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1929ref. 035645London: The Fleuron Ltd 1929. Book. Illus. by Albert Rutherston. Very Good. Hardcover. 109th of 300 copies. 9"x11". 64pp Brown boards gilt lettering.Slightly worn boards bumped corners. With gilted front and spineThis is a limited numbered edition of 300 copies this being #109. Huxley contrasts the traditional Christian views with those emerging from Romanticism arguing for a more scientific understanding of human relationships. His essays also challenge established notions about nature and morality as seen in his reflections on Wordsworth and the idealization of the natural world. By engaging with the works of authors like Dickens and D.H. Lawrence Huxley demonstrates a keen awareness of the complexities of human experience and the often conflicting paradigms that shape it. . The Fleuron Ltd Hardcover
1999ref. 24575NY: Macmillan Company / Grove Dictionaries Inc. 1999. First thus paperback. Paperback. VG. Set of four oversize paperbacks with minor wear except for volume one with tear to rear cover else clean no soiling to text block edges no crease to spines; internally fine -- bright paper that is clean and unmarked. Comes with the original cardboard slipcase. Heavy set will mail domestic Media Mail "standard" with NO extra shipping fees; if airmailed domestic or international will require extra postage. Please contact me with any questions. Summary:This title is designed as an accessible scholarly resource with practical information for gardeners. It encompasses a vast range of plants grown on a domestic or commercial scale in private gardens or present in specialist and botanical collections. Macmillan Company / Grove Dictionaries, Inc. paperback
1918ref. COLLECTI011793ILONDON: OXFORD/ B. H. BLACKWELL . NEAR VERY GOOD IN STIFF WRAPS . PUB JUNE 1918. FIRST EDITION. PAPERBACK. AUTHOR 3RD PUBLISHED BOOK / 1 OF 250 COPIES ESCHELBACH AND SHOBER . CARD COVERS WITH GREEN AND WHITE DECORATED PAPER COVERS AND PAPER SPINE LABELS TO THE SPINE AND FRONT COVER. THIS COPY IS MISSING THE NARROW PAPER SPINE LABEL WITH MODERATE WEAR AND RUBBING TO THE SPINE SPINE EDGES AND CORNERS AND A NARROW 1/8"DEEP PIECE CHIPPED OFF THE REAR FORE-EDGE CORNER. STILL A NICE COPY OF THIS SCARCE AND FRAGILE BOOKLET. . OXFORD/ B. H. BLACKWELL paperback
1938ref. 527593New York: Wiley Book Co 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Note by Jean Videpoche. Small quarto. 55pp. 30 reproductions in black and white and six plates in full color. Sunning to the top of the front board and toning to the spine else near fine in a very good or better dust jacket with creasing to the bottom of the front panel sunning to the spine a small ink mark on the rear flap and rubbing. Wiley Book Co hardcover
1930ref. 12895London: C&W 1930. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Edges of the boards a trifle soiled still about fine in very good plus dustwrapper with a bit of darkening to the spine and extremities and some light chipping at the crown. A nice copy of a fragile little volume. C&W hardcover
1936ref. 14942London: The Peace Pledge Union. Fine. ca. 1936. Pamphlet. An attractive Peace Pledge Union publication undated however published in 1936 and following the earlier and more common Chatto and Windus and Harper & Brothers edition. Yellow stapled wrappers in beautiful Fine condition staples slightly rusty but firm. Not listed in Eschelbach/Shober; Author and Brave New World novelist Aldous Huxley pacifist and member of The Peace Pledge Union states his case and counters 12 typical pro-war arguments making an attempt "to provide who feel that war is an abomination all who will that it shall cease with an intellectual justification for their attitude" from the introduction ; 8vo; 36 pages . The Peace Pledge Union unknown
1938ref. 527593New York: Wiley Book Co 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Note by Jean Videpoche. Small quarto. 55pp. 30 reproductions in black and white and six plates in full color. Sunning to the top of the front board and toning to the spine else near fine in a very good or better dust jacket with creasing to the bottom of the front panel sunning to the spine a small ink mark on the rear flap and rubbing. Wiley Book Co hardcover books
1930ref. 12895London: C&W 1930. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Edges of the boards a trifle soiled still about fine in very good plus dustwrapper with a bit of darkening to the spine and extremities and some light chipping at the crown. A nice copy of a fragile little volume. C&W hardcover books
ref. 0262513668.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. 6102489825Read Books UK . Hardback. New. pp. 342 Read Books (UK) hardcover
ref. 466635Harper and Brothers. Hardcover. Good. Dust jacket faded creased and torn. Endpapers tanned and a few pencil underlinings. Harper and Brothers hardcover
ref. 466885Penguin Books. Paperback. Good. A good used copy. Penguin Books paperback
ref. 250324Second impression. London Chatto & Windus 1932. 306 pp. Publisher’s blue cloth. . hardcover
1934ref. 524Original complete volume of Life and Letters for April 1934. Good complete condition with marks to covers and loss of paper covering to lower 1.5cm of spine. Includes the rare first appearance of Wyndham Lewis' influential critique of Ernest Hemingway's life and work "The Dumb Ox" later reprinted in 'The American Review' for June 1934 and subsequently published in the book 'Men Without Art'; "Wars and Emotions" by Aldous Huxley "An Irish Schooling" by Sean O'Faolain "The Living Poem" by Herbert Palmer "The Dumb Ox : A Study of Ernest Hemingway" by Wyndham Lewis "Saturnina's Destiny" by Jenny Ballou "Nine London Pictures" by G.W Stonier "An Experiment with Rhyme" by Bonamy Dobree "Growing Like a Tree" by Eric Linklater "The Nuncio : a poem" by Herbert Read "The Burning Cactus : a story" by Stephen Spender "The Land Without Heroes" by G.F Green Reviews Advertisements etc Constable and Co Ltd / Life & Letters paperback
