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Essays New and Old
London: at the Florence Press. Chatto & Windus 1926. First edition Number 175 of 650 copies signed by the author. viii 257 pp. 1 vols. 4to. New half blue cloth. Fine in Blue cloth slip case. First edition Number 175 of 650 copies signed by the author. viii 257 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Eschelbach & Shober 26; Ransom p. 279 # 19 at the Florence Press. Chatto & Windus unknown books
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Fine Autograph Letter Signed to J. H. CHAMBERLAIN Thomas Henry 1825-1895 Biologist
John Henry 1831-1883 Architect based in Birmingham saying that "Far be it from me to forget the Birmingham & Midland Institute & the many kind receptions I have met with from its members - but I have had a warning to abstain from all work that can be avoided and I am sorry to say that I must give you the Popes answer 'Non possumus'." 2 side 8vo. 26 Abbey Place London NW 21st July date not clear but From 1870 onwards Huxley was to some extent drawn away from scientific research by the claims of public duty. He served on eight Royal Commissions from 1862 to 1884. From 1871 to 1880 he was a Secretary of the Royal Society and from 1883 to 1885 he was president. He was president of the Geological Society from 1868 to 1870. In 1870 he was president of the British Association at Liverpool and in the same year was elected a member of the newly constituted London School Board. Huxley is known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Some time in 1871 Huxley had been found to have a heart condition and hence his reference to reducing his work load. The phrase 'decree of non possumus' means 'We Cannot' and would be the first words of a Papal decree when he is refusing something. The red armorial stamp is from an auction of 1917 to raise money for the War Effort. The previous owner had acquired this item from a collection sold in this auction. unknown
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Fine Autograph Letter Signed to S. Squire SPRIGGE Thomas Henry 1825-1895 Biologist
Sir Samuel Squire 1860-1937 Medical Editor and Author saying that he is "trying to get to the bottom of the many letters which accumulated during my late absences in the Canaries & Madeira. I have just come across the enclosed. I hasten to send it to you as it entirely alters the aspect of Mr Baiters action. I do not remember giving him the privilege to speak in express terms but I should not like to say that my words may have been incapable of that interpretation." 3 sides 8vo. 4 Marlborough Place London 7th June Between 1870 and 1885 Huxley went through a period of almost ceaseless activity. He was chosen as one of the secretaries of the Royal Society published a variety of philosophical works was a member of the London School board and served on six royal commissions. This was in addition to his lecturing and his scientific publications. Huxley is known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Huxley's London home in which he wrote many of his works was at 4 Marlborough Place St John's Wood. The house was extended in the early 1870s to include a large drawing and dining room at which he held informal Sunday gatherings. unknown
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Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Dr ALLCHIN Thomas Henry 1825-1895 Biologist
William Henry 18461912 Physician and lecturer on comparative anatomy physiology pathology and medicine at Westminster Hospital saying he is"sorry that it is not practicable for me to comply with your wish. My work begins at South Kensington on the 1st October and I shall have many things to attend to on that day. Moreover I am afraid that I take a different view from you about the desireableness sic of small schools - at least so far as the Institutes are concerned." 3 sides 8vo. 4 Marlborough Place 25th July Between 1870 and 1885 Huxley went through a period of almost ceaseless activity. He was chosen as one of the secretaries of the Royal Society published a variety of philosophical works was a member of the London School board and served on six royal commissions. This was in addition to his lecturing and his scientific publications. Huxley is known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. unknown
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Fine Autograph Testimonial Signed recommending Dr ALLCHIN Thomas Henry 1825-1895 Biologist
William Henry 18461912 Physician and lecturer on comparative anatomy physiology pathology and medicine at Westminster Hospital saying that he "has on several occasions acted as assistant examiner in Physiology for the Science & Art Department and I am very glad to certify to the conscientious and able manner in which he has discharged the duties of the office." 2 sides 8vo. 4 Marlborough Place London 19th July Between 1870 and 1885 Huxley went through a period of almost ceaseless activity. He was chosen as one of the secretaries of the Royal Society published a variety of philosophical works was a member of the London School board and served on six royal commissions. This was in addition to his lecturing and his scientific publications. Huxley is known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. unknown
