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1940Best.-Nr. 10864CA: Ward Ritchie Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Decorative paper over boards new blk cloth spine toned cover and slightly to endsheets; owners name on fep; no additional publication dates noted; No other marks or writing clean tight binding; NOT ex-library; Has authors facsimile signature on title page ;; 28 pages . First Edition. Hardcover. 1940. Ward Ritchie Press hardcover
1923Best.-Nr. BB17281London: 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 and bright as new at the back of the book. With ownership signature of "Louisa Brooke Jones". A nice copy. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1948Best.-Nr. 1000249New York: Harper `1948 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in very good dust jacket with some light edgewear and one small tear at top of front cover. Jacket is bright and unprice-clipped. Laid in is a post card/order form from the Gotham Book Mart soliciting orders for this book: "Be sure of a first edition copy of Ape and Essence. Return this order card today. Harper, hardcover books
1933Best.-Nr. 211899Hamburg: The Albatross 1933. Softcover. VG: Wear to the edges and corners. Previous owner's name on the half-title page. Clean body pages and solid binding. A nicely sized small softcover edition of this classic book. Orange wraps with black text on the spine. 257 pages. The Albatross paperback books
1958Best.-Nr. D20114New York: Harper & Row 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Cloth-backed paper over boards; dust jacket ; 8vo; pp. x 147. Previous owner's bookplate of an owl. A nice copy with minor wear only. Harper & Row hardcover books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
1950Best.-Nr. 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 books
1939Best.-Nr. 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 books
1930Best.-Nr. 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 books
1930Best.-Nr. 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 books
1923Best.-Nr. 1387180New York: George H. Doran Company 1923. Hardcover. Octavo 350 pages. In Good minus condition with a Fair dust jacket. Spine is yellow with black print. Dust jacket in mylar edgewear with small tears at spine ends and flap corners tear to rear top edge smudging/shelf wear toning to spine. Price unclipped: “$2.50”. Boards in brown cloth. Light wear to spine caps. Text block has yellow tinted top edge rear pages have torn fore edge. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column N. 1387180. FP New Rockville Stock. George H. Doran Company hardcover books
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 books
1907Best.-Nr. 1382Springfield Mo.: By the Author 1907 183 pages a funny photograph of a soldier sleeping with a photo thought balloon floating above his head with other amateurish photograph scenarios along with homey poetry. Date on title page is 1907 and copyright page is 1906 but I doubt that this isn't a first edition being published by author. Nice gilt decoration on cover starting in back paper torn web holding rear cover slightly soiled. A nostalgic kind of nice poetry book with author's address name and price stamped to front end page. By the Author hardcover
Best.-Nr. 312124NY: MORROW. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1964. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0387043403 . First American edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 1/2"-inch tear & a 1/4"-inch tear at edges of rear panel of jacket. Mild discoloration to margins on white flaps. Trivial traces of bumping at tips of boards. . MORROW. hardcover
1912Best.-Nr. 1578Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1912. First edition. INTRODUCTION OF THE "ARMS RACE" METAPHOR FOR COEVOLUTIONARY ADVANCES--BY A FOUNDER OF THE MODERN SYNTHESIS. 12x17 cm hardcover red cloth binding illustrated title to cover frontis figure of Volvox i-ix 3 167 pp 4 pp publisher's book list. Spine faded binding tight text clean and unmarked very good in custom archival mylar cover. Cited in Reiss & Ruse The New Biology 2023: "The inevitability of biological progress became the leitmotif of all of Huxley's subsequent writings despite the fact that he tried to remain at least in part true to Darwinian mechanism. In The Individual in the Animal Kingdom 1912 he drew an interesting cultural-biological analogy using the turn-of-the-century naval arms race between Britain and Germany as the example. First the cultural: "Halfway through the century when guns had doubled and trebled their projectile capacity up sprang the 'Merrimac' and the 'Monitor secure in their iron breast-plates; and so the duel has gone on". Concluding: "Each advance in attack has brought forth as if by magic a corresponding advance in defence" Then the biological: "With life it has been the same: if one species happens to vary in the direction of greater independence the inter-related equilibrium is upset and cannot be restored until a number of competing species have either given way to the increased pressure and become extinct or else have answered pressure with pressure". Adding: "So it comes to pass that the continuous change which is passing through the organic world appears as a succession of phases of equilibrium each one on a higher average plane of independence than the one before and each inevitably calling up and giving place to one still higher." Cambridge University Press hardcover
1931Best.-Nr. 2362London & New York: Harper and Brothers 1931. First American Edition. Very good/Near fine. 8vo 7 1/2 x 5 inches 190 x 128 mm ix 278 pp. Original full green cloth binding with lilac title label pasted on spine; unclipped dust jacket somewhat sunned and with small chips to edges protected in archival mylar cover. A collection of essays in which Julian Huxley explores how science-especially evolutionary biology-reshapes our understanding of human nature religion ethics and society. Sir Julian Sorell Huxley 1887-1975 was a prominent 20th century British evolutionary biologist eugenicist and science communicator. A key figure in the "modern synthesis" of evolution he was the first Director-General of UNESCO co-founder of the World Wildlife Fund WWF and a leading proponent of secular scientific humanism. Harper and Brothers unknown
1912Best.-Nr. 1578Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1912. First edition. INTRODUCTION OF THE "ARMS RACE" METAPHOR FOR COEVOLUTIONARY ADVANCES--BY A FOUNDER OF THE MODERN SYNTHESIS. 12x17 cm hardcover red cloth binding illustrated title to cover frontis figure of Volvox i-ix 3 167 pp 4 pp publisher's book list. Spine faded binding tight text clean and unmarked very good in custom archival mylar cover. Cited in Reiss & Ruse The New Biology 2023: "The inevitability of biological progress became the leitmotif of all of Huxley's subsequent writings despite the fact that he tried to remain at least in part true to Darwinian mechanism. In The Individual in the Animal Kingdom 1912 he drew an interesting cultural-biological analogy using the turn-of-the-century naval arms race between Britain and Germany as the example. First the cultural: "Halfway through the century when guns had doubled and trebled their projectile capacity up sprang the 'Merrimac' and the 'Monitor secure in their iron breast-plates; and so the duel has gone on". Concluding: "Each advance in attack has brought forth as if by magic a corresponding advance in defence" Then the biological: "With life it has been the same: if one species happens to vary in the direction of greater independence the inter-related equilibrium is upset and cannot be restored until a number of competing species have either given way to the increased pressure and become extinct or else have answered pressure with pressure". Adding: "So it comes to pass that the continuous change which is passing through the organic world appears as a succession of phases of equilibrium each one on a higher average plane of independence than the one before and each inevitably calling up and giving place to one still higher." Cambridge University Press hardcover books
