Thomas H HuxleyABAA
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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 books
ref. 1677642681Doubleday Doran & Company. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Volume 1 only Signed by H.G. Wells Jullian Huxley and C.P. Wells. Moderate wear to the boards. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. This could have light cosmetic flaws but remains in good condition. No dust jacket included with this book. The book is signed by Author. This copy is the Limited Edition of the published work. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover
1997ref. x-0801433738Ilr Pr 1997. Hardcover. New. 249 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches. Ilr Pr hardcover
1937ref. BB2431New York: The Museum of Modern Art 1937. First Printing. Card Covers. Fine-. One of 2750 copies printed by the Spiral Press with notes by Kauffer on technique and foreword by Aldous Huxley of this catalog for an exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art from February 10 to March 7 1937. Royal 8vo 254 x 191mm: 24pp including 12 highlights on 9 black-and-white plates from the exhibit of 85 posters designed by Kauffer for London Underground Great Western Railways Shell and other English clients. Stapled illustrated card covers screen-printed in French blue black and grey. About Fine with minute wear to lower front cover edge else virtually pristine. Scarce. Kauffer moved to London at the start of the First World War and is probably best remembered for the 140 posters he created for London Underground later London Transport in many styles showing influences of futurism cubism and vorticism as well as impressionism and Japanese woodcuts. Why Huxley was chosen to contribute the very brief rather incoherent forward Kauffer painted Huxley's garden in Aix-en-Provence the year before this exhibition would be interesting to know. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. The Museum of Modern Art unknown
1913ref. 981Y14London: Smith Elder and Co. 1913. Cloth. Good. 9.5" by 7". Not Stated . An early edition of this profusely illustrated work on Captain Robert Falcon Scott's last expedition. The second edition published the same year as the first.Complete in two volumes. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Volume I comprises Scott's journals and Volume II comprises the reports and scientific work undertaken by Dr. E. A. Wilson and the expedition's surviving members. Arranged by Leonard Huxley with a preface by Sir Clements R. Markham. Captain Robert Falcon Scott was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two major expeditions to the Antarctic regions known as the Discovery expedition of 1901-04 and the Terra Nova expedition of 1910-13 the latter of which this work covers. Copiously illustrated throughout including photogravure frontispieces eighteen colour plates three double-page plates six further photogravure plates and eight folding maps.Collated complete. In the original cloth binding. Externally with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Backstrip to Vol I has a tear running down the tail of the spine. Marks to the cloth more so to Vol I. Slight fading to the spines. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with scattered spotting of varying degrees throughout. Offsetting to the endpapers. Good Smith, Elder and Co. hardcover
ref. 56255677-75Taylor & Francis Group. Used - Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Taylor & Francis Group unknown
1996ref. BN396291DharmaGaia 1996. 1996. Brány vnímání Brány vnímání Aldous Huxley DharmaGaia unknown
1987ref. x-0714633100Frank Cass & Co 1987. Hardcover. New. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. Frank Cass & Co hardcover
1877ref. 024118London: Macmillan. First Edition. Original red cloth. On a fairly large slip of paper tipped in on the verso of the front free endpaper are two lines of handwriting. The first is the name "Edward B. Tyler" ostensibly the notable anthropologist who wrote "Primitive Culture" and "Anthropology." The second is "From the author." The second line of handwriting does look like Huxley's. The second doesn't seem to look like either Huxley's or Tylor's. The book contains three lectures on evolution an address on the occasion of the opening of Johns Hopkins University and a lecture on the study of biology. Minor corner bumps slight wear at the head and foot of the spine Very Good Minus. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1877. Macmillan hardcover
ref. SONG1138432334Routledge 2017-08-02. 1. hardcover. Used: Good. 9.57x0.39x6.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Routledge hardcover
