Huxley, Aldous (1894-1963).Biblio.com
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1936réf. 22464London: Chatto & Windus 1936. First trade edition. Hardcover. Slight darkening to cover cloth splash marks to top edge else very good in jacket with chips to top edge. 6 620 pp. octavo light brown cloth lettered in red dustjacket. Loosely autobiographical this novel tells the story of a young man's search for meaning in life. Bromer A41.2. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1962réf. A52688New York NY: Harper & Brothers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. Both front and rear book covers have strips of glue residue where a previous owner has used tape to hold down the dust jacket. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is in mostly clean bright condition with some light rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners. "Huxley completed his first unpublished novel at the age of 17 and began writing seriously in his early twenties establishing himself as a successful writer and social satirist. His first published novels were social satires Crome Yellow 1921 Antic Hay 1923 Those Barren Leaves 1925 and Point Counter Point 1928. Brave New World 1932 was his fifth novel and first dystopian work. In the 1920s he was also a contributor to Vanity Fair and British Vogue magazines. " from Wikipedia; 335p. pages; Pictured 2/22/26 . 1962. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1924réf. 78496London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover in jacket. .First edition bound in red cloth with paper label on the spine and an extra label at the rear - internally bright though endpages with some toning. Private bookplate present and lightly soiled dust jacket with modest wear. . Chatto & Windus hardcover
1931réf. 51260New York: The Fountain Press 1931. Limited Edition. Hardcover - as published. Signed Limited Edition. Some darkening to the paper label at the spine. Wear to the edges and corners. Binding is sound. loc Omaha. The Fountain Press hardcover
1931réf. 19623New York: The Fountain Press 1931. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Essays on a variety of topics mostly art & music but also a wide variety of subjects; also one titled 'The Beauty Industry': "The one American industry unaffected by the general depression of trade is the beauty industry. American women continue to spend on their faces and bodies as much as the spent before the coming of the slump." p125. Same as it ever was. Signed Limited edition number 736 signed by the author at the limitations page 8vo 146pp. Quarter black cloth and marbled paper-covered boards. Paper spine label slt toned. The Fountain Press hardcover
1931réf. 53491London: Chatto & Windus 1931. First Trade Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19.25cm; blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; grey topstain; dustjacket; vi2693pp. Light wear to spine ends touch of dust-soil to upper oard edges with scattered foxing to right edge of textblock; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 7s.6d. net edgeworn and sunned with a few tiny nicks and tears a spot of soil and two faint cup rings to front panel; Very Good only. Collection of 25 essays. BROMER A28.2. Chatto & Windus unknown
1968réf. 608078Berkeley California: The Hart Press 1968. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Victor Anderson. Octavo. 4 2pp. Sewn illustrated wrappers. Fine. Issued as a Christmas greeting with publisher's slip laid in. The Hart Press unknown
1923réf. 1390293New York NY: George H. Doran Company 1923. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo vi 217 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good plus condition dust jacket. Parchment white spine with dark blue lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering has moderate shelving wear large open tears along the fore corners and spine tears along the head edges and stains throughout. Boards have mild shelving wear and moderate age-toning along the head and tail edges. Textblock is splitting along the front hinge has stains on the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges and moderate age-toning along the edges. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1390293. Special Collections - Downstairs. George H. Doran Company hardcover
1928réf. 007249Garden City N.Y. Doubleday Doran & Co. 1928 1928. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1st American edition; later printing 432 pages 22 cm ; LCCN: 28-25185 ; LC: PZ3.H981; PR6015.U9; Dewey: 823.91 ; OCLC: 920277 ; "In this satiric view of intellectual life in the 1920s diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously by characters based on celebrities of the time such as D.H. Lawrence Katherine Mansfield and Huxley himself." ; "The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy who devours every man in sight; the repulsive Spandrell deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment and all the while everyone is engaged in dazzling and witty conversation." ; lavender cloth with green and purple paste down spine title label ; no dustjacket ; bright green harlequin-design endpapers ; sunning to spine ; slight wear ; else G Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928 hardcover
réf. 3664NY APPLETON 1925. FINE. NY, APPLETON, 1925 unknown
1931réf. 200721Garden City: Doubleday Doran and Company 1931. First American edition. Spine stamping dulled a bit slight shelf wear else fine in a lightly sunned dust jacket with a bit of wear at the ends of the spine. 8vo decorative moire with black cloth spine. With the book label of Wlater Chrysler on the front pastedown. Doubleday, Doran and Company unknown
