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1973Best.-Nr. 12822Park Ridge N.J.: Noyes Press 1973. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 1973 First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Dust Jacket. DJ fair small creases & tears front and back. Bumped corners. Edgeworn. Pencil notes in margins throughout. Complete with all maps & plates present. Noyes Press hardcover
1918Best.-Nr. S9148London:: John Murray 1918. 1918. Two volumes. 8vo. x 2 546; vi 569 pp. Frontis. Blue cloth gilt-stamped cover ornaments gilt-stamped spine titles; recased new endpapers. Fine. First edition second printing August 1918. This two-volume is the first full-length biography of Hooker written and edited by Leonard Huxley with the assistance of Hooker's widow Lady Hyacinth Hooker. Hooker 1817-1911 British botanist was arguably the most important botanical figure of the nineteenth century. A traveler and plant-collector he was one of Charles Darwin's closest friends and eventually succeeding his father to became director of Britain's Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in 1865. Hooker was chief botanist 1839-1843 teaming with Dr. David Lyall of the Antarctic voyage on the discovery ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror the consort to Erebus; the Terror was commanded by Crozier under the command of Sir James Clark Ross visiting Madeira and the Cape of South Africa. During the voyage he also served as assistant surgeon on the Erebus. In 1848-51 he journeyed at Nepal and India collecting many specimens preserved at Kew Gardens. See: W. B. Turrill Joseph Dalton Hooker. Botanist Explorer and Administrator London 1963. John Murray, 1918. hardcover
1918Best.-Nr. S9148London:: John Murray 1918. 1918. Two volumes. 8vo. x 2 546; vi 569 pp. Frontis. Blue cloth gilt-stamped cover ornaments gilt-stamped spine titles; recased new endpapers. Fine. First edition second printing August 1918. This two-volume is the first full-length biography of Hooker written and edited by Leonard Huxley with the assistance of Hooker's widow Lady Hyacinth Hooker. Hooker 1817-1911 British botanist was arguably the most important botanical figure of the nineteenth century. A traveler and plant-collector he was one of Charles Darwin's closest friends and eventually succeeding his father to became director of Britain's Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in 1865. Hooker was chief botanist 1839-1843 teaming with Dr. David Lyall of the Antarctic voyage on the discovery ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror the consort to Erebus; the Terror was commanded by Crozier under the command of Sir James Clark Ross visiting Madeira and the Cape of South Africa. During the voyage he also served as assistant surgeon on the Erebus. In 1848-51 he journeyed at Nepal and India collecting many specimens preserved at Kew Gardens. See: W. B. Turrill Joseph Dalton Hooker. Botanist Explorer and Administrator London 1963. John Murray, 1918. hardcover books
1936Best.-Nr. 007185Chatto & Windus 1936. Book. Fine. Cloth. First English Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy.True First Edition.Near fine Jacket.Faded At Spine.Terrific Copy. Chatto & Windus Hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 006408Chatto and Windus 1930. Book. Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in like jacket.Fresh Copy. Rare in this condition. "First Published 1930 2sNet. on flap. Excellent Copy. Chatto and Windus Hardcover
1936Best.-Nr. 007185Chatto & Windus 1936. Book. Fine. Cloth. First English Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy.True First Edition.Near fine Jacket.Faded At Spine.Terrific Copy. Chatto & Windus Hardcover books
1930Best.-Nr. 006408Chatto and Windus 1930. Book. Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in like jacket.Fresh Copy. Rare in this condition. "First Published 1930 2sNet. on flap. Excellent Copy. Chatto and Windus Hardcover books
1926Best.-Nr. 28937New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1926. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1926. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth printed paper title cards mounted to front cover and spine in original brown dust jacket printed in red; xii427pp. Light wear and chipping at jacket margins spine panel a shade toned and lightly dampstained corners bumped else Very Good and sound. Includes short stories by Stella Benson Aldous Huxley D.H. Lawrence and Liam O'Flaherty among many others. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown
1926Best.-Nr. 28937New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1926. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1926. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth printed paper title cards mounted to front cover and spine in original brown dust jacket printed in red; xii427pp. Light wear and chipping at jacket margins spine panel a shade toned and lightly dampstained corners bumped else Very Good and sound. Includes short stories by Stella Benson Aldous Huxley D.H. Lawrence and Liam O'Flaherty among many others. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown books
