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1936ref. 003508Toronto: The MacMillan Company of Canada Limited 1936. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. August 1936. Book was published June 18 1936. The novel focuses on the life of Anthony Beavis but is not presented in the chronological order of his life. 620 pp. Tan coloured boards have darker brown text on spine only. Book ihas bumped and scuffed extremities and a gift dedication For Barbara / Barbara put down your flute / and pay attention - / A motorcyclist in the high Andes / has been forced off the road / and is falling - / Quick / Do Something. ffep. A classic! Bookseller's Inventory # 133508. The MacMillan Company of Canada Limited hardcover
1939ref. 9032402New York: Oxford University Press 1939. 1st. Softcover. Very Good. Introduction by Huxley. Bound in publisher's original orange and black wrappers. Illustrated through with black and white reproductions. Minor wear to extremities wear to spine. 6 x 9 inches. 74 pages. Oxford University Press paperback
ref. 0380008262.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. 1428076662.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. B9783030840303Paperback / softback. New. This book reprints and analyses reviews of music hall acts from the family magazine The Red Letter which was published by the Scottish based firm D C Thomson from 1899 to 1987. paperback
ref. B9780837154572Hardback. New. hardcover
ref. 15425MAIER OTTO. 1. softcover. MAIER, OTTO paperback
2011ref. K17NS1484Baliol College Oxford 2011. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. 8vo in grey cloth gilt lettering to spine 113pp plates. A book of poetry by Balliol alumni and privately printed by the college. Includes rare material including from Graham Greene's 'Babbling April' __CONDITION : NEW unread and unmarked copy in a NEW complete Dust Jacket. . __To see more of our Poetry books type DbbPOETRY in the Keywords search box __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS Baliol College, Oxford hardcover
1956ref. 050956New York: Scientific American Inc. 1956. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Photographs And Drawings. 156 Pp. Light Wear. Scientific American, Inc. paperback
1975ref. SBBIH-FO5FZLQPTFKZChatto & Windus 1975. hardcover. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Chatto & Windus hardcover
ref. 070111312X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1922ref. 315297New York : Garden City Publishing 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Some wear to spine. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 307p. ; 19cm. Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century. New York : Garden City Publishing hardcover
1926ref. 329606London : Chatto & Windus 1926. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 291 pages; 19 cm. Contents: I. India and Burma. -- II. Malaya. -- II. The Pacific. -- IV. America. Subjects: Huxley Aldous 1894-1963 Travel. Huxley Aldous 1894-1963. Voyages around the world. Travel. 20th century. Voyages and travels 20th century. India Description and travel. Malay Archipelago Description and travel. Genre: text. Travel writing. London : Chatto & Windus hardcover
1953ref. 316754Paris: Editions du Chene 1953. 1st edition. Softcover. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 112p; illustrated; 31cm. Subjects: Photography. Staged art. French artists. Genre: Illustrated. Paris: Editions du Che?ne paperback
ref. 64669342Taylor & Francis Group . Papeback. New. pp. 208 Taylor & Francis Group unknown
1963ref. 13092HOW TO TALK DIRTY AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE Playboy / HMH Publishing 1963 & 1964 first edition 6 volumes complete vg to near fine copies. Also contains original contributions by Jack Finney Charles Beaumont Fredric Brown Aldous Huxley Ray Bradbury Lawrence Durrell Robert Bloch Ben Hecht Philip Roth Shel Silverstein Ian Fleming THE PROPERTY OF A LADY James Baldust-wrapper in P. G. Wodehouse BIFFEN'S MILLIONS Ernest Hemingway Arthur C. Clarke et.al. Postage guaranteed to be more than any amount noted. Playboy / HMH Publishing unknown
1936ref. 241London: Chatto & Windus 1936. First Edition First Impression. Publisher's Olive Green Cloth with Gilt Detailing. Very Good/Very Good. A Very Good Book in a Very Good Illustrated Dust Jacket Unclipped 7s.6d. Net. Book is generally shelf worn and sunned to extremities. Cloth is likewise soiled to extremities. FFEP bears a previous owner's signature and is generally toned and foxed. Text block is similarly toned and foxed. Red/Maroon top stain has dulled. Binding is tight but inclined slightly toward the rear. Dust jacket is not full size either from hand-trimming or a production error presumably the former. Jacket is toned and somewhat soiled. Bumps are present to extremities. Hardcover. Small Octavo. 303pp. Chatto & Windus unknown
1898ref. 059273New Yor: D. Appleton And Company 1898. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Xii 512 Pp. Three Quarter Black Morocco Gilt Marbled Boards Top Edge Gilt. Reprint Of Appleton's 1896 Authorized Edition.Small Former Owner's Name. Near Fine Tiny Chip Top Of Spine Still Present D. Appleton And Company hardcover