1936réf. 014900London: Chatto and Windus 1936. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 303pp. Sharp First British Edition of this anthology of essays. Bound in green cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Square tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Spine and edges toning else Fine. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket 7s. 6d. net has some small chips to the crown and tips. Tiny closed tears at the heel. Spine panel toned. Two small pieces of reinforcing tape on the verso. Still solid and complete and quite presentable. A pretty collectable copy at a great price. Chatto and Windus hardcover
1936réf. 309666LONDON: CHATTO AND WINDUS. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1936. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First trade edition. Very good copy in very good dust jacket. Fore edge foxed. Spine on jacket age toned with soil spots. Shallow chipping at crest of spine on jacket. Short edge tears at corners of jacket. . CHATTO AND WINDUS. hardcover
1936réf. 127977London: Chatto & Windus 1936 First trade edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in very good lightly soiled d.j. Spine of jacket lightly browned. Chatto & Windus, hardcover
1944réf. 138400New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1944. First edition of Huxley's complex and powerful novel preceding the first English edition. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Ownership inscription. First published in 1944 by Harper & Brothers in New York Huxley's Time Must Have a Stop follows the story of Sebastian Barnack a young poet who holidays with his hedonistic uncle in Florence. Many of the philosophical themes discussed in the novel are explored further in Huxley's 1945 his comparative study of mysticism The Perennial Philosophy. The book's title derives from Hotspur's death speech in Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1 Act V Scene 4: "But thought's the slave of life and life time's fool; and time that takes survey of all the world must have a stop." Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
1924réf. 78496London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover in jacket. .First edition bound in red cloth with paper label on the spine and an extra label at the rear - internally bright though endpages with some toning. Private bookplate present and lightly soiled dust jacket with modest wear. . Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1931réf. 53491London: Chatto & Windus 1931. First Trade Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19.25cm; blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; grey topstain; dustjacket; vi2693pp. Light wear to spine ends touch of dust-soil to upper oard edges with scattered foxing to right edge of textblock; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 7s.6d. net edgeworn and sunned with a few tiny nicks and tears a spot of soil and two faint cup rings to front panel; Very Good only. Collection of 25 essays. BROMER A28.2. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1968réf. 608078Berkeley California: The Hart Press 1968. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Victor Anderson. Octavo. 4 2pp. Sewn illustrated wrappers. Fine. Issued as a Christmas greeting with publisher's slip laid in. The Hart Press unknown books
1923réf. 1390293New York NY: George H. Doran Company 1923. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo vi 217 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good plus condition dust jacket. Parchment white spine with dark blue lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering has moderate shelving wear large open tears along the fore corners and spine tears along the head edges and stains throughout. Boards have mild shelving wear and moderate age-toning along the head and tail edges. Textblock is splitting along the front hinge has stains on the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges and moderate age-toning along the edges. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1390293. Special Collections - Downstairs. George H. Doran Company hardcover books
réf. 3664NY APPLETON 1925. FINE. NY, APPLETON, 1925 unknown books
1936réf. 014900London: Chatto and Windus 1936. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 303pp. Sharp First British Edition of this anthology of essays. Bound in green cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Square tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Spine and edges toning else Fine. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket 7s. 6d. net has some small chips to the crown and tips. Tiny closed tears at the heel. Spine panel toned. Two small pieces of reinforcing tape on the verso. Still solid and complete and quite presentable. A pretty collectable copy at a great price. Chatto and Windus hardcover books
1936réf. 127977London: Chatto & Windus 1936 First trade edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in very good lightly soiled d.j. Spine of jacket lightly browned. Chatto & Windus, hardcover books
réf. a88868London 1911 first edition. Harrison and Sons. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of Lond series B vol 202 pp. 165-189. one plate. 4to. original tan printed wraps. First published article by Huxley. Near Fine. no ownership marks. no wear. . paperback
1872réf. 330678London : Macmillan 1872. 4th edition. Hardcover. Provenance: A. M. McAldowie's copy. Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked half leather. Front board detached. Scattered foxing throughout. Text remains clear without blemish. Physical description: 378 p.; 22 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographic footnotes.Subjects: Darwin Charles 1809-1882. On the origin of species. Evolution. Genre:Bibliography. London : Macmillan hardcover
1896réf. 28069D. Appleton and Company 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. Seven volumes of the nine volume set; the missing volume 6 Hume and volume 9 Evolution and Ethics are missing; each volume is three-quarter bound with leather spines and corners over blue marbled paperbound boards; gilt lettering on the spines; all leather is intact though the spines have begun to dry out; top edges of textblocks are gilt D. Appleton and Company hardcover