1954ref. 1728565585ALKChatto & Windus 1954. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1954. First Edition. 62 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Bookseller stamp to rear pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Visible tanning to spine and edges with some crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss heavy tears chips and creasing. Pencil marking to bottom of front flap. Faint staining to rear panel. Light tanning overall. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1956ref. 914P19London: Chatto & Windus 1956. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5.5". None. The first edition of this brilliant anthology of essays by Aldous Huxley from the library of Brian Aldiss. The first edition first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.From the library of Brian Aldiss with his signature to the recto of the front endpaper and a note loosely inserted regarding the provenance from his daughter Wendy Aldiss. Aldiss was a popular English science fiction author an influential writer of the twentieth century. One of his short stories 'Supertoys Last All Summer Long' was the basis for the Stanley Kubrick - Steven Spielberg 2001 film 'A. I. Artificial Intelligence'. He was part of the British New Wave of sci-fi and was greatly influenced by H. G. Wells.Review copy with publisher's slip loosely inserted with Aldiss' pencil notes on this work loosely inserted.Restaurant receipt loosely inserted. A collection of seventeen curious essays by Aldous Huxley in which he is explores various philosophical topics. Including 'The Education of an Amphibian' 'Knowledge and Understanding' 'The Desert' 'Ozymandias' 'Liberty Quality Machinery' and many others. In the original publisher"s cloth binding in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally smart. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Brian Aldiss" signature to the recto of the front endpaper. Dust wrapper is lightly edge worn and age-toned. A few light marks to the wraps. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine Chatto & Windus hardcover
1982ref. 42828PANTHER BOOKS 1982. 14. softcover. PANTHER BOOKS paperback
1954ref. 1762930656ABSChatto & Windus 1954. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1954. Second Impression March 1954. 62 pages. Blue pictorial jacket over light blue covered boards and gilt title to spine. Previous owner name inked to FFP dated 1954. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Heavier tanning and foxing to FFP. Speckled staining to text block edge text unaffected. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Small stain to front board. Mild crushing to spine ends with moderate sunning.Gilt lettering is slightly darkened but clear. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with tears and creasing. No apparent loss. Very mild sunning to spine. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1883ref. 007341LONDON: WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS LIMITED 1883. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. Scarce in first edition. Front board and up to page 5 of first book detached cloth missing from rear board. Boards rubbed and marked spine darkened fore edge foxed Albert Harrison bookplate to front pastedown prelims lightly foxed pencil inscriptions to some margins on some of the books otherwise clean throughout. Good rebinding copy. Full list of titles and authors in order of appearance as follows: Inaugural Meeting Of The Fishery Congress By H.R.H. The Prince Of Wales Fish Diseases By Professor Huxley The Destruction Of Fish And Other Aquatic Animals By Internal Parasites By T. Spencer Cobbold Fish As Food By Henry Thompson Food Of Fishes By F. Day Fish Culture By Francis Day The Natural History And Cultivation Of The Sole By W. Houghton Propagation Of The Salmonidae By W. Oldham Chambers The Propagation Of Freshwater Fish Excluding Salmonidae By W. Oldham Chambers Crustaceans Bt Thomas Cornish; Artificial Culture Of Lobsters By W. Saville Kent Molluscs Mussels Whelks Etc. Used For Food Or Bait By Mr. Charles Harding Oyster Culture And Oyster Fisheries In The Netherlands By Professor Hubrecht Notes On The Food Fishes And Edible Mullosca Of New South Wales By E. P. Ramsay Seal Fisheries By Captain Temple The Scientific Results Of The Exhibition By Professor E. Ray Lankester WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS LIMITED hardcover
1880ref. 32971London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. Very Good. 1880. Limited Signed Edition. Hardback. Please note that this is a heavy item and may require extra postage for international shipping.; First edition this is copy no. 55 of an edition limited to 250 large paper copies signed by the publisher Jonathan Miller's copy with his signature to first blank publisher's original brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine bevelled boards chipping & wear to spine ends minor rubbing to boards frontis engraving loose with 81 in-text illustrations binding firm. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 371 pages . C. Kegan Paul & Co. hardcover