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Fine signature on card Sir Julian Sorrell 1887-1975 Zoologist & Philosopher
4" x 3" no place July unknown
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Fine Signature on card Leonard 1860-1933 Schoolteacher and Author son of the Zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley
3½" x 2½" no place no date He first married Julia Arnold who founded a school. She was the daughter of the academic Tom Arnold. She was a sister of the novelist Mrs Humphry Ward niece of the poet Matthew Arnold. Their four children included the biologist Julian Huxley 18871975 and the writer Aldous Huxley 18941963. unknown
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Fine signature from a cheque Thomas Henry 1825-1895 Biologist
4" x 1" with the remains of the bank address "Salford Bank Ltd" and the date 7th December unknown
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Fine signature and inscription Aldous 1894-1963 Novelist
with all good wishes" and the date on a card unknown
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Fine signature and 'your faithfully' Aldous 1894-1963 Novelist
taken from a letter unknown
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Hume
Cambridge University Press 2011. PAPERBACK. New. Cambridge University Press paperback
Référence libraire : Cambridge-9781108034777 ISBN : 1108034772 9781108034777
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Hume
Cambridge University Press 2011. PAPERBACK. New. Cambridge University Press paperback
Référence libraire : Cambridge-9781108034777 ISBN : 1108034772 9781108034777
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Introductory
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Référence libraire : 1021092622.G ISBN : 1021092622 9781021092625
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Le Meilleur des Mondes
Audiolib 2015. Audio CD. New. 530 pages. French language. 7.48x5.51x0.39 inches. Audiolib unknown
Référence libraire : 2-2356419543 ISBN : 2356419543 9782356419545
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Más allá del Golfo de México Popular 722 Spanish Edition
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Référence libraire : 607162410X.G ISBN : 607162410X 9786071624109
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Science Primers Vol. 8
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Référence libraire : 0364899565.G ISBN : 0364899565 9780364899564
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Wonderful New World and other three editions Mikasa Edition Modern World Literature Complete Works <Japanese Version>
Mikasa shobo 1954. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Mikasa shobo paperback
Référence libraire : 2092902140307527
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Garden Terms Simplified
Winchester Press 1971-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Clean has a good binding and crisp pages no marks or notations. Light scuffing at corners. HB HS Winchester Press hardcover books
Référence libraire : 191896 ISBN : 0876910576 9780876910573
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Huxley Aldous
AFTER MANY A SUMMER DIES THE SWAN
New York: Harper & Brothers 1939. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good-. Octavo. A near fine copy with neat owner inscription ffep. In a very good- dust jacket with chips short closed tears mild scuffs spine of dust jacket. 356 pp. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover books
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AFTER MANY A SUMMER DIES THE SWAN
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1939. Octavo pp. 1-4 1-2 3-356 title page printed in brown and black original brown pebbled cloth front and spine panels stamped in blue and gold fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed. First U.S. edition. Jeremy a young English scholar is engaged to catalogue a manuscript collection in Los Angeles belonging to the eccentric and malignant Mr. Stoyte whose live-in physician Dr. Obispo is searching for a longevity drug. "At once comic and ironic philosophic religious and erotic and in its development both tragic and horrific the narrative leads -- by way of the eighteenth-century manuscript journal of the 5th Earl of Gonister found by Jeremy among the Hauberk Papers -- to a conclusive anticipation of Stoyte and Obispo's search for the elixir of life." - Longman Companion to Twentieth Century Literature p. 7. Huxley moved to Los Angeles in the late 1930s and lived there off and on until his death in 1963. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 4-322; 1981 3-413; 1987 3-219; and 1995 2-55. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I pp. 33-7. Baird and Greenwood An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1273. Powell California Classics no. 30. A Burgess 99 novel. Spine panel just a bit dull else a very good bright copy; no dust jacket. #107162 Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
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AFTER MANY A SUMMER DIES THE SWAN
New York: Avon. Very Good. 1952. Paperback. New York: Avon Publishing 1952. Avon Pocket Size Books light wear Good. . Avon paperback books
Référence libraire : 54111
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After Many A Summer.
