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1963107531New York: Viking 1963. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Edge wear ad soiling. Closed tear with creasing to front panel's lower edge chip to upper. Closed tears to rear panel's upper and lower edge. Rear flap ill-fitting. Van Wyck Brooks Eliot Hemingway Ellison Frost Huxley Pound; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Viking hardcover
3670GC DOUBLEDAY 1931. GEORGE CUKOR'S COPY WITH BP; NO DJ FIRST AMERICAN EDITION VERY GOOD. 1st Edition. GC, DOUBLEDAY, 1931 unknown books
3670GC DOUBLEDAY 1931. GEORGE CUKOR'S COPY WITH BP; NO DJ FIRST AMERICAN EDITION VERY GOOD. 1st Edition. GC, DOUBLEDAY, 1931 unknown
2009Q-1566567696Interlink Pub Group 2009-06-03. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Interlink Pub Group paperback
0852363028.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1248538056.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
191558979New York and London: D. Appleton and Company 1915. Popular Uniform Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 19 x 13 cm. 12mo. Thirteen volume set. Bound in red pebbled boards with tan spine labels. Gilt top foredge. Consists of 9 volumes of his essays with the titles: "Methods and Results" "Darwinana" "Science and Education" "Science and Hebrew Tradition" "Science and Christian Tradition" "Hume with Helps to the Study of Berkeley" "Man's Place in Nature" "Discourses Biological and Geological" "Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays". The essays state that they are the "Authorized Edition". Four additional works are titled "An introduction to the Study of Zoology Illustrated by the Crayfish" "A Manual of the Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals" "A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals" and "Lay Sermons Addresses and Reviews". The spine labels show some toning and "Lay Sermons" shows some fading to the front boards. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1940121782Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin 1940. Signed limited edition one of 100 numbered examples. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Aldous Huxley. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. This is Huxley's smallest limited edition rare and desirable. An argument as timely as it is timeless Aldous Huxley's Words and Their Meanings argues the significance and power of words. A less well-known work originally published by The Ward Ritchie Press in 1940 Huxley's essay arrived at the end of the Great Depression and coincided with U.S. entry into WWII a time when global relations were heavily impacted by the craft and manipulation of language. Words and Their Meanings was selected as one of the Western Books of 1940. Jake Zeitlin hardcover books
1939125456.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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2019x-1939125456Boydell and Brewer 2019. Hardcover. New. 40 pages. 9.29x6.30x0.39 inches. Boydell and Brewer hardcover
19406055Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin 1940. Limited Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Alvin Lustig. 8vo. Pp. 28. Lustig decorations in red on the title and p. 7. Light gray laid paper-covered boards Lustig illustration printed in red and dark gray on the front board titles in dark gray on the spine: boards and leaves a tad age-toned. In the Lustig illustrated dust jacket printed red and dark gray on light gray laid paper: Spine sunned age-toned short closed tears at the spine head and top edge. Please see photos. Signed by Huxley beneath the colophon. One of "100 copies specially printed for Jake Zeitlin May 1940" at the Ward Ritchie Press. Addressed to educators an essay on the moral discipline of language use. Lustig's design evoking facets or folds was created with letterpress decorations. In Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig authors Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger cite the "stark juxtaposition of the author's signature isolated for greater effect and an abstract configuration of shapes referring to the inherent complexities found in systems of writing and their organizational syntax."<p>Referenced on pp. 36 and 40 in Born Modern The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig by Heller and Cohen-Lustig. Dust jacket preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.</p> . Jake Zeitlin hardcover
194010864CA: Ward Ritchie Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket; Decorative paper over boards new blk . cloth spine toned cover and slightly to endsheets; owners name on fep; no . additional publication dates noted; No other marks or writing clean tight . binding; NOT ex-library. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Has authors facsimile signature on title page ; ; 28 pages . Ward Ritchie Press hardcover
19542092902140307527Mikasa shobo 1954. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Mikasa shobo paperback