1935ref. mon0001536043John Murray 1935. Hardcover. Good. . Hardback. No dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription. Slight rubbing and staining to cover. Slight tanning to pages. Hinges good. Binding firm. Text is clear. Pull out expedition map in good condition. John Murray hardcover
1938ref. 031975UK 1938. First Edition . Paper. Very Good. 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall. Two Original Handwritten and Signed Zoological Society Letters by Sir Julian Huxley to Philip Morrell regarding and discussing the Death of His Wife and Friend Lady Ottoline Morrell. Dated 1938. Sir Julian Huxley 1887 - 1975 was an English evolutionary biologist eugenicist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth-century modern synthesis. He was secretary of the Zoological Society of London 1935-1942 the first director of UNESCO a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund the president of the British Eugenics Society 1959-1962 and the first president of the British Humanist Association. Size is 200mm x 160mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Ref19334 unknown
1917ref. 881Oxford: B. H. Blackwell 1917. First edition. Good. Publisher's original pictorial paper-covered boards paper title on upper panel with black cloth spine. Cover design by C. W. Beaumont. viii 9 - 117 3 pp.; publisher's two page list. Price label on front panel ownership signature F. Bridges / 1918 on front free endpaper; covers soiled and worn edges of boards nicked in several places internally clean solid and unmarked a good or better copy. First edition. Limited to 500 copies the scarce second volume in the influential Wheels anthology series edited by Edith Sitwell. This volume marks a key early literary appearance of Aldous Huxley contributing nine poems prior to his rise as a major novelist alongside significant work by the Sitwell siblings-Edith Osbert and Sacheverell; Iris Tree Sherard Vines and Helen Rootham. It also features a poignant posthumous war poem "The Mad Soldier" by E. W. Tennant who was killed at the Somme in 1916. FIFOOT EA2. Eschelbach & Shober 61. Gallup B2. B. H. Blackwell unknown
1974ref. BN176787Bloomsbury 3PL 1974. 1974. Hardcover. Jesting Pilate Jesting Pilate Aldous Huxley Bloomsbury 3PL hardcover
19742 vols., 8vo., Third Impression thus, with 2 portrait frontispieces, map in the text and 4 large folding maps; green cloth, gilt backs, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly age-marked dustwrapper. The set comprises: Vol. I: 1870-1914; Vol. II: 1914-1931. Huxley's first published work is a classic of Kenyan, indeed of East African, history. First issued by Macmillan in 1935, it was an immediate success - the 'Kenya Weekly News' urged its readers to buy the book 'even though it costs the equivalent of 8 sacks of maize'. It was re-issued by Chatto & Windus in 1953 and then again in 1968 with an important new Preface. This is the third impression thus. SCARCE IN ANY IMPRESSION, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. See Cross & Perkin A1(d).
1954ref. mon0000997195Chatto & Windus 1954. Hardback. Very Good. in x in x in. 2nd impression March 1954. Some small nicks to edges of jacket. Pages clean and bright no markings light wear to edges. Binding tight. rnIn removable protective plastic jacket. One small tear to bottom of jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1863ref. 54344NY: D. Appleton & Company. 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. First American edition. Original brown cloth spine label. Fray to spine ends label slightly chipped and tanned; splitting of cloth at outer hinges but joints holding light corner wear. Small PO plate. Small corner loss to ffep.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1506 pages . D. Appleton & Company hardcover
1947ref. 160973Universal City: Universal-International 1947. Vintage reference photograph of director Zoltán Korda talking with producer and head of Universal-International William Goetz on the set of the 1948 film noir. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Aldous Huxley's 1922 short story "The Gioconda Smile" about an unfaithful husband who is wrongly charged with the murder of his first wife. 8 x 10 inches. Slightly curled else Near Fine. Selby US. Spicer US. Universal-International unknown
1947ref. 160973Universal City: Universal-International 1947. Vintage reference photograph of director Zoltán Korda talking with producer and head of Universal-International William Goetz on the set of the 1948 film noir. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Aldous Huxley's 1922 short story "The Gioconda Smile" about an unfaithful husband who is wrongly charged with the murder of his first wife. 8 x 10 inches. Slightly curled else Near Fine. Selby US. Spicer US. Universal-International unknown books