London: Chatto & Windus 1939. First edition of this classic novel. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication "For Carvel James with good wishes Aldous Huxley 1939." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Uncommon in this condition and signed. After Many a Summer tells the story of a Hollywood millionaire who fears his impending death. It was published in the United States as After Many a Summer Dies the Swan. Written soon after Huxley left England and settled in California the novel is Huxley's examination of American culture particularly what he saw as its narcissism superficiality and obsession with youth. This satire also raises philosophical and social issues some of which would later take the forefront in Huxley's final novel Island. The novel's title is taken from Tennyson's poem Tithonus about a figure in Greek mythology to whom Aurora gave eternal life but not eternal youth. The book was awarded the 1939 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
Référence libraire : 121198
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After Many A Summer: A Novel
London: Chatto and Windus 1939. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19.5cm; brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; brown topstain; dustjacket; vi314pp. Spine ends pushed and lightly worn mild offsetting from jacket flaps onto endpapers with some scattered foxing and soil to text edges; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 7s.6d. net edgeworn sunned at spine and panels with several shallow chips to spine ends and several short tears to extremities; Very Good. A Hollywood satire centered around a millionaire who fears his impending death. BROMER A49.1.1. Chatto and Windus unknown books
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ALDOUS HUXLEY COMPLETE ESSAYS.; Volume I 1920-1925. Volume II 1926-1929
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee 2000. Two volumes. 8vo pp. xx 487; xvii 587. Edited by Robert . Baker and James Sexton. Frontis portraits. Fine in djs. Ivan R. Dee unknown books
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Along the Road - Notes and Essays of a Tourist
New York. George H. Doran Company. 1925. Bound in 1/2 vellum and paper covered boards. 8vo. Large Paper Edition Limited to 250 numbered copies of which this is #95. Signed by Aldous Huxley. Spine label half chipped off with glue residue and various staining to vellum spine else Near Fine. A tight copy. George H. Doran Company. hardcover books
Référence libraire : 5834
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Along the Road Notes and Essays of a Tourist
New York: George H. Doran Company. Very Good. 1925. Hardcover. Slight toning loose otherwise good . George H. Doran Company hardcover books
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ALONG THE ROAD NOTES AND ESSAYS OF A TOURIST
London: Chatto & Windus 1925. Cloth paper label. First edition trade issue. Spine and edges lightly faded else a very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
Référence libraire : WRCLIT32933
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ALONG THE ROAD. NOTES AND ESSAYS OF A TOURIST
London: Chatto & Windus 1925. Cloth paper label. First edition trade issue. Spine and edges lightly faded else a very good copy in modestly edgeworn and dust soiled jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
Référence libraire : WRCLIT42101
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An encyclopaedia of pacifism
New York and London: Harper & Brothers 1937. First American edition 16mo pp. 2 104 2; original green paper wrappers; wrappers soiled underlining and marginal notes in pencil throughout otherwise very good and sound. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers unknown books
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Antic Hay
London: Chatto & Windus 1924. Hardcover. Octavo; G Hardcover; Yellow spine with Brown text on white spine label; Boards strong bumping and rubbing to corners fraying along spine edges slight cocking to spine some edgewear moderate shelfwear spine label peeling off white mark on spine black mark on rear cover; Textblock has separation along hinge between pages 16 and 17 towards head edge pencil mark on page 17 final printed page rear pastedown staining to front and rear endpapers small brown spot on reverse of front endpaper brown marks on copyright page and page 1 foxing on pages 2-4 and 281 age toning otherwise clean; 328 pp. 1321366. FP New Rockville Stock. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
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Antic Hay
London: Chatto & Windus 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Original yellow cloth; spine labeled darkened but with the publisher's additional spine label perfectly preserved at the back of the book. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
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Antic Hay
London: Chatto & Windus 1923. First. hardcover. very good. 8vo dark yellow cloth; paper spine label; spine tanned slight dust soil. London: Chatto & Windus 1923. First Edition<br/><br/> Chatto & Windus unknown books
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Antic Hay.
