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1930rif. 540417London: Chatto & Windus 1930. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Faint scattered foxing throughout with faint foxing on foredge light crease on the spine very good in a very good dust jacket with a toned spine tiny nicks and a short tear. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1926rif. 536665New York: George H. Doran Company 1926. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Early American reprint. Maroon cloth and printed paper label. Near fine in modestly worn very good or better dust jacket with rubbing and shallow chipping at the spine ends. George H. Doran Company hardcover books
1928rif. 215811London: Chatto & Windus 1928. First British edition and first printing. Hardcover. 601 pages. One of the better novels from the author of "The Doors of Perception" and "Brave New World." A very good copy in cloth boards with some some wear and in a fair only dust jacket that has some soiling numerous chips tears and wear. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1931rif. 2222382First English edition. Octavo. Original brown cloth printed paper label. Dust jacket unclipped; some fading to spine. Very good. 63 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Extra spine label tipped-in. Printed by T. and A. Constable Ltd. Edinburgh. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1936rif. 598341London: Chatto and Windus 1936. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. 303pp. Slight offsetting on endpapers light toning on the spine and board edges near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small tears and a darkened spine. Chatto and Windus hardcover books
1931rif. 563485Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company 1931. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First American edition. Gilt spine titles. A bit sunned at the foot of the spine else near fine in good dust jacket with chipping and internal repairs mostly along the flap folds. Very scarce in jacket. Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover books
1962rif. 50075London: Chatto & Windus 1962. Fine in near fine jacket. First edition of Huxley's second memoir of her early life in Kenya under British rule a continuation of her previous THE FLAME OF THIKA. 8.5'' X 5.5''. Original rose cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped 21s dust jacket designed by Rosemary Grimble. 335 1 pages. Light foxing to endpapers and dust jacket; minor scuffing to jacket edges. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1968rif. 1911London: Jonathan Cape 1968. First edition thus. HUXLEY'S GROUNDBREAKING STUDY OF EVOLVED RITUALIZED BEHAVIOR IN SEXUAL SELECTION. 10.5x18.5 cm hardcover black cloth binding gilt title to spine 97 pp 2 2 plates. Near fine in near fine dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve. LAID IN: Retrospective review of the book in Nature 25 Sept 2014 pages 484-5. " JULIAN HUXLEY 1887–1975 was an architect of the mid-twentieth-century evolutionary synthesis that merged Darwin's ideas on natural selection with population genetics. Decades before that however he helped to pioneer the field of animal behavior with his groundbreaking work on avian ethology the 1914 Courtship Habits of the Great Crested Grebe. In it he demonstrated how detailed observations of individual birds can prompt profound biological questions and sometimes reveal the outline of the answers. Huxley and his brother Trevenen spent two weeks watching the courtship of great crested grebes Podiceps cristatus. They did so at a reservoir near the Hertfordshire town of Tring now renowned as home to the matchless bird collections of the Natural History Museum. The result was a paper published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London in 1914 and later in slightly abbreviated form as a pocket-sized book. By the month of the brothers' observations the grebes had already paired. Nevertheless male and female whose plumages are virtually identical engaged in striking behaviors such as the "cat attitude" and the "penguin dance" as Huxley colorfully labelled them. These he interpreted as necessary to bring the two birds into what he perceived as the emotional synchrony needed for coition nest-building and egg-laying. To achieve this some behaviors have undergone a gradual change from useful action to symbol to ritual. It was Huxley's landmark paper that identified this process of ritualization in animal behavior he organized a Royal Society symposium to discuss it in 1965. Huxley also realized that ritualization extended to mammals including people. With a sprinkling of references to Dante Plato and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet he digresses to muse on how human courtship so often and so predictably proceeds from hand-holding to kissing to more. More formally he realized that behaviors may be shaped by evolution." Jonathan Cape hardcover books
1963rif. 539437New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1963. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Introduction by Aldous Huxley. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with the spine lettering a bit toned. Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover books
