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1946Best.-Nr. 282593New York and London: Harper & Brothers 1946. Hardcover. Good/Missing. Harper & Brothers 1946; early printing of 1946 Edition with new forward by the author; 1946 on title page publisher's code 'M-V' on copyright page. Good- hardcover with detached rear panel and flap included for the hell of it. Binding is sturdy and intact spine has slight lean; previous owner inscriptions on front end page and paste-down red pencil markings scattered throughout text/margins primarily first 50 pages; moderate amount of wear to edges of blue cloth boards; light rubbing to gilt/blue titling otherwise remains bright and bold; foxing to top edges of page block. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis Minnesota. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 610374London: Chatto & Windus 1930. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Foxing on the page edges and endpapers and slightly bowed front board thus very good in a very good dust jacket with toning chips and creasing. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 145277London: Chatto & Windus 1930. First English edition of the author's fifth collection of short fiction. Octavo original red boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine top stain red. Near fine in a very good dust jacket name to the front free endpaper. Huxley's fifth collection of short fiction Brief Candles contains four short stories: Chawdron The Rest Cure The Claxtons and After the Fireworks. Brief Candles takes its title from a line in William Shakespeare's Macbeth from Macbeth's famous soliloquy: "Out out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing." Chatto & Windus hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 540369Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. A touch of soiling on the spine light bumping at the spine ends near fine in an about very good dust jacket with loss at the crown affecting text chips at the edges and small tears on the front flap fold. Doubleday, Doran hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 09011London: Chatto & Windus 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo. 3231pp. Bound in red cloth spine lettering gilt top edge stained red. A near fine copy with light scattered foxing in very good unclipped dust jacket with short closed tears mild edge wear and minimal darkening spine. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1981Best.-Nr. 95000Franklin Center:: Franklin Library. Near Fine. 1981. Hardcover. B0058KAV2E . Limited edition. Octavo fully bound in dark blue leather with gilt lettering and design raised bands along the spine all edges gilt silk moire endpapers sewn-in ribbon bookmark. Near fine. . Franklin Library, hardcover
Best.-Nr. 12106Original Wraps. Very Good in Wraps. Original Wraps. Previously owned by Oliver Sacks. Works include: Brave New World; Beyond the Mexique Bay: A Traveller's Journal; The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell Vintage Classics; and The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell Harper Colophon. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Minimal shelfwear chipp.ing toning dampstaining else tight bright and unmarred. illus b/w. unknown
1937Best.-Nr. BOOKS17862London UK: Chatto and Windus. Good plus condition-large rip in DJ taped/Dust Jacket. 1937. 8vo. 336 pp. . Chatto and Windus unknown
1938Best.-Nr. 005924London: Chatto & Windus 1938. Considered by some to be Huxley's greatest novel. First published in 1936; this is a Near Fine copy of the Second Impression stated "A New Impression" from two years later. Light orange cloth binding with titling in white on the spine. Clean text; 620 pages. Front paste-down has a small Blackwoods label and a previous-owner bookplate. Light rub to the corners a bit of sun to the top edge. Lacking a dustwrapper. In an archival plastic protector. Second Impression. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Chatto & Windus Hardcover
1956Best.-Nr. 49599New York: Harper & Brothers 1956. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Two-tone blue cloth with orange spine lettering pictorial dust jacket. 103pp. Near fine/very good. Faintest touch of rubbing to spine head/tail; jacket faintly edgeworn. Handsome tight first edition of this challenging-to-summarize slim study that might best be described as the English writer and philosopher's ruminations on vision and perception parapsychology and consciousness especially as these factors affect reaction to works of art. Quite a lovely copy. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1974Best.-Nr. 2012048082Greenwood Press 1974. Reprint. Reprint of 1924 ed. Hard cover. good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. 5x0x8. Greenwood Press hardcover
1926Best.-Nr. 005065George H. Doran. Half cloth with marbled boars spine faded with soiling and frayed edges. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1926. George H. Doran hardcover
1926Best.-Nr. JC10712London: Chatto and Windus 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Blue cloth gilt-stamped lettering on spine; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 8 291 5 ads plus frontispiece and 13 plates. Spine tips and corners gently bumped; edges of boards just a little tanned; ownership signature on FFEP. Dust jacket chipped along the edges; two large tears down front panel. On India Burma Malaya the Pacific and America. Chatto and Windus hardcover