London: Chatto & Windus 1923. First edition of this classic novel. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For James Murphy thirty years later Aldous Huxley 1954." Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Uncommon signed and inscribed. London life just after World War I devoid of values and moving headlong into chaos at breakneck speed - Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay like Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists third-rate poets pompous critics pseudo-scientists con-men bewildered romantics cock-eyed futurists - all inhabit this world spinning out of control as wildly comic as it is disturbingly accurate. In a style that ranges from the lyrical to the absurd and with characters whose identities shift and change as often as their names and appearances Huxley has here invented a novel that bristles with life and energy what the New York Times called "a delirium of sense enjoyment!" Chatto & Windus hardcover books
Référence libraire : 119728
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Ape and Essence
New York: Harper & Brothers 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; VG- Hardcover w/ G Dustjacket; Gold spine with Black and Blue text; Dustjacket has moderate edgewear some shelfwear closed tear along front joint closed tear along head edge of rear cover small closed tear along tail edge of rear cover otherwise clean; Boards strong slight cocking to spine some edgewear some shelfwear bumping to corners otherwise clean; Textblock has staining to front endpaper and pastedown some age toning otherwise clean; 205 pp; F-X Code on Copyright Page. 1321179. FP New Rockville Stock. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
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APE AND ESSENCE
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1948. Octavo pp. 1-6 1-205 206: blank 207: colophon 208-210: blank note: last leaf is a blank publisher's blue cloth Harper's device stamped in light blue on front panel spine panel stamped in light blue and gold fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. "After a comprehensive atomic bomb catastrophe man undergoes biological changes. Love is extinct only collective seasonal sexual intercourse remains. The place of traditional religion has been taken by a hysterical worship of Belial the god of evil." - Gerber Utopian Fantasy 1973 pp. 156-57. ". scalpel-like satirical account of twentieth-century humans' failure to understand their nature. Lesser writers would not handle this scenario and theme intelligently until the 1960's." - Anatomy of Wonder 1995 3-97. "Bleak and timely." - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction p. 17. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-557. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 235. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I pp. 78-83. Baird and Greenwood An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1274. Faint narrow insect tracking along lower edge of front cover and upper and lower edges of rear cover else a bright near fine copy in very good gold-foil dust jacket with shelf wear along upper edges and at tail of spine panel and lower corner tips several closed tears at edges some internal tape reinforcements mostly along top edges and clipped price. #30833 Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
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APE AND ESSENCE
London: Chatto & Windus 1949. First Edition. 8vo pp. 153. A nice copy in chipped dj. Eschelbach & Shober 5. A futuristic novel of life after atomic warfare. Chatto & Windus unknown books
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APE AND ESSENCE
New York: Harper 1948. Cloth. First U.S. edition. Near fine in a bright example of the gold foil jacket that is chipped at the head of the spine and has a crease and some short closed tears at the top of the lower panel. Harper hardcover books
Référence libraire : WRCLIT33235
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Ape and Essence: A Novel
London: Chatto & Windus 1949. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19.5cm; blue-gray cloth titled in gilt over a blue panel at upper spine; blue topstain; dustjacket; vi1531pp. Tiny stain to upper edge of textblock else a fresh Fine copy. Dustjacket is price-clipped with some pinpoint wear to extremities; very Near Fine. "In 1947 William Tallis writes rejected screenplay of California in 2018 visited by New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition after nuclear holocaust. Situation is neo-medieval church-directed. Message is scalpel-like satirical account of twentieth-century humans' failure to understand their nature" Barron Anatomy of Wonder 3-220. BROMER A62.2; NEGLEY 603; SARGENT p.116. Chatto & Windus unknown books
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Apennine Limited Edition Signed
Gaylordsville: The Slide Mountain Press 1930. First Limited Edition. One of 91 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author this being copy no.29. Quarto 26.75cm; patterned paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip with title label mounted to spine; publisher's pictorial paper-covered slipcase; 16pp with errata slip tipped in before title page correcting the author's misspelled first name. With a single woodcut illustration by O. Macrum opposite Huxley's poem. Presentation copy warmly inscribed by the publishers on the front endpaper: "For Milly and Elizabeth Randall-Mills / with compliments and thanks! / James and Elizabeth Wells / October 27 1936." Some light rubbing and dust-soil to backstrip faint foxing to endpapers and edges of a few leaves else Near Fine lacking the original glassine with a new one supplied. Slipcase is lightly tanned and edgeworn with a few thin cracks 1.25" loss at lower edge and some faint whitish spotting; still Very Good and sound. An elaborate slip of a book produced by James and Hilda Wells's Slide Mountain Press printing a single poem by Huxley which was subsequently published in his 1931 collection The Cicadas and Other Poems. BROMER A25. The Slide Mountain Press unknown books
