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Best.-Nr. 439376Chatto & Windus. Hardcover. Good. UK first edition of Huxley's 1962 philosophical utopian novel. The book is well maintained the cloth binding is very clean the binding is tight very little foxing to the pages. Unfortunately this copy is missing the original dust cover. Chatto & Windus hardcover
Best.-Nr. 418220Chatto & Windus. Hardcover. Good. Hardback with dust jacket in protective sleeve unclipped. Some tearing at top of dust jacket dust jacket see images. Owner inscription. Shelf wear reflecting age. A good clean copy. Chatto & Windus hardcover
2011Best.-Nr. x-0415515351Routledge 2011. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 186 pages. 9.50x6.00x0.75 inches. Routledge paperback
Best.-Nr. P15H-013081996. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Simplified edition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. 1996 unknown
Best.-Nr. 0870732064New. New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back. unknown
1925Best.-Nr. 8358New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Illustrated with portraits of the authors. Very Good in an about Near Fine jacket toned at the edges rubbed and bumped at the edges and folds. Quarter olive cloth with blue paper on the boards rubbed through at the corners. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge former owner's bookplate inside the front board clean otherwise. A collection of stories by authors who began publishing in the Georgian period. This the third volume in the series features "Little Mexican" from Aldous Huxley "The Shameless Behaviour of a Lord" by Michael Arlen "The Story of the Siren" by E.M. Forster "The Island" by L.P. Hartley among others. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
1953Best.-Nr. 018488Harper & Brothers. Stated FIrst Edition. Unclipped DJ in archival cover edge wear. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1953. Harper & Brothers. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 6032Chatto & Windus London. HB no DJ1946 1st collected edition green decorated cloth gold giltMinor Cvr Rub VG AS-IS. Chatto & Windus, London unknown
1918Best.-Nr. 2222305First edition. Octavo. Original green and white floral decorated wrappers spine label lacking. No dust jacket. Enclosed in green morocco slipcase. Good. 49 pages and two pages of ads. No signatures or bookplates. Eschelbach 19. Bromer A3. B. H. Blackwell paperback
1918Best.-Nr. 2222305First edition. Octavo. Original green and white floral decorated wrappers spine label lacking. No dust jacket. Enclosed in green morocco slipcase. Good. 49 pages and two pages of ads. No signatures or bookplates. Eschelbach 19. Bromer A3. B. H. Blackwell paperback books
Best.-Nr. 429098Chatto & Windus. Hardcover. Good. Condition Notes : Dustjacket present and in good condition though with small creases and some tears at the points where the wrap goes around the cover of the book. Dustjacket more notably damaged to top edge of spine. Very mild browning to page edges. Not price-clipped. 0.75" tear to top edge of dust jacket cover. All nicely wrapped in a protective cellophane outer wrapper that can be removed if wished.CONDITION : In Island his last novel Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where for 120 years an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala and events begin to move Chatto & Windus hardcover
1937Best.-Nr. 9163New York: Harper & Brothers 1937. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine copy in dust jacket with sunned spine edgwear and tears. Octavo; viii 386 pages. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1980Best.-Nr. SONG0586049150HarperCollins 1980-04-24. New Ed. paperback. Used: Good. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. HarperCollins paperback
1952Best.-Nr. 1773132982MHAChatto & Windus 1952. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1952. First Edition. 376 pages. Illustrated jacket priced 18s net over red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Includes several B&W illustrations. Pages have slight foxing tanning and minor thumbing. Slight gutter cracking. Binding is firm. Minor detritus in gutters. A few dog-eared corners. Text block edges are very tanned and foxed with minor scratches. Boards have some moderate edge wear with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Boards a little rubbed and marked overall. Boards are notably bowed. Book has a moderate forward lean. Gilt is bright. Unclipped jacket has some edgewear with chips tears and creasing. Small areas of loss to spine ends. Jacket is a touch rubbed and marked overall. Notable foxing and tanning to flaps and rear panel. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1929Best.-Nr. 102Wells H. G.; Huxley Julian; Wells G. P. The Science of Life: A Summary of Contemporary Knowledge About Life and its Possibilities. London: The Waverley Book Company Ltd. c.1929–1930. First Edition First Printing. Complete in three volumes. Original red cloth bindings with blind-ruled decoration to boards and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spines. An extensively illustrated landmark popular survey of contemporary biological knowledge containing numerous full-colour plates together with hundreds of drawings photographs and other illustrations. Volume I retains a Waverley Book Co. Ltd "Ex Libris" bookplate/bookmark as photographed. All three volumes present. Bindings show general age-related rubbing fading handling marks and edge/spine wear. Contents remain attractive with particularly striking period colour plates. Some internal binding/separation weakness is present as shown in the photographs. Please refer to photographs for full condition. The Waverley Book Company Ltd hardcover