Best.-Nr. PRINT14JT0058Wilhelm Roux Archiv fur Entwicklungsmechanik der Organismen 133 Band 4 Heft. Pamphlet. Collectible; Very Good. First edition. Prompt shipment with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Offprint. Reprinted from Wilhelm Roux Archiv fur Entwicklungsmechanik der Organismen 133 Band 4 Heft. First separate edition. Offprint. Original wrappers. Wilhelm Roux Archiv fur Entwicklungsmechanik der Organismen, 133 Band, 4 Heft unknown
1939Best.-Nr. 312393New York: Harper & Bros 1939. First American edition. iv 356 pp. 8vo. Original orange-brown cloth dust jacket. Some shelfwear to jacket very good. First American edition. iv 356 pp. 8vo. Harper & Bros hardcover
1933Best.-Nr. H38359New York: Modern Library 1933. First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 12mo dark brown "balloon cloth" gilt near fine copy in very good plus dust jacket with lightest wear and general light darkening and soil. Stated First Modern Library edition with Kent endpapers and jacket with six masks. See Toledano 2nd ed. pp. 48-49. Modern Library hardcover
1934Best.-Nr. COLLECTI006907INEW YORK NY: HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS. VG/VG. PUB 1934. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. BOOK IS IN VERY NICE SHAPE BUT GILT DESIGN AND TITLES ON THE SPINE ANDFRONT COVER ARE DULLED. D.J. IS WORN AT THE CORNERS WITH SHALLOWCHIPPING AT THE ENDS OF THE SUNNED AND FADED SPINE PANEL A NUMBER OFSHORT EDGE TEARS A SMALL HOLE ON THE FRONT SPINE EDGE A SMALL HOLE ONTHE REAR PANEL AND PRICE-CLIPPED. A VERY NICE CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY ANDA PRESENTABLE EXAMPLE OF THE VERY FRAGILE DUST WRAPPER. Keywords: TRAVEL MEXICO INVISIBLE ABCDEF. HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 018649New York: Harper & Brothers. Toning on inside front cover and ffep where a piece of paper had been. Brave New WorldClipped DJ in archival cover chips toning. . Fine. Hardcover. 1946. Harper & Brothers. hardcover
1929Best.-Nr. 49663London: Chatto & Windus 1929. First edition. In this book Huxley predicts that Karl Marx's Proletariat become "a bourgeoisie with oily instead of inky fingers"; compares the first motion picture in which spoken dialogue is heard "The Jazz Singer" to a "brimming bowl of hog-wash"; and postulates that "monotheism has lost the value which circumstances once gave it. It lacks political utility and to the individual it is a poison." Cloth covers a little soiled thin crease production error along the back cover and corners a little bumped otherwise very good; in very good to near fine slightly soiled cream-colored dust jacket with only minor shelfwear and rear flap fold nicked at top. Chatto & Windus unknown
Best.-Nr. 3660LONDON CHATTO 1924. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. LONDON, CHATTO, 1924 unknown
1923Best.-Nr. 55191London: Chatto & Windus 1923. First edition. Twenty-seven notes and essays by Huxley. The book has offset on end papers otherwise very good in dust jacket with light chipping on corners and spine ends. Chatto & Windus unknown
Best.-Nr. 897Slight spine lean minor wear with light hinge breaks at pages 161 and 176. Very good. CDK-897. Aldous Huxley. Point Counter Point. London: Chatto & Windus 1928. First British edition. Octavo. 601pp. Publisher's red cloth spine lettered in gilt red top-stain. . . unknown
1928Best.-Nr. 7404London: Chatto & Windus 1928. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original orange cloth lacking dust jacket. Very minor shelf wear to bottom of spine and boards else fine. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. NCBEL IV 610. NCBEL IV 610 Chatto & Windus hardcover
1927Best.-Nr. 540414London: Chatto & Windus 1927. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. xix 299pp. Green cloth with gilt spine. Foredge trifle foxed with slight foxing on some pages light bumping at the foot of the spine near fine in a very good or better dust jacket with tiny chips and tears and a modestly toned spine. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1925Best.-Nr. 2393Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1925. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. Author John Bowles copy with his name and date on front free endpaper. 63pp Bound in decorative paper covered boards paper spine label couple of chips to spine; light foxing on some leaves. In all a very good copy. Basil Blackwell hardcover
Best.-Nr. dola3032London: Chatto & Windus 1954. First Edition Third Impression. 12mo. pp. 62 2. cloth bit spotted a bit musty. dola3032 London: Chatto & Windus, 1954 hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 75471930. HUXLEY ALDOUS. Brief Candles. New York: The Fountain Press 1930. 6 320 2 p. Cloth. Very good. One of 842 numbered copies signed by Huxley. unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 538663London: Chatto & Windus 1937. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 355pp. Red cloth with spine gilt. Just about fine in a soiled very good dust jacket with a tiny chip and a couple of short tears and a moderately toned spine. Essays on war religion nationalism and ethics. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 3660LONDON CHATTO 1924. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. LONDON, CHATTO, 1924 unknown books