1883rif. 1382London: Macmillan and Co. 1883. Revised edition 1st 1875. 1875 T H HUXLEY'S LABORATORY GUIDE TO BIOLOGY NEWLY COMBINED BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY. 7 inches tall hardcover red cloth binding blindstamped publisher's seal to front cover gilt title to spine black endpapers i-xi 279 pp 72-page publisher's catalogue. Spine faded otherwise unmarked and very good in custom archival mylar cover. From Preface: "Very soon after I began to teach Natural History or what we now call Biology at the Royal School of Mines some twenty years ago I arrived at the conviction that the study of living bodies is really one discipline which is divided into Zoology and Botany simply as a matter of convenience; and that the scientific Zoologist should no more be ignorant of the fundamental phenomena of vegetable life than the scientific Botanist of those of animal existence. Moreover it was obvious that the road to a sound and thorough knowledge of Zoology and Botany lay through Morphology and Physiology; and that as in the case of all other physical sciences so in these sound and thorough knowledge was only to be obtained by practical work in he laboratory." THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 1825 – 1895 was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Huxley had little formal schooling and was virtually self-taught. He became perhaps the finest comparative anatomist of the later 19th century. He worked on invertebrates clarifying relationships between groups previously little understood. Later he worked on vertebrates especially on the relationship between apes and humans. After comparing Archaeopteryx with Compsognathus he concluded that birds evolved from small carnivorous dinosaurs a belief still widely held today. The thirty-one years during which Huxley occupied the chair of natural history at the Royal School of Mines included work on vertebrate paleontology and on many projects to advance the place of science in British life. When Huxley himself was young there were virtually no degrees in British universities in the biological sciences and few courses. Most biologists of his day either were self-taught or took medical degrees. When he retired there were established chairs in biological disciplines in most universities and a broad consensus on the curricula to be followed. Huxley was the single most influential person in this transformation. Huxley was also a major influence in the direction taken by British schools: in November 1870 he was elected to the London School Board in its first elections. Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
1877rif. 622488New York: D. Appleton and Company 1877. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition. 164pp. Black and white illustrations. Some spotting on the top stain and slight wear on the board edges else near fine with previous owner pencil name on the half title page. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
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1939rif. 106592Harper & Brothers Publishers 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Stated "First Edition M-O" first U.S. edition; 356 opened pages clean and unmarked on strong paper mildly age-toned; mark on front paste down where book plate appears to have been peeled off.Binding firm; brown boards with gilt striation and tarnished gilt lettering on dark blue patches have lightly bumped corners and slight rubbing at crown and foot of spine. No d.j. but probably issued without. Harper & Brothers, Publishers hardcover
1956rif. HVD-80218-A-0New York NY: Harper & Row. Good with no dust jacket. No Edition Stated; No Printing Stated. Hardcover. 185 pages; light pencil markings in the margins of some pages. Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects.; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. . 1956. Harper & Row hardcover
1956rif. 8062846Harper & Row 1956. First Colophon. Paperback. Very Good. Some jacket wear from storage. Harper & Row paperback
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1924rif. 46174London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Original red cloth label to spine red topstain. First edition. Cloth slightly sunned endpages toned/slightly foxed. Spare label bound in at rear. Tight binding. The DJ in mylar is toned to spine foxed chipped/edgeworn. Slight pencilling to flap. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 340 pages . Chatto & Windus hardcover
1977rif. HVD-64697-A-0New York NY: Stonehill Publishing. Good with no dust jacket. 1977. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 314 pages; few faint smudges and scratches on the exterior edges of textblock. Minor shelf wear on the covers. Minor yellowing on pages. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. ; Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. . Stonehill Publishing hardcover
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1939rif. ABE-11331225873MacMillan 1939 very good in price clipped dj with small chip out of rear panel bottom of dust jacket spine missing. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. MacMillan hardcover