960831964: William Morrow & Company New York. First edition of Huxley's authoritative report on the rapidly changing political climate of post-colonial East Africa. Octavo original half cloth illustrated with maps and drawings by Jonathan Kingdon. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page "For Joe Ferrier with my best wished Elspeth Huxley." Laid in is the original typed transmittal letter an autograph card and photograph of Huxley; all three signed by her to Ferrier. The recipient Joe Ferrier was a lifelong fan and pen pal of Huxley's. They often exchanged letters books and article clippings between England and the United States. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Harsh-Finegold. Huxley states in the present volume: "Writing about modern Africa is like trying to sketch a galloping horse that is out of sight before you have sharpened your pencil. But it is just because so much is happening - because the scene sparkles with new hopes and plans because nothing is static and nothing seems impossible.'for in truth' as Winston Churchill wrote in 1907 'the problems of East Africa are the problems of the world.'" William Morrow & Company hardcover books
960831964: William Morrow & Company New York. First edition of Huxley's authoritative report on the rapidly changing political climate of post-colonial East Africa. Octavo original half cloth illustrated with maps and drawings by Jonathan Kingdon. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page "For Joe Ferrier with my best wished Elspeth Huxley." Laid in is the original typed transmittal letter an autograph card and photograph of Huxley; all three signed by her to Ferrier. The recipient Joe Ferrier was a lifelong fan and pen pal of Huxley’s. They often exchanged letters books and article clippings between England and the United States. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Harsh-Finegold. Huxley states in the present volume: "Writing about modern Africa is like trying to sketch a galloping horse that is out of sight before you have sharpened your pencil. But it is just because so much is happening - because the scene sparkles with new hopes and plans because nothing is static and nothing seems impossible.'for in truth' as Winston Churchill wrote in 1907 'the problems of East Africa are the problems of the world.' William Morrow & Company hardcover
3756851273.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
199451112London: André Deutsch 1994. First edition. xiii 158 pp w/index. Fine in full red cloth and publisher’s white slipcase. No dust jacket as issued. Erratum slip present. Color reproductions of 24 items. One of 900 copies. Golding contributes a foreword to this work. London: André Deutsch hardcover books
1963123600New York 1963. hardcover. Profusely Illus. 8vo cloth d.w. New York 1963.<br/><br/> unknown books
1963RO60113301Collins. 1963. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 254 pages. Illustré de nombreuses photos en noir et blanc hors texte. Jaquette abîmée.. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
1963D20710New York: Harper and Row 1963. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Tan cloth spine rubbed. Introduction and Postscript by Julian Huxley. Black and white photographs throughout. Inscribed and signed by the author to Esmond and Chryssee. Esmond and Chryssee are Esmond Bradley Martin and his wife Chryssee. American born conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin and his wife had settled in Kenya where Martin courageously fought for many years on behalf of the elephant and the rhinoceros and the illegal trading of ivory and rhinoceros horns. He was murdered in his home in 2017 a tragic and still unsolved event possibly related to his anti-poaching efforts. <br/><br/> Harper and Row hardcover
1013865057.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2 vols., 8vo., Third Impression thus, with 2 portrait frontispieces, map in the text and 4 large folding maps; green cloth, gilt backs, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly age-marked dustwrapper. The set comprises: Vol. I: 1870-1914; Vol. II: 1914-1931. Huxley's first published work is a classic of Kenyan, indeed of East African, history. First issued by Macmillan in 1935, it was an immediate success - the 'Kenya Weekly News' urged its readers to buy the book 'even though it costs the equivalent of 8 sacks of maize'. It was re-issued by Chatto & Windus in 1953 and then again in 1968 with an important new Preface. This is the third impression thus. SCARCE IN ANY IMPRESSION, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. See Cross & Perkin A1(d).
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 2 portrait frontispieces, 22 plates, a map in the text and 4 large folding maps; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, backs with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt tops, hand-made endpapers, ribbon markers, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. and map in the text and 4 large folding maps; green cloth, gilt backs, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly age-marked dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER HOLOGRAPH SIGNATURE AND INSCRIPTION ON TITLES, AND LONG A.L.s TO THE RECIPIENT IN POCKET AT END OF FIRST VOLUME. With 4pp publisher's catalogue at end of first volume. The set comprises: Vol. I: 1870-1914; Vol. II: 1914-1931. Huxley's first published work is a classic of Kenyan, indeed of East African, history. It was an immediate success - the 'Kenya Weekly News' urged its readers to buy the book 'even though it costs the equivalent of 8 sacks of maize'. PRESENTATION COPIES ARE EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Cross & Perkin A1(a).
