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Best.-Nr. 70220Akron OH: The Werner Company. Very Good. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TEXT PRISTINE - Corresponds to ASIN: B0008822WI - ND circa 1891 . Marbled endpapers and coverboards with leather trim and binding -- with a bonus offer--; 040881; Huxley Thomas H Man's Place in Nature and Other Anthropological Essays International Science Library HUMAN ANIMAL RELATIONSHIPS EVOLUTION NATURE . 0486432734 . The Werner Company hardcover
2003Best.-Nr. 10757Mineola New York U.S.A.: Dover Pubns. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY AVOID WEEKS OF DELAY ELSEWHERE. -- clean and crisp tight and bright pages with no writing or markings to the text. -- with a bonus offer--; 010757; HUMAN ANIMAL RELATIONSHIPS EVOLUTION NATURE . 2003. 0486432734 . Dover Pubns paperback
1898Best.-Nr. 38429New York: D. Appleton & Co. . As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - 430 pages. Top fore-edge gilt. -- with a bonus offer--; T-Huxmeth; Huxley Thomas H. Method and Results : Essays . 1898. D. Appleton & Co. hardcover
1902Best.-Nr. 15325New York: P. F. Collier & Son. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - -- with a bonus offer--; 015325; Ex-Library . 1902. P. F. Collier & Son hardcover
1898Best.-Nr. 38369New York: D. Appleton & Co. . As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TEXT PRISTINE Mild cover wear else flawless. -- with a bonus offer--; T-Huxthosae; Huxley Thomas H. Science and Education : Essays By Thomas H. Huxley . 1898. D. Appleton & Co. hardcover
1986Best.-Nr. 13723Wheeling Illinois U.S.A.: Harlan Davidson. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - -- with a bonus offer--; 013723; ENGLISH ESSAYS FICTION SHORT STORIES . 1986. 0882950436 . Harlan Davidson paperback
1937Best.-Nr. 27129New York: Museum of Modern Art. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - -- with a bonus offer--; T-KAUFFER; Ex-Library . 1937. Museum of Modern Art hardcover
Best.-Nr. 37928New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - -- with a bonus offer--; H-TLorsol-FOUN; Lorenz Konrad Z.; Foreword By Huxley Julius; Translated By Wilson Marjorie Kerr; Illustrations by the Author King Solomon's Ring . 1961. 0416678807 . Thomas Y. Crowell paperback
Best.-Nr. 57649Harper Torchbooks. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Tight to the spine - 320 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . 1965. 0061303836 . Harper Torchbooks paperback
1934Best.-Nr. 27760London: Cassell & Co. . As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - -- with a bonus offer--; T-WELLS; Wells H. G.; Huxley Julian; Wells G. P. Evolution - Fact and Theory . 1934. Cassell & Co. hardcover
1932Best.-Nr. 337130London: Chatto & Windus 1932. hardcover. fine. 306 pages. Short 8vo handsomely rebound in full aqua crushed morocco ornately gilt spine. London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First Edition. Fine. Chatto & Windus unknown
1921Best.-Nr. 37736London: Chatto and Windus 1921. First Edition. Author's first novel and extremely scarce in original dustjacket. Very Good despite some nicking to cheap cloth at top spine end in dustjacket lacking top two inches of spine some loss at flap corners Chatto and Windus hardcover
1950Best.-Nr. 14076841950-1961. Other. An unnumbered pressing of an art piece by Jerome Salzmann titled "My Self-Doubt Goes On"; plus seven letters from artists and writers one of which is an inscribed photograph. The letters are dated 1950 1960 and 1961. Shelved in Room A Ephemera. Letter 1: Dated May 4 1950. From Norman Cousins who was a journalist and editor of The Saturday Review. One page TLS. On The Saturday Review stationary Cousins recommends Jerome Salzmann's work titled "Atomic Age Fables". Light age toning overall and light creasing from contemporary folding. Letter 2: Dated December 13 1960. From Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan who was Vice President of India at the time. Radhakrishnan gives encouragement to Jerome Salzmann for his work. Light age toning overall and light creasing from contemporary folding. Letter 3: Dated January 1st 1961. From British philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell. One page TLS plus the envelope. Russell apologizes for the delay in response and explains that he had been overwhelmed with correspondence since his release from prison. Light creasing from contemporary folding. Letter 4: Dated January 17 1961. From Julian Huxley English evolutionary biologist. One page TLS. Huxley rejects writing a formal letter for Salzmann who hopes to obtain a publisher. Light creasing from contemporary folding. Letter 5: Dated January 23 1961 Le 23 Janvier. From French author André Maurois. One page TLS. Text in French. Light age toning overall. Letter 6: Dated February 9th 1961. From Spanish diplomat and writer Salvador de Madariaga. One page TLS. Light age toning overall and light creasing from contemporary folding. Letter 7:Undated. From Danish author Karen Blixen. An inscribed photograph of Blixen with her cows with a hand-written note on the back. The photograph has light age toning. Jerome Salzmann is an artist and writer. He compiled an anthology on chess titled "The Chess Reader: The Royal Game in World Literature." 1407684. Special Collections - Upstairs. unknown
