450 articles. <br /><br /><b>WILLIAM GRAHAM HOLFORD </b>1907 - 1975 was a British architect and town planner. Holford was heavily involved with the development of post-World War II British town planning and was largely responsible for drafting the Town and Country Planning Act 1947. <br /><br /><b>SIR MICHAEL KEMP TIPPETT </b>1905 - 1998 was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War. In his lifetime he was sometimes ranked with his contemporary Benjamin Britten as one of the leading British composers of the 20th century. Among his best-known works are the oratorio A Child of Our Time the orchestral Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli and the opera The Midsummer Marriage. Having briefly embraced communism in the 1930s Tippett avoided identifying with any political party. A pacifist after 1940 he was imprisoned in 1943 for refusing to carry out war-related duties required by his military exemption. <br /><br /><b>SIR STEPHEN HAROLD SPENDER </b>1909 - 1995 was an English poet novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work. He was appointed the seventeenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the United States Library of Congress in 1965. In 1936 he became a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Harry Pollitt head of the CPGB invited him to write for the Daily Worker on the Moscow Trials. In 1937 during the Spanish civil war they sent him to Spain. His mission was to observe and report on the Soviet ship Komsomol which had sunk while carrying Soviet weapons to the Second Spanish Republic. <br /><br /><b>OLIVER LESLIE REISER </b>1895 - 1974 was an American philosopher known for his pseudoscientific views on evolution. Reiser is most well known in humanist groups because of his book Promise of Scientific Humanism 1940. He also founded the International Committee on Scientific Humanism in the 1950s. Reiser had used the term "Cosmic humanism" influenced by the work of Albert Einstein to define what he termed a pantheist philosophy of science. The main belief of Reiser was that geomagnetic forces were directing evolution of species based on a very specific complex cyclical process. He also advocated the view that a "memory field" existed around the earth which could also influence the evolution of organisms he called this field the "psychosphere". <br /><br /><b>PATRICK MEREDITH </b>1904- was a physicist mathematician and psychologist. His liffe-long interests were astronomy and language. <br /><br /><b>HERBERT LIONEL ELVIN </b>1905 - 2005 was an eminent educationist. Elvin was the son of Herbert Henry Elvin General Secretary of the National Union of Clerks and brother of George who became General Secretary of the Association of Cinematograph Television and Allied Technicians. <br /><br /><b>MICHAEL YOUNG </b>1915 - 2002 was a British sociologist social activist and politician who coined the term "meritocracy". Young served under the Labour Party government led by Clement Attlee but left in 1950. He began studying for a PhD at the London School of Economics in 1952. <br /><br /><b>ROBIN MARRIS </b>1924-2012 worked closely with the Labor party and when in 1964 Harold Wilson's incoming government established a Ministry of Overseas Development Robin was recruited to advise its first two ministers Barbara Castle and Anthony Greenwood. Robin was best known to economists for his major contribution to our understanding of corporations. <br /><br /><b>SUDHIR SEN </b>1916-1989. was an economist who specialized in agricultural development and rural electrification in India and on behalf of the United Nations. From 1947 to 1954 Dr. Sen was the chief executive officer of the Damodar Valley Corporation a dam builder in India. From 1956 to 1966 he served as United Nations residential representative in Ghana and Yugoslavia and as a director in the United Nations Development Program. He was also a director of the Great Eastern Shipping Company in Bombay a visiting economics professor of Brown University and the New York correspondent of the Economic Times of India. <br /><br /><b>HARRY KALVEN JR. </b>1914 - 1974 was an American jurist regarded as one of the preeminent legal scholars of the 20th century. He was the Harry A. Bigelow Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Kalven is the coauthor of "The Contemporary Function of the Class Suit" one of the most heavily cited articles in the history of American law and widely considered to be the foundation of the modern class action lawsuit. <br /><br /><b>HANS ZEISEL </b>1905-1992. A sociologist and lawyer Hans Zeisel was a pioneer in social science research and