ref. 73774London Ray Society 1859. Folio. x 143 pp.; 12 engraved plates with explanatory text leaves a few text figures. Original quarter linen over limp boards. Printed label with title mounted on front board. = Written by Darwin's Bulldog the zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley 1825-1895 who was a ship's assistant surgeon and naturalist on board of HMS Rattlesnake. The Rattlesnake charted the Great Barrier Reef and the seas northwards to New Guinea. "Huxley's paper On the anatomy and the affinities of the family of Medusae' was published in 1849 by the Royal Society in its Philosophical Transactions. Huxley united the Hydroid and Sertularian polyps with the Medusae to form a class to which he subsequently gave the name of Hydrozoa. The connection he made was that all the members of the class consisted of two cell layers enclosing a central cavity or stomach. This is characteristic of the phylum now called the Cnidaria. He compared this feature to the serous and mucous structures of embryos of higher animals. When at last he got a grant from the Royal Society for the printing of plates Huxley was able to summarise this work in The Oceanic Hydrozoa published by the Ray Society in 1859'. The value of Huxley's work was recognised and on returning to England in 1850 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In the following year at the age of twenty-six he not only received the Royal Society Medal but was also elected to the Council" Wikipedia.Inscribed by a former owner on the front free edpaper recto. Repair to front board. Boards and spine worn; text and plates mostly clean. A good to very good copy. Nissen ZBI 2065. hardcover
1925ref. 132695Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1925. Hardcover. very good. 1st Edition. 63pp. 12mo. Ornamental paper covered boards. Title label to spine edges slightly browned; foot shows some rubbing small chip to crown. Some fading and creasing to spine at joints corners of boards lightly bumped. Armorial bookplate to front paste-down former owner's name in ink to front fly. Not illustrated; textblock edges un-trimmed. A lovely bright copy; very ornamental. Very good condition. While Huxley is more well known for his seminal work "Brave New World" his selected poetry and short stories garnered early acclaim. Huxley later was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature for his contributions. Quite scarce more so in this condition. 1925 Basil Blackwell hardcover
1922ref. 210CROME YELLOW by Aldous Huxley Chatto & Windus 1922 1st edition 2nd impression Huxley's first novel is a satirical comic tale containing themes which he would develop in his later and more famous works. This copy was a gift to Gertrude G Wienholt wife of Edward Arthur Wienholt formerly Gertrude Gladys Violet Sprot. The couple were married in 1919 and lived at Selkirk Scotland where there was a B.O.A.F.G. lodge which was a masonic organization fully named The British Order of Ancient & Free Gardeners. It is not known if Huxley was involved with the BOAFG in any way. The book is signed with the initials A.H. and has Huxley's photo from a newspaper cutting pasted into the blank front end page. It is not known if this is Huxley's signature which varied through his decades of autographing books and letters and gift inscription although the "A" in BOAFG matches some seen in his hand-written correspondence letters and the "H" in A.H. is not unlike others in some of his later autographs plus the unusual "t" in Gertrude matches an example in his handwritten poem Leda. So while this book is plausibly inscribed and signed by the author it is being sold here as a collectable novelty which clearly has rarity for its assocation with the B.O.A.F.G. It would of course not be outlandish for Huxley as a member of the Fabian Society to have hobnobbed with those of the British Order of Ancient & Free Gardeners early in his writing career although this book's inscription would be the only known record of any such association. A most likely interpetation is that Huxley was giving a private address to the BOAFG which was hosted by Gertrude who asked him to sign her copy of his then new book and she later pasted in the photograph from a newspaper article. Having owned this beautiful little book for nearly 20 years it is time for it now to pass out into the world for a wider adventure. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1937ref. 036201London: Chatto & Windus 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. 1st printing. DJ in plastic protective cover. Book internally Fine. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1978ref. 021616London: Elm Tree Books. 1st printing 1978. 244pp. VG/VG copy dust jacket lightly edge worn with small closed tear to head of spine small scuff to rear cover now preserved in archival jacket protector . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1978. Elm Tree Books hardcover
1934ref. mon0000056524Chatto & Windus 1934-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. 1934 First edition without jacket on orange cloth with Liza Maughams signature title page Somerset Maughan's daughetr will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable Chatto & Windus hardcover
1913ref. 6303London UK: Smith Elder& Co 1913. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Wilson E A. Complete in two volumes. Includes photogravure frontis. to each volume protected by glassine 6sketches in photogravure 18coloured plates 260photographs and 7maps some folded. Vol.I-xxvi 634pp; Vol.II-xvi 534pp. Both volumes bound in original blue cloth with gilt lettering to upper board and spines and gilt to upper page edges. Both volumes have rubbing to extremities and sunning to spines. Endpapers and pastedowns are toned to both volumes. Text-blocks are heavy and this has caused a little sagging on the spine and tender hinges but does not yet appear to be serious. Pages are text-blocks generally in good order with very occasional light signs of foxing. Vol.I has a vertical crease down its centre. Books weigh 3.5kg additional postage fee may be required. Smith, Elder& Co hardcover