1931Best.-Nr. 1409501Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1931. Limited Edition #598/750. Hardcover. Octavos 4 Volumes. In Very Good condition. Bound in quarter blue cloth and blue paper boards bearing tan labels with black lettering to spines. Sunning and light soiling to spines. Labels slightly chipped. Scuffing to boards. General edges wear. Heavy rubbing to corners of boards. Top edge of textblocks gilt moderately scratched. Light soiling to fore and bottom edges of textblocks. Foxing to color plates and adjacent half title and title pages. Age toning with light smudging throughout interiors. Signed by Wells Huxley and Wells and enumerated on limitation page in front of Volume I. Shelved in Case 10. "The Science of Life" is often considered the "first modern textbook of biology." It was originally released in 31 serialized issues from 1929-1930 in the UK before being published in a three volume edition. Author H.G. Wells 1866-1946 is best known for his groundbreaking science-fiction novels including "The Invisible Man" and "The War of the Worlds." Julian Huxley 1887-1975 was an evolutionary biologist and eugenicist. G. P. Wells 1901-1985 H.G. Wells' son was an author and zoologist. Source: Wikipedia. 1409501. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc hardcover
1931Best.-Nr. 9026711Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in publisher's original dark-blue cloth with blue stripe on either side of spine and gilded top edges. H. G. Wells' signature is stamped in gilt on the cover of each volume. One of 750 numbered sets. Volume One is signed in ink by each of the three authors. The frontispiece of each volume contains a colorful illustration in a theme related to the subject matter of the work. Many detailed black-and-white illustrations of biota throughout including photographs. Hardcover Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. hardcover books
1931Best.-Nr. 9026711Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in publisher's original dark-blue cloth with blue stripe on either side of spine and gilded top edges. H. G. Wells' signature is stamped in gilt on the cover of each volume. One of 750 numbered sets. Volume One is signed in ink by each of the three authors. The frontispiece of each volume contains a colorful illustration in a theme related to the subject matter of the work. Many detailed black-and-white illustrations of biota throughout including photographs. Hardcover. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc hardcover
Best.-Nr. 357 - 855 - 659First printing of Huxley's consumerist dystopian novel in an original dust jacket Publisher and Year: London: Chatto & Windus 1932 - Edition: First edition first printing with 1932 on the bottom of the title page and no reprint stated on the copyright page later printings would be so stated in an original dust jacket retaining the price of 7s 6d on the front flap. Condition and Description: Octavo original blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and decorative borders blue topstain 306 pp. Boards well-preserved with some rubbing to the surface and edges. Tips lightly worn. Gilt bright. Spine very slightly slanted. Sturdy hinges. Secure binding though occasionally over-opened and a crack forming at pages 16 and 145. All pages securely attached. Prior owner's elegant gift inscription in ink on the front free endpaper which is dated 1932. No other writing or owner markings. Light foxing to the preliminary and terminal leaves. The jacket exhibits significant loss to the spine ends front panel and rear panel; general surface wear; crumpling to the top edge; effaced patches to the rear panel; tanning to the spine strip; and spotting on the verso and flaps. An attractive copy of the first printing book in a worn jacket that preserves most of the iconic design. "But I don't want comfort. I want God I want poetry I want real danger I want freedom I want goodness. I want sin." A defining work of dystopian literature Brave New World imagines a future where stability is purchased at the expense of individuality emotion and truth. Huxley's vision remains as unsettling as ever a critique of engineered contentment and the erasure of the human spirit. Ranked #5 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century it remains essential reading nearly a century after its publication. Inventory ID: 357 - 855 - 659 London: Chatto & Windus, 1932
Best.-Nr. 28576Oxford: B. H. Blackwell. 1919. First edition first printing. First edition first printing. Signed by the author. Inscribed presentation copy. Mid-twentieth century full tan morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe ruled in gilt to the upper and lower boards five raised bands gilt decorated compartments and titles in gilt on brown morocco labels to the spine. Marbled endpapers inner dentelles double ruled in gilt. All edges gilt. With an illustrated title page and two plates in colour from the front and rear endpapers by William Roberts. A fine copy the binding square and firm. The contents are clean throughout. Inscribed by Edith Sitwell in blue ink on the half title "For / my dear Alberto / with much love / from his friend / Edith". The recipient is the distinguished and internationally admired Portuguese poet Alberto de Lacerda 1928-2007 Edith being an early champion and one of his greatest friends. Her inscription almost certainly dates from the time of the binding which may well have been commissioned for this presentation. The volume edited and with contributions by Edith Sitwell is notable for the first publication of seven poems by fallen soldier poet Wilfred Owen. The printed dedication reads "we dedicate this book to the memory of Wilfred Owen M.C." Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell. 1919 hardcover