1928Best.-Nr. 639898London: Chatto & Windus 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. octavo. Binding is a little loose. Boards faded w/ spine sunned. Some white marks to rear board bottom edge. Edges of text block toned and a little foxed w/ ends pulled. Endpapers unevenly toned w/ Ex-libris label to front pastedown. Dustwrapper heavily tanned and worn w/ numerous tears. Large areas of loss to spine ends w/ spine tail missing about 3x3 cm. Fair Chatto & Windus hardcover
Best.-Nr. 52164Vanity Fair. London. 1871. - EVOLUTION - Name neatly written in pencil in lower margin small tear in right margin not affecting the image biography taped to the reverse. An original coloured lithograph from 'Vanity Fair' drawn by APE Carlo Pellegrini. Vanity Fair. London. 1871. unknown
1935Best.-Nr. 69606John Murray 1935. Vol 1 lacks rear folded map. Jackets grubby and rubbed with heavy chipping and loss. Some foxing light wear a few page corners creased otherwise contents clean and tidy. Reprint. Cloth. Good/Poor. 8vo. John Murray Hardcover
1880Best.-Nr. 66862C. Keegan Paul & Co London 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition ex-library. Size: 12mo 6 3/4 - 7 3/4". xiv 371 32pp. Binding firm spine cocked and faded with wear to base and 1" split to top. Slight foxing front/rear pages but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Shadworth Hodgson's copy with ex-legato bookplate. Edges browned. Chips to lower margin of prelims. Ex-library with minimal stamps and markings Corpus Christi College Shadworth Hodgson Collection. Covers slightly marked. Corners bumped. International Scientific Series Vol. XXVIII. Contains 82 illustrations. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Natural History & Resources; Animals & Birds. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 66862. . C. Keegan Paul & Co hardcover
1944Best.-Nr. 30285New York: Harper & Brothers 1944. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very good in a good dust jacket. Several chips some fairly large. Stated first edition. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1982Best.-Nr. 187702London: Chatto & Windus 1982. First Edition; 3rd impression. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1874Best.-Nr. 8416Paris, C. Reinwald et Cie, 1874 ; in-8, demi-basane vert sapin, dos lisse, faux nerfs, auteur et titre dorés, fleurons dorés, tranches mouchetées ; (4), 442 pp. , 37 figures in-texte.
Best.-Nr. 9291Traduit de l'anglais par Jules Castier. Paris. Stock. 1933. In-12 (19x12 cms). 279 (1) pages. Broché, couverture illustrée d'une vignette.
1896Best.-Nr. 57072Paris, Felix Alcan, 1896, in-8, Front, XVI-415 pp, 2 pl. dépl, Demi-chagrin rouge, dos à faux nerfs, tranches dorées, Troisième édition revue et corrigée d'après la quatorzième édition anglaise. L'ouvrage est traduit de l'anglais et adapté par Georges Lamy (professeur au lycée Carnot et à l'Ecole coloniale). Cette introduction à l'étude de la nature est illustré de 128 gravures dans le texte et de 2 planches hors-texte. Relativement peu connu du grand public français, Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) : "naturaliste emblématique de la science victorienne" (Geslot) joua pourtant un rôle essentiel dans la défense et la diffusion de la théorie de l'évolution, ce qui lui valut le surnom de "bouledogue de Darwin". Marque de prix dorée sur une garde : "Prix offert par le Préfet de la Seine au nom du Conseil général". Légers frottements, coins un peu usés, feuillets uniformément et faiblement brunis; sinon, très bon état. Couverture rigide
Best.-Nr. 69047London Longman Brown Green Longmans & Roberts 1859. 8vo 22.2 x 14.0 cm. 27 pp. Original printed wrappers. = Rare herpetological paper by Darwin's Bulldog the zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley 1825-1895. Published in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society 413 together with several unrelated papers including two on malacology by Robert Garner On the shell-bearing Mollusca particularly with regard to the structure and form eight pp. and by Sylvanus Hanley On the Linnean manuscript of the "Museum Ulricae six pp. discussing some genera abandoned by Linnaeus. Uncut. Wrapper edges very slightly frayed the spine cover ends chipped. Internally very good clean. unknown
