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1932ref. 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
1933ref. 86317Plon | Paris 1933 | 12 x 19 cm | broché
1959ref. 146478New York: Harper & Brothers 1959. First edition of Huxley's classic work revisiting the premises of his iconic dystopian and prophetic novel published 28 years earlier and how this vision has come to fruition. Octavo original cloth. Boldly signed by Aldous Huxley on the half-title page. This title is rare signed as Huxley near the end of his life was nearly blind. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed. Published 28 years after Huxley’s nightmarish masterpiece Brave New World Revisited contains a concise analysis of how the author's grotesque vision of the future has in many ways already come to fruition. Huxley examines the ways in which Big Business and political propaganda have already established a "psychological slave trade" in addition to many other "Brave New World techniques" which increasingly threaten the freedom of the individual. Chapters include Propaganda in a Democratic Society The Arts of Selling Brainwashing Chemical Persuasion Hypnopaedia and Education For Freedom. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1944ref. 140947235New York: Harper and Brothers 1944. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition first printing. Signed and dated 1960 by Aldous Huxley on the front free endpaper. vi 311 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt ruling and lettering to spine titles blocked in dark blue. Near Fine with slight lean to spine light soiling to endpapers. In Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear and modest rubbing and soiling to rear panel. Housed in a custom clamshell case half morocco over marbled paper. First edition of Aldous Huxley's bildungsroman about a spoiled and materialistic young man finding his way to enlightenment. Signed copies of the first edition are scarce. Harper and Brothers unknown
1944ref. 140947235New York: Harper and Brothers 1944. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition first printing. Signed and dated 1960 by Aldous Huxley on the front free endpaper. vi 311 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt ruling and lettering to spine titles blocked in dark blue. Near Fine with slight lean to spine light soiling to endpapers. In Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear and modest rubbing and soiling to rear panel. Housed in a custom clamshell case half morocco over marbled paper. First edition of Aldous Huxley's bildungsroman about a spoiled and materialistic young man finding his way to enlightenment. Signed copies of the first edition are scarce. Harper and Brothers unknown books
1933ref. 86317Paris: Plon 1933. Fine. Plon Paris 1933 12 x 19 cm broché First French edition printed on alfa paper the only issue after 59 pure linen copies. Fine and rare copy. Plon unknown
1888ref. 57931London, Harrison and Sons, 1888. 8vo. In later full blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Proceedings of the Royal Society of London"", vol. XLIV. Entire volume offered. Soiling to extremities, endges of front board torn and upper front hindge with small tear. Library label pasted on to front free end-paper. Vague blindstamp to title-page of volume. Internally fine and clean. [Darwin's orbituary""] I-XXV pp. [Entire volume: viii, 464, XXXV, (1) pp.].
1888ref. 57931London Harrison and Sons 1888. 8vo. In later full blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Proceedings of the Royal Society of London" vol. XLIV. Entire volume offered. Soiling to extremities endges of front board torn and upper front hindge with small tear. Library label pasted on to front free end-paper. Vague blindstamp to title-page of volume. Internally fine and clean. Darwin's orbituary; I-XXV pp. Entire volume: viii 464 XXXV 1 pp. First appearance of Huxley's famous obituary of Darwin. "While Huxley was composing this and other expositions of technical education in the late 1880s he was also writing an obituary notice on Darwin for the Proceedings of the Royal Society. Though he undertook this piece in 1883 he did not complete it until five years later. In letters to Foster and Hooker in early 1888 Huxley remarked that he was still rereading Origin of Species trying to separate the "substance" of the theory from its "accidents" with the aim of warding off a generation of "hostile comments and would-be improvements.". Even though he had written at least a half-dozen abstracts of the work and was reading it he said "for the nth time" he was "getting along slowly" and finding it "one of the most difficult books to exhaust that ever was written." At this juncture in his life it seemed that Huxley had difficulty concluding what he had always concluded previously about Darwin's theory: that its points of central importance were the facts of variation the Malthusian principle of overpopulation and its consequence universal struggle. As Huxley finally came around to saying once again the obituary article it was immaterial how organisms differed from each other or why." White Thomas Huxley: Making the 'Man of Science P. 152Darwin-Online A344. hardcover
ref. 1492A collection of original offprints in the fields of genetics heredity and evolution. From the library of Alfred Henry Sturtevant 1891-1970 renowned American geneticist. All items unless stated bear Sturtevant's signature and/or stamp and many are presentation copies. Included are works by Bateson Boveri Calvin Bridges Julian Huxley Jacques Loeb Raymond Pearl Reginald Punnett and Edmund Wilson. unknown