1923Best.-Nr. 119728London: Chatto & Windus 1923. First edition of this classic novel. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For James Murphy thirty years later Aldous Huxley 1954." Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Uncommon signed and inscribed. London life just after World War I devoid of values and moving headlong into chaos at breakneck speed - Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay like Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists third-rate poets pompous critics pseudo-scientists con-men bewildered romantics cock-eyed futurists - all inhabit this world spinning out of control as wildly comic as it is disturbingly accurate. In a style that ranges from the lyrical to the absurd and with characters whose identities shift and change as often as their names and appearances Huxley has here invented a novel that bristles with life and energy what the New York Times called "a delirium of sense enjoyment!" Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1923Best.-Nr. 119728London: Chatto & Windus 1923. First edition of this classic novel. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For James Murphy thirty years later Aldous Huxley 1954." Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Uncommon signed and inscribed. London life just after World War I devoid of values and moving headlong into chaos at breakneck speed - Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay like Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists third-rate poets pompous critics pseudo-scientists con-men bewildered romantics cock-eyed futurists - all inhabit this world spinning out of control as wildly comic as it is disturbingly accurate. In a style that ranges from the lyrical to the absurd and with characters whose identities shift and change as often as their names and appearances Huxley has here invented a novel that bristles with life and energy what the New York Times called "a delirium of sense enjoyment! Chatto & Windus hardcover
1932Best.-Nr. 152334London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with 22 karat gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery hand-made Italian marbled endpapers all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional example. "A nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science… easily Huxley's most popular and many good judges continue to think his best novel" DNB. "After the success of his first three novels Huxley abandoned the fictional milieu of literary London and directed his satire toward an imagined future. He admitted that the original idea of Brave New World was to challenge H.G. Wells' Utopian vision… The novel also marks Huxley's increasing disenchantment with the world which was to result in his leaving England for California in 1937 in search of a more spiritual life. The book was immediately successful" Parker & Kermode 161-62. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1931Best.-Nr. 150293London: Cassell and Company Limited 1931. First edition of "the first modern textbook of biology." Quarto original cloth illustrated. From the library of James D. Watson with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. James D. Watson was a molecular biologist geneticist and biophysicist best known for co-discovering the structure of DNA in 1953 alongside Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin. Their groundbreaking work on the double helix model of DNA laid the foundation for modern genetics and revolutionized the biological sciences. Watson’s contribution to science particularly in the field of molecular biology earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 shared with Crick and Maurice Wilkins. Beyond his scientific achievements Watson also played a key role in advancing genetic research through his leadership at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. His work and subsequent publications including The Double Helix 1968 which provides a personal account of the discovery have sparked significant ethical debates in the scientific community particularly regarding his controversial views on genetics and intelligence. In very good condition. The Science of Life is a book written by H. G. Wells Julian Huxley and G. P. Wells gives a popular account of all major aspects of biology as known in the 1920s. It has been called "the first modern textbook of biology" and "the best popular introduction to the biological sciences". Wells's most recent biographer notes that The Science of Life "is not quite as dated as one might suppose". In undertaking The Science of Life H. G. Wells who had published The Outline of History a decade earlier selling over two million