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ARABIA INFELIX AND OTHER POEMS
New York & London: Fountain Press/Chatto & Windus 1929. Cloth and boards. Pictorial title vignette. First edition. One of 692 numbered copies signed by the author. Edges slightly dusty else fine in remnants of glassine dust jacket. Fountain Press/Chatto & Windus hardcover books
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Autograph Letter Signed
"Aldous Huxley" Hollywood October 12 1937; to an autograph seeker: "Mr. Blake has written to me from San Francisco about a book you would like autographed. If you will send it to the above address I will sign it and return it by post. Yours Sincerely." at this time Huxley had just arrived in Hollywood via San Cristobal NM where he had written "Ends and Means" while spending the summer at Frieda Lawrence's ranch. 4to. 1 page. Signed by Authors. F. Soft cover. paperback books
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Autograph Letter Signed
15 Via S. Margherita a Montici Florence May 1 1925. 8vo 1 page with integral leaf on paper watermarked "Old Royal Vidalon." "Dear Richard: I enclose a proof of an essay on Benphel- & other things- which is to appear in book form this autumn. I send it in the hope that you may find it of use for the Calendar. If so it would have to be published before the end of September. Yours." Huxley sends a proof of an essay not included from his forthcoming book "Do What You Will" for possible publication in the "Calendar" providing it appears before the end of September the book was published in October. Huxley 1894-1963 English-born author and critic; best known for "Brave New World" 1932 and "Brave New World Revisited" 1958; died in Los Angeles. Signed by Authors. F. Soft cover. paperback books
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Autograph Letter Signed. To Mr. Pearl. "All the photographs that I had were destroyed last year in the burning of my house. So I cannot send you one.
6233 Mulholland Los Angeles 28/Cal 8/viii/62. 1 page. 4to. About Fine remnant of paper at bottom from album. 1 page. 4to. unknown books
Référence libraire : 53728
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Beyond the Mexique Bay
London: Chatto & Windus 1934. Edition limited to 210 copies signed by Huxley this no. 202 8vo pp. xii 318 2; 30 photoreoproductive plates; green cloth-backed pattern paper boards t.e.g.; spine toned. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
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BEYOND THE MEXIQUE BAY
London: Chatto & Windus 1934. Gilt cloth endsheet maps. Frontis and photographs. First edition trade issue. A few faint marks to cloth otherwise a very good bright copy without dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
Référence libraire : WRCLIT49604
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BEYOND THE MEXIQUE BAY
London: Chatto & Windus 1934. Cloth. Frontis photographs. First edition trade issue. Some foxing to prelims spine a bit darkened and rubbed but a good or better copy lacking the jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
Référence libraire : WRCLIT33244
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Brave New World
Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran and Company 1932. First American Trade Edition. Very Good. First American trade edition first printing. Publisher's brown cloth binding decorated in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Lean to binding. Spine and edges faded spine worn at ends and gilt stamping dulled corners rubbed. Pages toned previous owner name to front free end paper. Doubleday, Doran and Company unknown books
Référence libraire : 140941545
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Brave New World
Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran and Company 1932. First American Trade Edition. Very Good. First American trade edition first printing. Publisher's brown cloth binding decorated in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Slight lean to binding light wear to spine ends cloth faded at spine light spotting to textblock edge; former owner name and date to front free endpaper pages toned and sporadically foxed. Doubleday, Doran and Company unknown books
Référence libraire : 140941602
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Brave New World
New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1932. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth stamped in gilt with red topstain. Near Fine with light sunning to spine and edges pages toned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket edge-worn and with several masking tape reinforcements to the verso. The classic dystopian novel that posited a nearly omnipotent totalitarian state essentially built from the ground up rather than the top-down dictatorship of 1984. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc unknown books
Référence libraire : 140941273
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Brave New World
London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good . A Nearly Fine copy of the book on account of gentle cocking of the spine in VG dust jacket with a few small chips at the crown and corners; spine slightly toned. Contemporary owner's name on the front endpaper. Overall a pleasing copy.<br/><br/>A defining moment in the genre of the dystopian novel Brave New World considers the dangers that new technologies and mass modernization pose to the very core of humanness. Rather than depicting these developments as gateways to utopia as writers such as H.G. Wells had done Huxley foreshadowed how radically technology and psychological conditioning could limit individual rights ranging from sexuality and reproduction to creativity to love. A "nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science" DNB. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Chatto & Windus unknown books
Référence libraire : 4132
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