1963ref. mon0000992342Chatto & Windus 1963. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. First edition Pages clean and bright Binding firm Light wear to edges Dust jacket unclipped Removable plastic cover to dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1955ref. mon0000991254Chatto & Windus 1955. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. First edition Second Impression Pages clean and bright Binding firm Light wear to edges Dust jacket price clipped. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1955ref. mon0000997197Chatto & Windus 1955. Hardback. Very Good. in x in x in. Contains previous owners name in pen on FFEP. Some rubbing to edges of jacket. First edition first printing. Pages clean and bright no markings light wear to edges. Binding tight. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1950ref. 1780648131ADAChatto & Windus 1950. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 1950. Fourth impression. 358 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brick red cloth. Pages with some foxing and tanning particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Small bookshop label to front pastedown. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Some mild rubbing and marking to surfaces. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1987ref. 854T48London: Chatto & Windus 1987. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9.5" by 8". Francesca Pelizzoli. A very smart first illustrated edition of this classic story of an African childhood in the years before the First World War. First illustrated edition. Illustrated in colour throughout with frontispiece twenty-eight full page illustrations and many in-text images and photographs. Collated complete. A collection of memories from a childhood spent in British East Africa. Written by Elspeth Huxley an English writer journalist broadcaster magistrate environmentalist farmer and government adviser. Illustrated by Francesca Pelizzoli an artist and illustrator. In the original grey cloth binding. Externally excellent with light shelf wear only. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also excellent with light shelf wear to the extremities. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine Chatto & Windus hardcover
1970ref. 1781265315IEVChatto & Windus 1970. Hardcover. Good. 1970. Reprinted. 315 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Green cloth. Black and white photographic frontispiece with pull-out maps through book. Flat signed by author to title page. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Creasing to some pages. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1951ref. C60634London: Sheffington 1951. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 176. Original publisher's tan cloth with silver lettering at spine. Signed presentation from the author on the first blank page to Princess Alice Duchess of Gloucester 1901Ã2004 ""The Duchess of Gloucester with love from Genesta."" Bookplate of Princess Alice on the front pastedown. Slight shelf-wear otherwise very good indeed. Excellent condition. Sheffington, hardcover
1908ref. 005320London: Macmillan 1908 Books measure 19x13cm 463pp 476 501. Bound in original publishers cloth with gilt title lettering. Bindings with little wear rubbed corners. Bindings in very good clean condition. Internally pages clean near fine. A very good clean set. Macmillan hardcover
1878ref. 15002Macmillan 1878. 8vo. Second Edition Ninth Thousand with a double-page coloured map as frontispiece a coloured plate 2 coloured maps one double-page; one full-page and 122 engraved illustrations in the text neat contemporary inscription on half-title; original red cloth upper board framed blocked and lettered in blind gilt back yellow endpapers upper hinge starting but binding entirely sound case a little shaken else a very good clean copy. First published in 1877 this is a systematic approach to natural science presented with characteristic clarity by 'Darwin's Bulldog'. Freeman 1866 recording the first edition. Macmillan, hardcover
1993ref. 007289London: Faber and Faber Ltd. 1993. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Introduction by Sir David Attenborough. Green hardcover with title in white on spine. Condition: Good with light shelfwear to covers and some bumping to outer corner of front and rear covers with corresponding creasing to top corners of first and last few pages of text. Light vertical crease to front endpaper and first four pages. Edges of pages lightly browned throughout. Some light foxing to text. Binding sound no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good with light shelfwear more so around the outer corners of front and rear covers corresponding to bumping to cover corners previously mentioned. Loosely inserted is a short letter from Sir Peter Scott to the author Elspeth Huxley dated 13th March 1988. 361pp. 44 b/w illustrations. Faber and Faber Ltd. Hardcover
1936ref. 010073Zoological Society of London 1936. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 1936-37 bound copies in very good condition. A little foxing to inside covers. No other marks clean and bright tight binding. The green cloth boards have light shelf wear. This is a heavy item which may require additional postage. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback. Zoological Society of London hardcover