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ref. 8567Garden City N.Y. : Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1929. Hardcover in original paperboard slipcase. 8vo 9.5" x 6.5" white cloth gilt black leather title label at spine. 44 pp. three wood-engravings. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown. CONDITION: Very good spine sunned cover toned text and engravings crisp and clean; good slipcase worn and rubbed at extremities toned some spotting. Limited to 369 copies signed by Huxley this copy number 98. With illustrations by Eric Gill. REFERENCES: Rowman & Littlefield 282. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929 unknown
1955ref. 11758London: Chatto & Windus 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on ffep to Oliver Sacks: "To Ol with love Tony." 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. Folding chipping and loss to upper/lower spine on dj staining to cloth evenly toned minimal shelfwear else very tight bright and unmarred. Blue cloth boards. 8vo. 127pp. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1928ref. 33801Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz 1928. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz 1928. Copyright edition. Hardcover. Fine. Collection of British Authors Tachnitz edition vol. 4816. 350 pages. Size: 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" Gilt-stamped with raised bars on half polished black calf over marbled endpapers in pinks and greens and browns outside and inside. Some edgewear of course. A delightful edition with a beautifully inscribed poem by the owner that was originally written by Keats in dedication to Leigh Hunt Esq. in 1815 upon Hunt's release from prison on the FFE. in 1815 "And I shall ever bless my destiny That in a time when under pleasant trees Pan is no longer sought I feel a free A leafy luxury seeing I could please With these poor offerings a man like thee. Dedication. To Leigh Hunt Esq. D to D 7/21/34" A lovely keepsake. Bernhard Tauchnitz unknown
1926ref. 498873London: Chatto and Windus 1926. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 272pp. Faint stain on rear cover and fore-edge of text block thus a very good copy in very good spine-toned and overall age-toned dust jacket. Chatto and Windus hardcover
1923ref. 014905London: Chatto and Windus 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine/Fair/Good. 8vo. 328pp. Sharp True First Edition bound in yellow cloth with titles in red upon a white paper spine label. Square tight and clean throughout save some fairly minor page edge toning. Wear to spine ends and edges. Board edges toning. Mild off-setting to end-papers. Complete unclipped though unpriced dust-jacket 7s.6d. net on spine panel has chipping and heavy toning to spine. Hinges splitting and toned. Not perfect but complete and uncommon in any condition. A solid collectable copy at a great price. Chatto and Windus hardcover books
1926ref. 13822London: Chatto & Windus 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear sunning to spine else tight bright and unmarred. Color with marbled boards gilt spine title. 8vo. viii 257pp. Signed by author on limitation pg. This is copy 623 of 650. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
ref. 8567Garden City N.Y. : Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1929. Hardcover in original paperboard slipcase. 8vo 9.5" x 6.5" white cloth gilt black leather title label at spine. 44 pp. three wood-engravings. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown. CONDITION: Very good spine sunned cover toned text and engravings crisp and clean; good slipcase worn and rubbed at extremities toned some spotting. Limited to 369 copies signed by Huxley this copy number 98. With illustrations by Eric Gill. REFERENCES: Rowman & Littlefield 282. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929 unknown books
1955ref. 11758London: Chatto & Windus 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on ffep to Oliver Sacks: "To Ol with love Tony." 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. Folding chipping and loss to upper/lower spine on dj staining to cloth evenly toned minimal shelfwear else very tight bright and unmarred. Blue cloth boards. 8vo. 127pp. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1926ref. 498873London: Chatto and Windus 1926. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 272pp. Faint stain on rear cover and fore-edge of text block thus a very good copy in very good spine-toned and overall age-toned dust jacket. Chatto and Windus hardcover books
1974ref. 1390285Avon CT: Limited Editions Club// The Cardavon Press 1974. First Edition First Printing Limited Edition #1050/2000. Hardcover. Octavo xxvi 237 1 pages. In Very Good condition. Contained in a Very Good condition red-orange slipcase with dark blue lettering along the spine and mild wear along the head edge. Navy blue spine with light blue lettering. Boards have mild shelving wear. Textblock has mild wear along the rear end-page a blue ink stain on the front hinge and mild wear along the edges. Signed by Mara McAfee on the publisher's limitation page limited edition #1050/2000. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1390285. Special Collections - Downstairs. Limited Editions Club// The Cardavon Press hardcover books
