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199206051scsLondon: Macmillan 1992. Four Volumes. Quarto cloth lviii 815 pp viii 747 pp vii 888 pp. Illus. maps. Former-owner embossed stamps; otherwise Fine. Macmillan, [1992]. Four Volumes. hardcover books
196246332London: Chatto & Windus 1962. First edition of this sequel to Huxley's The Flame Trees of Thika. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Elspeth Huxley on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rosemary Seligman. Uncommon signed. "In this sequel to The Flame of Thika Elspeth Huxley takes up her story after the family returns to Kenya after the First World War. Her family and friends their home and their travels the glorious wildlife and scenery described in rich and loving detail all spring to life in this enchanting book. 'She knows East Africa and she loves it. . . with a critical and understanding sympathy. ' The Times 'What a marvelous writer. . . and what a Kenya it was" Financial Times. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
196295084London: Chatto & Windus 1962. First edition early printing of one of Huxley's best known works. Octavo original half cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half-title page "For Joe Ferrier with gratitude for your interest in my childhood memories - now are half a century old. Elspeth Huxley." Laid in are three typed letters signed by Huxley to Joe Ferrier one of which reads in part "I much appreciate your continuing interest in my writings - as much as I regret the appalling untidiness of this typing. My non-proficiency increases with the years and the typewriter is now nearly as old as I am; a few more years and in this age of word-processors etc.; it may become a valuable antique. With best wishes yours sincerely Elspeth Huxley." The recipient Joe Ferrier was a lifelong pen pal and friend of Huxley's. They often exchanged letters books and article clippings between England and the United States. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rosemary Grimble. Nellie and Major Josceline Grant arrived in Thika in what was then British East Africa in 1912 where they became colonial settlers and established a coffee plantation. Their daughter Elspeth had quite an unconventional childhood which she later wrote about in her best known work The Flame Trees of Thika 1959 which examined how unprepared for rustic life the early British settlers really were. The Mottled Lizard continues the story when the family returns to Kenya after the first world war. Huxley recreates in vivid detail their home native servants hunting expeditions and travels throughout the country. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1962W52667London: Chatto & Windus 1962. Original terra cotta cloth with gilt spine lettering. Edges have some light soiling and boards have minor bowing. Faint offsetting on endpapers from dust jacket flaps. Price clipped dust jacket has a bit of foxing internally. Also soiled on upper edge of rear portion and on rear flap fold. Overall a very suitable copy of the sequel to The Flame Trees of Thika. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Chatto & Windus Hardcover books
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. <br/><br/> William Heinemann, Ltd. and the Viking Press hardcover books
19532304567Wallingford Pennsylvania: Pendle Hill 1953. Signed Copy. Signed Copy. Very Good. Signed by author. Signed by author with inscription "With greetings Nov. '53." Wrappers lightly toned. 1953 Stapled Binding. 40 pp. Foreword by Aldous Huxley. "In a very interesting essay Amiya Chakravarty discusses the Indian philosophy of peace. The great merit of this philosophy consists in the fact that it goes back to first principles. Peace it insists is more than a mere matter of political and economic arrangements. Because man stands on the borderline between the animal and the divine the temporal and the eternal peace on earth possesses a cosmic significance. Every violent extinction of a human life has a transcendent and eternal significance. Moreover the mind of the universe is among other things the peace that passes understanding. Man Pendle Hill unknown books
192918630London: The Fleuron Ltd 1929. First Limited Edition. Octavo. Original brown buckram stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 64pp. Number 30 of 300 hand-numbered copies printed at the Curwen Press. Stencil-colored text illustrations by Albert Rutherston. Darkened at spine and board edges else a tight Near Fine copy in a later custom linen slipcase. The Fleuron Ltd unknown books
1957115745New York: the academy 1957. Pp.675-685 of about 220p. Coated paperstock throughout plain printed journal wraps first edition of this conference paper. Spine panel shows a little light abrasion back wrap a bit of light creasing near the spine. A nice copy. Note that "Meprobamate" was marketed as "Miltown" "This series of papers is the result of a conference on Meprobamate. held by the New York Academy of Sciences Section of Biology and Psychology on October 18 and 19 1956" --Huxley in metaphysical mode doesn't sound like he actually popped any "mepro" went to the conference for the honorarium and a chance to pontificate. We see no other contributor here there are some forty of good or ill repute although Howard F. Hunt's paper "Some effects of meprobamate on conditoned fear and emotional behavior" is unpleasant enough. Hunt first teaches rats fear: "An ordinarily neutral stimulus usually a clicking noise .is presented for several minutes and is then terminated approximately simultaneously with the presentation of one or two painful shocks to the feet delivered through the grill floor of the apparatus. After a few such pairings of stimulii .the conditioned rats normally show a tense crouching or 'freezing' reaction. and usually defecate as well" --and they tend thereupon to lose useful conditionings like how to get a water "reward" by pressing a lever. Reward! so they're kept thirsty. C.I.A. surely tried this one out on people. Hunt's sequence is to then give these rats MEPROBAMATE to relax 'em and see what conditionings re-emerge. Much more exciting than Huxley's noodlings. Another cataloguer notes meprobamate to have been marketed as Miltown an early tranquilizer. the academy unknown books