in the empirical study of legal institutions. His most famous works focused on juries capital punishment and survey techniques often ingeniously using what he termed "half a loaf" methods-study designs that were perforce less than ideal but well adapted to cope with the constraints encountered in studying the law in operation. <br /><b><br />BARBARA WOOTTON </b>1897 - 1988 was a British sociologist and criminologist. She was one of the first four life peers appointed under the Life Peerages Act 1958. She was President of the British Sociological Association 1959-1964. Ethically she was a supporter of utilitarianism. She supported an "Incurable Patients Bill" in the 1970s which would have allowed doctor-assisted suicide. Her views on abortion which were pro-life but without any religious basis led her to be removed from her position as Vice-President of the British Humanist Association. <br /><br /><b>ROBERT PLATT </b>1900-1978 was a British physician. His research was on kidney diseases but he is remembered for the 1940-1950s Platt vs. Pickering debate with George White Pickering over the nature of hypertension. Though Platt's view was favored during his lifetime Pickering's view ultimately dominated and is the basis of current understanding and treatment policies. Platt held the salaried position of head of the Central Manchester Health Authority and he later 1957-1962 became the president of the Royal College of Physicians. <br /><br /><b>G. COLIN L. BERTRAM </b>1911-2001 father or modern sirenology--published on Arctic and Antarctic seals. <br /><br /><b>EDWARD MAX NICHOLSON </b>1904 - 2003 was a pioneering environmentalist ornithologist and internationalist and a founder of the World Wildlife Fund. In 1947-1948 with the then director general of the United Nations' scientific and education organisation UNESCO Julian Huxley he was involved in forming the International Union for the Protection of Nature IUPN now International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN. <br /><b><br />HERMANN JOSEPH MULLER </b>1890 - 1967 was an American geneticist educator and Nobel laureate best known for his work on the physiological and genetic effects of radiation X-ray mutagenesis as well as his outspoken political beliefs. Muller frequently warned of the long-term dangers of radioactive fallout from nuclear war and nuclear testing helping to raise public awareness in this area. <br /><br /><b>ALDOUS LEONARD HUXLEY </b>1894 - 1963 was an English writer philosopher and a prominent member of the Huxley family. He was best known for his novels including Brave New World and for non-fiction books such as The Doors of Perception which recalls experiences when taking a psychedelic drug and a wide-ranging output of essays. Huxley was a humanist pacifist and satirist. By the end of his life Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time. George Allen & Unwin Ltd. hardcover
1978mon0000991979Chatto & Windus 1978. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. First edition First printing Pages clean and bright Binding firm Light wear to edges Dust jacket unclipped Includes removable plastic wrapper. Chatto & Windus hardcover
19773988344Chatto & Windus 1977. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item550grams ISBN:0701121432 Chatto & Windus hardcover
1977Q-0060120916Harper & Row 1977-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Harper & Row hardcover
1963C217842Seattle: University of Washington Press 1963. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. ii 89pp. Original quarter black cloth over green boards with gilt spine titles. Light edge wear otherwise very good indeed in a torn and slightly edge chipped good dust jacket. Name to endpaper. The John Danz Lectures. University of Washington Press, hardcover
193215608Garden City NJ: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1932. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good with a Good dust jacket. Chips and tears toning and sunning to jacket. Toning to end papers. No markings to text. 8vo 7 3/4"h x 5 1/2"w. First Edition is stated. Scarce in trade. Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc hardcover
1935015289London: Cassell & Company 1935 12mo. original red cloth gilt endpapers a little offset edges slightly flecked trifling wear in dustwrapper a little rubbed tiny rems. of label to spine; pp. x 260 last blank with illustrations. A very good copy. First Thus. Hard Cover. VG/VG. Illus. by L.R.Brightwell. Cassell & Company hardcover
19702111902154602486Fuji shubbansha 1970. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Fuji shubbansha paperback