1992ref. 06051scsLondon: Macmillan 1992. Four Volumes. Quarto cloth lviii 815 pp viii 747 pp vii 888 pp. Illus. maps. Former-owner embossed stamps; otherwise Fine. Macmillan, [1992]. Four Volumes. hardcover
1992ref. 06051scsLondon: Macmillan 1992. Four Volumes. Quarto cloth lviii 815 pp viii 747 pp vii 888 pp. Illus. maps. Former-owner embossed stamps; otherwise Fine. Macmillan, [1992]. Four Volumes. hardcover books
1954ref. D20699London: Chatto and Windus 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth in lightly worn pictorial dustwrapper. A fine association copy INSCRIBED by Elspeth Huxley to American born conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin. Martin settled in Kenya as an adult and spent the balance of his life there courageously fighting on behalf of the elephant and the rhinoceros and the illegal trading of ivory and rhinoceros horns. Chatto and Windus hardcover
1941ref. D20698London: Penns in the Rocks Press by William Collins of London 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Original decorated cloth. With twelve plates in color and seventeen illustrations in black and white. Some light foxing but a nice copy with a superb association: INSCRIBED by Elspeth Huxley to American born conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin. Martin settled in Kenya as an adult and spent the balance of his life there courageously fighting on behalf of the elephant and the rhinoceros and the illegal trading of ivory and rhinoceros horns. Penns in the Rocks Press by William Collins of London hardcover
1959ref. 67066London: Chatto & Windus 1959. Second Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Good . 288pp. Octavo 22 cm Green paper over boards. The spine and boards show light edgewear. The front free endpaper has the partial remains of a previous owner's bookplate. In the dust jacket designed by Rosemary Grimble with a loss from the paper at the foot of the spine and the surrounding area of the rear panel and a few lesser tears to the extremities. Huxley's account of her childhood in Africa amongst the Kikuyu during the years just before the First World War. From the personal collection of Nelson Algren with his signature and his trademark drawing of a cat in yellow and black on the front free endpaper. Algren grew up in Chicago a city that he would make famous through his portrayals of its poor working and criminal classes. His affinity for the marginalized sections of American society marked his entire career. Algren won the 1950 National Book Award for The Man With the Golden Arm. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1954ref. D20699London: Chatto and Windus 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth in lightly worn pictorial dustwrapper. A fine association copy INSCRIBED by Elspeth Huxley to American born conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin. Martin settled in Kenya as an adult and spent the balance of his life there courageously fighting on behalf of the elephant and the rhinoceros and the illegal trading of ivory and rhinoceros horns. Chatto and Windus hardcover books
1941ref. D20698London: Penns in the Rocks Press by William Collins of London 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Original decorated cloth. With twelve plates in color and seventeen illustrations in black and white. Some light foxing but a nice copy with a superb association: INSCRIBED by Elspeth Huxley to American born conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin. Martin settled in Kenya as an adult and spent the balance of his life there courageously fighting on behalf of the elephant and the rhinoceros and the illegal trading of ivory and rhinoceros horns. Penns in the Rocks Press by William Collins of London hardcover books
1959ref. 67066London: Chatto & Windus 1959. Second Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Good . 288pp. Octavo 22 cm Green paper over boards. The spine and boards show light edgewear. The front free endpaper has the partial remains of a previous owner's bookplate. In the dust jacket designed by Rosemary Grimble with a loss from the paper at the foot of the spine and the surrounding area of the rear panel and a few lesser tears to the extremities. Huxley's account of her childhood in Africa amongst the Kikuyu during the years just before the First World War. From the personal collection of Nelson Algren with his signature and his trademark drawing of a cat in yellow and black on the front free endpaper. Algren grew up in Chicago a city that he would make famous through his portrayals of its poor working and criminal classes. His affinity for the marginalized sections of American society marked his entire career. Algren won the 1950 National Book Award for The Man With the Golden Arm. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1932ref. 2361New York & London: Harper and Brothers 1932. First American Edition. Near fine/Near fine. 8vo 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches 206 x 138 mm; vii 142 pp. Publisher's linen cloth red paper spine title label. Original yellow and red dust jacket unclipped housed in a protective sleeve. Pages clean and lightly toned; binding square and tight with very light soiling to cloth. Dust jacket well-preserved and unclipped. A notably attractive copy. First American edition of this incisive work by evolutionary biologist and influential public intellectual Julian Huxley documenting his 1931 visit to the Soviet Union at a critical juncture in its scientific and ideological consolidation. With a keen analytical eye Huxley assesses Soviet advances and tensions in biology education and social planning offering one of the more perceptive contemporary Western appraisals of Soviet scientific culture in the interwar period. A desirable and collectible example of Huxley's lesser-encountered travel and scientific commentary seldom found in such well-preserved original dust jacket. Harper and Brothers unknown
1878ref. 216274New York: Appleton 1878. hardcover. very good. Illustrated. 8vo 3/4 tan calf marbled boards marbled edges ornately gilt spine with red and green leather labels. New York: Appleton 1878. Very good . A textbook which is a little masterpiece of its kind. Huxley never accepted without qualification the Darwinian principle. He thought "transmutation may take place without transition" and thereby anticipated the findings of modern research. He liberated the English anatomical school from the deductive method and sounded the keynote of the social medicine of the future. - Garrison-Morton 338; Casey Wood p. 396. Appleton unknown
1878ref. 216274New York: Appleton 1878. hardcover. very good. Illustrated. 8vo 3/4 tan calf marbled boards marbled edges ornately gilt spine with red and green leather labels. New York: Appleton 1878. Very good . A textbook which is a little masterpiece of its kind. Huxley never accepted without qualification the Darwinian principle. He thought "transmutation may take place without transition" and thereby anticipated the findings of modern research. He liberated the English anatomical school from the deductive method and sounded the keynote of the social medicine of the future. - Garrison-Morton 338; Casey Wood p. 396. Appleton unknown books
ref. FORT644395John Murray. Used - Acceptable. Two volume set. Volumes I and II. Both published in 1914. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on fronts and spines. John Murray hardcover
1913ref. 76221Smith Elder & Co. 1913. Hardcover . Good/No Jacket. Two volumes. Blue cloth over boards. Bright gilt lettering on front boards spines. Some spotting on covers and discoloration/wear on spines. Edges are foxed some foxing throughout. Color and b/w plates throughout. With maps. Complete Size: 4to - over 9-3/4 - 12' tall. Smith, Elder & Co. hardcover
1964ref. 202G4103New York: The New York Times & Arno Press 1964. Book. Illus. by Games George; Silverstone Marilyn; Glueckselig Leo; Flora James; Burns Michael; Anderson Doug; Leone J.; Pascal David; Dean Abner. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 80 pages. Features: Cover photo of diplomatic reception at the White House; Beautiful color fashion ads; Deep Analysis of the American Mind by a British psychiatrist; The Rise and Fall of the Watusi Tutsi - Photos and article on an earlier iteration of bloodshed between the Hutu and Tutsi people of Rwanda; More Americans own shares in U.S. Corporations than ever before; Photos of a ball at the White House - with dancing photos of LBJ Mrs. Anatoly Dobrynin Dr. Janet Travell Datin Ong of Malaysia Mrs. Antonio Carrillo Flores of Mexico G. Mennen Williams Ullina Koroma Lynda Bird Dave Lefeve Lady Bird Johnson and USSR Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin; In Defense of Charles de Gaulle; Why the Girls Scream Weep Flip - photo-illustrated article; Hollywood Laughs it Up - funny photos from movies; But Where are the Chaperons; The Call Him the Greatest on Ice - Photo-illustrated article on Gordie Howe of the Detroit Redwings; Nice color-photo centerfold for Stevens Fabrics features 19 models including someone who looks a lot like Johnny Carson; Photos of fashionable bookshelves; United States Lines color-photo ad includes Hildegarde Mr. Leon Cherksey and Mrs. Reed Albee; Kids and Cops - some New York kids eye New York's finest with mixed reactions. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. The New York Times & Arno Press Paperback
1863ref. 23369New York: D. Appleton and Company 1863. Cloth. Very Good. The 1863 1st American edition. Tight and VG in its original light-brown pebbled boards with peeling and wear at the spine's paper title label all-but-unreadable and very light soiling to the panels. Internally the pages are crisp and bright but there is light staining at the inner hinges and along the edges of the pastedowns and endsheets. Octavo 150 pgs. plus publisher's ads. at the rear. Huxley's response --in the form of six lectures-- to the 1859 publication of Darwin's beyond-seminal text "the most influential scientific work of the nineteenth century D. Appleton and Company unknown