copies desired the same sort of treatment for biology. He thought of his readership as "the intelligent lower middle classes . not idiots half-wits . greenhorns religious fanatics . smart women or men who know all that there is to be known". Julian Huxley the grandson of T. H. Huxley under whom Wells had studied biology and his son "Gip" a zoologist divided the initial writing between them; H. G. Wells revised dealt with the help of his literary agent A. P. Watt with publishers and acted as a strict taskmaster often obliging his collaborators to sit down and work together and keeping them on a tight schedule. H. G. Wells had begun the book during his wife's final illness and is said to have used work on the book as a way to keep his mind off his loss. The text as published is presented as the common work of a "triplex author". H. G. Wells took 40% of the royalties; the remainder was split between Huxley and Wells's son. In his will H. G. Wells left his rights in the book to G. P. Wells. Cassell and Company Limited hardcover
Best.-Nr. 53241London: Macmillan and Co. 1913. Polar Exploration FIRST COLONIAL EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo 20 x 14cm pp.xviii; 497; 11; pp.x; 431; 1. With eight photographic plates including a frontispiece to each volume and a folding map at the rear of each volume. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles and blue stamped decoration to spines and upper boards. With dust-jackets showing an image of Captain Scott to the front cover. Some rubbing and spotting to edges. Light spotting and offsetting to endpapers. Light pencil annotations to contents page of volume II. A square cut-out of a newspaper column announcing the promotion of Sir E.R.G.R. Evans to Admiral taped to verso of illustrations list of volume I. Light occasional spotting. Tears to map joint corners. Cloth spines lightly faded. Jackets with chips from head and tail of spines and corners; toning to spines. Rarely seen in jackets. Near fine. Rosove 290.C1.a. London: Macmillan and Co., 1913 unknown
Best.-Nr. 121714London Williams and Norgate 1863. . First edition first issue; 8vo; engraved frontispiece and illustrations within the text 8-page publisher's catalogue dated February 1863 at rear; occasional light spots and marks to the contents but generally clean; original green morocco-grained cloth titles to spine gilt borders to boards blocked in blind red coated endpapers printed with publisher's catalogue some marks dampstain and loss of size affecting the cloth corners and ends of spine a little bumped and worn small knock to the edge of the upper board very good condition; 159pp. First edition of the first book to apply Darwinian evolution to human beings preceding Darwin's own account in The Descent of Man. The first issue point identified by Hook and Norman the frontispiece printed on A2v forming an integral part of the preliminaries and a likely issue point the catalogue dated February 1863. 'Huxley earned the nickname "Darwin's bulldog" for his outspoken defence of the theory of evolution through natural selection particularly as it pertained to man. The present work grew out of the famous Hippocampus minor controversy of the early 1860s in which Huxley publicly challenged the taxonomist Richard Owen's claim that man's brain differed qualitatively from those of all other mammals. Through a series of dissections of primate brains Huxley disproved Owen's assertions that only man's brain possessed a Hippocampus minor and demonstrated that the differences between men and apes were smaller than those between apes and the lower primates' Hook and Norman The Norman Library of Science and Medicine 1132. 'Written to be accessible Man's Place in Nature was ignored by the highbrows and abominated by the religious press but acquired a cachet among the middle-class public no less than among National Reformer secularists and Russian and German socialists' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Freeman British Natural History Books 1855; Hook & Norman The Norman Library of Science & Medicine 1132. London, Williams and Norgate, 1863. hardcover
1932Best.-Nr. 149102London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo bound in full leather by Exeter Bookbinders in a unique binding of a blue suit jacket and three titanium skull-shaped buttons to the front panel gilt titles to the spine "Bernard Marx" in gilt on the front panel. In near fine condition. Ownership inscription to the copyright page "Yes!!!! 1st edition." Exeter Bookbinders bookplate to the rear pastedown. "A nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science… easily Huxley's most popular and many good judges continue to think his best novel" DNB. "After the success of his first three novels Huxley abandoned the fictional milieu of literary London and directed his satire toward an imagined future. He admitted that the original idea of Brave New World was to challenge H.G. Wells' Utopian vision… The novel also marks Huxley's increasing disenchantment with the world which was to result in his leaving England for California in 1937 in search of a more spiritual life. The book was immediately successful" Parker & Kermode 161-62. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century. Chatto & Windus hardcover