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8vo., First Edition, with frontspiece and illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, dustwrapper offset to backstrip else a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly faded at backstrip. Cross & Perkin A28a.
In 16o, pp. 398, br. Traduz. di Aldo Traverso, firma di proprietà (6644/ HUXLEY - FOGLIE SECCHE - LETTERATURA INGLESE 1900)
In-8 (cm. 21), brossura, pp. 407, (3). Prima edizione italiana. In buono stato di conservazione (good copy).
Mm 135x200 Prima edizione. "Collezione dell'Arcobaleno" - Brossura editoriale di pagine 407 sovraccoperta mancante. Opera in buone condizioni. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Slight wear to cover. Previous owner's inscription inside. 7 1/2"w x 6 1/2"h. 84 pages. 25 color illustrations, with texts by Eugene Berman, Paul Horgan, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, and Stephen Spender and a biographical note by Robert Craft.
8vo., small neat signature on front free endpaper; plum cloth, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. Published as Collected Essays Vol. IX. Collects five major essays written between 1886 and 1894.
Paris, Librairie Stock, Delamain et Boutelleau, Le Cabinet Cosmopolite, N° 61, 1931. In-8, broché, 258 pp., couverture imprimée. (Masereel). Edition originale de la traduction française. Un des exemplaires numérotés sur Alfa satiné, bel exemplaire.
in-8°, 295 pages, index, Hardback + DW VG+/VG+ [EN-1]
8vo., Second Impression, free endpapers lightly browned; original burgundy cloth, gilt back, uncut, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. With publisher's advertisement leaf at end. Collects eleven essays relating to evolution, the 'Origin' and the aftermath, by one of Darwin's closest friends and staunchest supporters. Volume two of Huxley's 'Collected Essays' but complete in itself. First published in the previous year. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
307p. 12mo. Original full cloth binding decorated in green and pink. Sun Dial Library. Crome Yellow is the first novel by British author Aldous Huxley, first published in 1921. Here Huxley satirises the fads and fashions of the time. It is the story of a house party at Crome, a parodic version of Garsington Manor, home of Lady Ottoline Morrell, a house where authors such as Huxley and T. S. Eliot used to gather and write. There is a brief pre-figuring of Huxley's great later novel, Brave New World. OCC 4
Book shows very light wear to covers with a little edge wear. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 120 pages with occasional b&w photos. William Burroughs was a big fan of this device, cover shows him staring into it.
A brochure for Microtomes for electron microscopy with details on operation, mechanisms, oil-filled dashpots and maintenance. 12 pages. Four binder holes punched to side edge. 344 Sheet E: Liquid-nitrogen cooling attachment stapled to inside back cover.
323 pages. Index. Map endpapers. Many reproductions of archival black and white photos. Includes many local familiy histories. Unmarked with moderate wear to pale orange-coloured boards. Binding intact. A sound copy of this wonderful genealogical reference. Book
1st edition. 12mo, 168 pages, no illustrations. VG hbk in green cloth, gilt spine lettering. With a foreword by Peter Scott. A discussion on mankind and his environmental impact . 23908. eng
A very small number of classified section listings highlighted with a tick or pale blue. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slighly tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 115pp. This issue includes Frank Richards and 'Billy Bunter', Oxford University Press World's Classics, Rose Macaulay, the importance of dust-jackets, Kay Nielsen's illustrated books and Aldous Huxley fiction.
No marks or inscriptions . Crease to front cover, none to rear. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly rubbed spine and no bumping to corners. 163p. This issue includes Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael, Jack Higgins (Harry Patterson), Aldous Huxley novels, John Hadfield, humorist Paul Jennings, Kathleen Hale and 'Orlando the Marmalade Cat', collecting early printed books, index and letters and classified..
8vo., First Edition, small neat signature on front paste-down; burgundy cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at folds-ins and with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Huxley reviews the facts concerning cancer in the light of modern biological advances, and concludes that its study can no longer be regarded merely as a specialised branch of medicine but is a focal field of general biology.
8vo., boards gilt, cloth back gilt, uncut, cancelled stamp on title else a very good copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 550 COPIES
8vo., First Edition,top and fore-edge lightly spotted; original yellow cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter sunned at backstrip and mildly age-spotted. Cross & Perkin A31.
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny bump to spine foot and no bumping to very sharp corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with rubbing/nicks to upper edge. 278pp. A joint biography of Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley, the latter known as Darwin's Bulldog for his advocacy of Darwin's theory of evolution.
4 pages of illustrations 278 pages. Slight soiling to covers.
8vo., First Edition, endpapers lightly browned; grey cloth, gilt back, blue top, a bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter very lightly frayed and creased at edges.
241 p. Paper beginning to brown but not brittle. 175mm. Softbound. Covers rubbed, worn and slightly soiled. Bantam Books paperback. Second printing. Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. LIT BX 7
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full red cloth boards. Previous owner's name inside. Attractive small format: 4 3/4"w x 7 1/2"h. 350 pages.
Clean and unmarked; tight binding. Previous owner's name inside. Age-toned paper. 284 pages.
