HUXLEY FrancisABAA
Huxley FrancisABAA
THE RAVEN AND THE WRITING DESK
19769010771New York: Harper & Row 1976. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Illustrated. Includes index. <br/><br/> Harper & Row hardcover books
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1976256146New York: Harper 1976. First. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Illustrated in black and white. 191 pages slim 8vo brown cloth dust wrapper very good. New York: Harper & Row 1976. A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Musings on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and on Lewis Carroll.<br/><br/> Harper unknown books
19769010771New York: Harper & Row 1976. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Illustrated. Includes index. <br/><br/> Harper & Row hardcover books
3678London Chatto & Windus 1982. First edition. 8vo. Dust jacket designed by John Sutcliffe unclipped. Very good-fine. 215 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Chatto & Windus, 1982. hardcover books
19829006858London: Chatto & Windus 1982. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1982Embry 147469Chatto & Windus 1982. First edition first printing. Fine in faintly worn dust jacket in mylar cover Chatto & Windus, 1982. First edition, first printing. unknown books
19251335231London: Chapman & Hall Ltd 1925. 567/1000. Hardcover. Octavo; G-; pp 187; tanned beige 1/4 bound spine with gilt text; limited numbered copies; this is 567 of 1000; no jacket; cloth has modest age toning to exterior; rubbed fore corners; pictorial panels; sturdy boards; sunned exterior edges; age darkened spine; sturdy boards; text block edges have slight age toning; top edge gilt; deckled edges; offset to endpapers; slight pencil to endpapers; some uncut pages; interior clean. 1335231. FP New Rockville Stock. Chapman & Hall Ltd hardcover books
1936115671London: Chatto & Windus 1936. Signed limited edition one of 160 copies this is number 41. Octavo original cloth. Boldly signed by Aldous Huxley. In near fine condition. This is one of the best collections of essays that Mr. Huxley has ever made. The title-piece is a completely new departure in technique from anything he has written before: a meditation darting from topic to topic on the olive tree and the associations which it has for the author. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1936007185Chatto & Windus 1936. Book. Fine. Cloth. First English Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy.True First Edition.Near fine Jacket.Faded At Spine.Terrific Copy. Chatto & Windus Hardcover books
1937WRCLIT47387New York: Harper & Brothers 1937. Cloth. First U.S. edition. Spine gilding oxidized a bit literary ownership signature on free endsheet otherwise very good in modestly used and smudged dust jacket with a few small shallow chips. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
185920244London: Printed for the Ray Society 1859. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. Folio pp. viii-x 143 blank ff 24 blank; dull green library linen boards with gilt lettering on spine; boards lightly soiled and rubbed; call numbers stamped to heel of spine; library bookplate to pastedown with "Discard" stamp; four-inch tear to fore-edge of half-title leaf; embossed library stamp and pencil annotations to title leaf; embossed library stamp to p. 1; library tickets and pockets to rear endpapers; cellotape repair to top edge of last plate; else a sound ex-library copy. Illustrated with twelve uncolored lithograph plates and accompanying letterpress descriptive text. Cloth. While serving as ship's surgeon aboard the H.M.S. Rattlesnake Huxley 1825-1895 collected and studied specimens of hydrozoas in the waters off Australia New Guinea and Palermo Italy. Through careful dissections and close observation of physical relationships Huxley succeeded in bringing more detailed order to the knowledge of these minute organisms. Printed for the Ray Society unknown books
1992040871London: Macmillan Press Limited; New YOrk Stockton Press 1992. 4 vols. lviii 815; vii 747; vii 790; vii 888p. b/w illus. original brown cloth quarto format. Macmillan Press Limited; New YOrk, Stockton Press unknown books
199945679London: The Royal Horticultural Society 1999. 4 volumes thick 4to; color plates plain text illustrations text in double columns; original green cloth spines stamped in red and gilt; green board slipcase lettered in gilt; about fine. This edition produced by The Folio Society. <br/><br/> The Royal Horticultural Society hardcover books
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
897New York: William Morrow & Company 1964. . 8vo yellow paper-covered boards front corners lightly bumped; blue cloth spine dust jacket with very slight rubbing at extremities of spine and corners. First American edition New York: William Morrow & Company, 1964. hardcover 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