1938WRCLIT29554London: Chatto & Windus 1938. Decorated boards. First separate edition issued in the Zodiac Book series. Neat early ink ownership inscription otherwise near fine in dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
195539281NY: Harper 1955. First Edition. 8vo pp. 168. VG. Harper unknown books
195511224.2New York: Harper 1955. 1st US edition. Black cloth spine with grey cloth boards. Orange dust jacket. VG bookplate/age-tongin/VG some wear & soiling/spine panel sunned/clipped lower corner to front flap. 168 pp. Sm 8vo. <br/><br/> Harper hardcover books
1955WRCLIT31038New York: Harper 1955. Cloth. First U.S. edition. Very good in price- clipped spine-sunned jacket. Harper hardcover books
1955WRCLIT33183New York: Harper 1955. Cloth. First U.S. edition. A very nice copy in slightly tanned dust jacket. Harper hardcover books
1955WRCLIT29416London: Chatto & Windus 1955. Cloth. First British edition. Top edge dusty else about fine in dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1955WRCLIT19431London: Chatto & Windus 1955. Cloth. First British edition. Very good in dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1955000033New York: Harper and Brothers 1955. Dust jacket spine sunned. 168pp. First Edition. Gray Cloth Black Back Strip. Nearly Fine/Lightly Worn Dust Jacket. Octavo. Harper and Brothers Hardcover books
198757186NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1987. First illustrated edition. Pelizzoli Francesca. Small 4to pp. 288. Illustrated in color by Francesca Pelizzoli; also with photographs. Black paper over boards. Light stain on front edges of leaves o/w a nice copy in slilghtly scuffed and soiled dj with decorations and an applied illustration. Weidenfeld & Nicolson unknown books
1987Embry 191629Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1987. First U.S. edition. Owner's gift inscription small spot to front panel else fine in very good price-clipped dust jacket with some light wear and rubbing to spine tips and minor edgewear in mylar cover. Illus. by Francesca Pelizzoli. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. First U.S. edition. unknown books
1959110441London: Chatto & Windus 1959. First edition of Huxley's autobiographical work based on her early life among white settlers on her father's coffee plantation in Kenya. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Elspeth Huxley on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rosemary Seligman. Uncommon signed. Elspeth Huxley prolifically wrote thirty books but she is best known for her lyrical books The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard. Both are based on her experiences growing up in a coffee farm in Colonial Kenya. Her husband Gervas Huxley was related to both Thomas and Aldous Huxley Lownie 2006. A year after the publication of The Flame Trees of Thika Huxley was appointed an independent member of the Advisory Commission for the Review of the Constitution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. She was an advocate of colonialism early in life and later called for independence for African countries Ibid. In the 1960s she served as a correspondent for the National Review magazine. It was later made into the well received television series originally airing in 1981. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
195996020London: Chatto & Windus 1959. First edition of the reissue of Huxley's autobiographical work based on her early life among white settlers on her father's coffee plantation in Kenya. Octavo original cloth frontispiece. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page "For Joe Ferrier with all good wishes. Elspeth Huxley." The recipient Joe Ferrier was a lifelong friend of Huxley's. They often exchanged letters books and article clippings between England and the United States. Also laid in are three typed letters signed by Huxley to the recipient. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Woodcock. Elspeth Huxley prolifically wrote thirty books but she is best known for her lyrical books The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard. Both are based on her experiences growing up in a coffee farm in Colonial Kenya. Her husband Gervas Huxley was related to both Thomas and Aldous Huxley Lownie 2006. A year after the publication of The Flame Trees of Thika Huxley was appointed an independent member of the Advisory Commission for the Review of the Constitution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. She was an advocate of colonialism early in life and later called for independence for African countries Ibid. In the 1960s she served as a correspondent for the National Review magazine. It was later made into the well received television series originally airing in 1981. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
2000UHUXFLA00FPPenguin 2000. Very Good. Huxley Elspeth. The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood. New York NY: Penguin 2000. 280pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to edges. Penguin paperback books
1963M11821New York & London:: Hafner Publishing 1963. 1963. Reprint. 8vo. xii 514 pp. 221 figs. index. Red cloth gilt-stamped spine title. Ink signature on title-page. Fine. Hafner Publishing, 1963. hardcover books
193837904NY: Willey 1938. First printing. Large 8vo pp. 55. With a note by Jean Videpoche. Illustrated with six color reproductions and 24 in black and white. Paper over boards. A small tear on spine o/w a nice copy. Willey unknown books
1938WRCLIT33250New York: Wiley Book Co. 1938. Boards. Portrait and plates some in color. First edition. A very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Wiley Book Co. hardcover books
1938WRCLIT50512New York: Willey Book Co. 1938. Printed boards. Portrait and plates some in color. First edition. Boards somewhat rubbed and soiled two pencil ownership signatures one on rear pastedown but a good sound copy without dust jacket. Willey Book Co. hardcover books