1935Best.-Nr. 004342Praha Prague: Petr Vaclav 1935. Huxley's longest novel published in the West as "Point Counterpoint" in 1928. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Czech Edition. Interesting modernist cloth binding in gray white and black. Clean text; 517 pages. Two bumped corners else a Fine copy. The dustwrapper is also of an interesting design in tan green white and brown. Light edgewear; in an archival plastic protector. With it is the original cardboard slipcase. For the Huxley completist!. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Petr Vaclav Hardcover
Best.-Nr. 52809760-75Used - Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. unknown
Best.-Nr. 51552New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Light grey cloth with gilt lettering pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 514pp 8pp ads. Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear only; poignant nonauthorial ownership inscription on copyright page. Handsome and tight later late 1950s printing of Modern Library #180 first published by them in 1930 -- the British novelist's long 1928 "novel of ideas." Intriguingly inner flyleaf bears a custom 3½" X 4½" bookplate designed by celebrated painter/illustrator Rockwell Kent 1882-1971 for the writer/artist he hand-picked as his biographer/bibliographer: Printed name reads "Jacquie & Dan Burne Jones." Dan Burne Jones 1908-95 was an artist in his own right and authored the 1975 "The Prints of Rockwell Kent: A Catalogue Raisonne. The Modern Library hardcover
1937Best.-Nr. 23504London: Chatto & Windus 1937. New Impression". Hardcover. A fine copy entirely clean and unworn and with no previous owner markings of any kind in near fine jacket with slight edgewear. Bookseller sticker of MacGregor Book Mart Dundee on rear fixed endpaper. 6 601 pp. octavo original brown cloth with cover titles in white dustjacket. Huxley's longest novel an examination of conflicting worldviews social mores and intellectual ideals among a group of characters some of whom are loosely based on the prominent figures in the world of literature and the arts including DH Lawrence John Middleton Murray Augustus John et al. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1928Best.-Nr. OF-GMGS-ULDCGrosset & Dunlap 1928-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1928 Doubleday Doran hard cover - 1st US edition 1st printing - no dust jacket - some wear to cover - some staining to closed page edge - otherwise binding strong contents clean - enjoy Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
1925Best.-Nr. 78614Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Very Good. 1925. Hardcover. First edition bound in patterned paper boards rubbed at spine ends and corners. Bright internally with a private collector's bookplate. . Basil Blackwell hardcover
1955Best.-Nr. 63027New York: Harper and Brothers 1955. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 21.5cm x 15cm. Publisher's black cloth spine over grey cloth boards. Dustjacket. Titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board light bumping to spine ends some of the gilt a trifle dulled in a clean strong pricelipped dustjacket a touch faded to the spine panela small closed tear to the front panel and with some abrasion and two pinholes to the lower edge of the rear panel. A very good copy. 168pp. Internally clean. Fore-edge untrimmed. An unsurprisingly philosophical and exploratory novel dealing with the tangled lives of a Nobel winning genius his wife and the man who came between them. Harper and Brothers unknown
Best.-Nr. 12392HARPER. NY 1955. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1955. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0701108010 . First American edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Bottom corner of front jacket flap clipped but not price. Small chip at upper right-hand corner of rear panel. A pleasing copy. . HARPER. NY 1955 hardcover
1938Best.-Nr. 22652London: Chatto & Windus 1938. First separate edition. Fine in price-clipped lightly worn jackeet. 58 pp. 12mo original yellow decorative boards with matching paper jacket.58 pp. 12mo original yellow decorative boards with matching paper jacket. Ninth title in publishers Zodiac Books series. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1937Best.-Nr. 59956New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1937. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.25cm; turquoise cloth with titling and decorative elements stmaped in gilt and royal blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; x3073pp. Some beginning oxidation to the gilt rules else a clean very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.75 with modest external wear and a few small nicks and tiny tears to extremities; Very Good. A collection of 16 essays on largely literary subjects. BROMER A42.3. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown
Best.-Nr. FORT224668Chatto & Windus. Used - Acceptable. 1st Edition. 1946. Chatto & Windus unknown
1969Best.-Nr. 035313Berkeley: Ecology Center. ca. 1969. The author of Brave New World takes on the threats posed by rising populations and accompanying preoccupations with politics and power rather than with democracy and ecology with special reference given in the text to Russia and China. First thus: issued as Ecology Center Reprint 7 reprinted from Center Magazine. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Ecology Center paperback
