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1930ref. 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
1981ref. 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
ref. 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
1937ref. BOOKS17862London UK: Chatto and Windus. Good plus condition-large rip in DJ taped/Dust Jacket. 1937. 8vo. 336 pp. . Chatto and Windus unknown
1938ref. 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
1974ref. 2012048082Greenwood Press 1974. Reprint. Reprint of 1924 ed. Hard cover. good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. 5x0x8. Greenwood Press hardcover
1926ref. 005065George H. Doran. Half cloth with marbled boars spine faded with soiling and frayed edges. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1926. George H. Doran hardcover
1935ref. 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
ref. 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
ref. 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
1937ref. 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
1928ref. 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
1925ref. 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
1955ref. 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
ref. 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
1938ref. 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
1937ref. 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
ref. FORT224668Chatto & Windus. Used - Acceptable. 1st Edition. 1946. Chatto & Windus unknown
1969ref. 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
1931ref. 543London: Chatto & Windus 1931. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Tan cloth dust jacket. 104pp. Very good/very good. First edition. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1950ref. 207522London: Chatto & Windus 1950. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 260 pages. A collection of seven essays by Huxley. A clean and tight near fine copy in red cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket with a tear to the base of the front panel near the spine and some other light edge wear. A much nicer than usual copy. Chatto & Windus unknown
1926ref. COLLECTI012510ILONDON: CHATTO & WINDUS. FINE IN NEAR FINE DUST JACKET. PUB 1926. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. BLUE CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT SPINE TITLES AND TOP EDGE STAINED BLUE. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT OTHER THAN A MODEST BRUISE TO THE BOTTOM FRONT FORE-EDGE CORNER. D.J. IS ABOUT FINE WTIH OVERALL TONING AND SPINE A SHADE DARKER WITH NO CHIPS OR TEARS. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN BRIGHT UNFADED COPY. . CHATTO & WINDUS hardcover
1939ref. 557748Stockholm: Bermann-Fischer Verlag 1939. Softcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Text in German. 59pp. Plain white card covers. "C. Van Buskirk" in blue pencil on front fly light offsetting on endpapers from dust jacket else very good in a good only age-toned dust jacket with small dampstain on rear panel loss to the spine affecting the text. Bermann-Fischer Verlag unknown
1930ref. 502743London: Chatto & Windus 1930. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition trade issue Escelbach 65. Octavo. 59pp. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Faint dust soiling on top-edge else a fine copy in near fine price-clipped dust jacket with spine tanned shallow chipping at crown and a small price sticker affixed to rear flap. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1930ref. 1000168London: Chatto and Windus 1930 First edition. Decorative boards. Small octavo. Light offsetting to fly-leaves. Otherwise fine in very good jacket. Spine of jacket lightly browned. Chatto and Windus, hardcover