ref. 1492A collection of original offprints in the fields of genetics heredity and evolution. From the library of Alfred Henry Sturtevant 1891-1970 renowned American geneticist. All items unless stated bear Sturtevant's signature and/or stamp and many are presentation copies. Included are works by Bateson Boveri Calvin Bridges Julian Huxley Jacques Loeb Raymond Pearl Reginald Punnett and Edmund Wilson. unknown books
1958ref. 140943639New York: Harper & Brothers 1958. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition first printing. Signed by Aldous Huxley on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original grey-blue boards over black spine cloth stamped in blue and gilt. Near Fine with boards slightly sunned through dust jacket and former owner bookplate to front free endpaper. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear light soiling and light toning. A non-fiction work written nearly thirty years after the publication of Brave New World in which Huxley ponders whether the world had moved toward or away from his vision of the future from the 1930s. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1932ref. 140941273New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1932. First American Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth stamped in gilt with red topstain. Near Fine with light sunning to spine and edges pages toned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket edge-worn and with several masking tape reinforcements to the verso. The classic dystopian novel that posited a nearly omnipotent totalitarian state essentially built from the ground up rather than the top-down dictatorship of 1984. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc unknown
1932ref. 140941273New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1932. First American Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth stamped in gilt with red topstain. Near Fine with light sunning to spine and edges pages toned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket edge-worn and with several masking tape reinforcements to the verso. The classic dystopian novel that posited a nearly omnipotent totalitarian state essentially built from the ground up rather than the top-down dictatorship of 1984. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc unknown books
1938ref. 179852New York: Spanish Child Welfare Association of the American Friends Service Committee 1938. The elaborate bestiality of modern war First edition signed limited issue number 57 of 100 copies signed by Huxley. Created to raise money for the Quakers to distribute food in Spain the pioneering collection gathers 60 artworks produced by children during the Spanish Civil War. This copy retains the scarce donation form. An accompanying exhibition opened at the Lord & Taylor department store in New York City then travelled to museums in Boston and Worcester. By shining a light on the lives of children within Spain the project "was not just about denouncing the situation endured by these minors. They meant to open up a space where the latter could directly retell their own experiences" Fernández-Fontecha. This was one of the first times that "the image of children as innocent victims was visually developed within a war context" and contemporaneously to the conflict Fernández-Fontecha. Octavo. Captioned illustrations throughout. Original spiral-bound red card wrappers silver title label printed in blue on front cover. Rubbing to extremities nick to foot of front wrapper occasional offsetting from captions. A very good copy. Bromer B54.2. Leticia Fernández-Fontecha quoted in "Eighty years later book of children's drawings prefaced by Aldous Huxley sees the light in Spain" El País 16 July 2019. unknown
1863ref. 32820395Original cloth paper spine label chipped. Very good. Cloth case FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. From the library of Millard Fillmore 13th president of the United States 1850-1853 with his signatures dated May 22 1863 on the title and on the front pastedown. Huxley "Darwin's bulldog" was the leading defender and promoter of Darwinism in the years following the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859. In this popular work Huxley attempts to "disencumber the subject of its difficulties simplify its statements relieve it of technicalities and bring it so distinctly within the horizon of ordinary apprehension that persons of common sense may judge for themselves. … Such is the character of the present volume" preface. This volume reflects the wide dissemination of Darwin's ideas in the 1860s. Appleton hardcover
ref. 3503851975. Unbound. Near Fine. A collection of more than 40 letters notes and ephemera dated between 1932-1975 from the private files of Katherine Gauss Jackson and her father Christian Gauss. Nearly all are near fine or better. The correspondents include a number of noted figures in American literature and academia including: two-page Autograph Letter Signed from Sinclair Lewis; Typed Note Signed by Aldous Huxley; Typed Note Signed by Rex Stout; two Autograph Notes Signed by illustrator Robert Osborn with an Inscribed cartoon; and four Autograph Letters Signed from Edmund Wilson related to the publication of The Papers of Christian Gauss along with numerous other correspondence. Further details available upon request. unknown
ref. 3503851975. Unbound. Near Fine. A collection of more than 40 letters notes and ephemera dated between 1932-1975 from the private files of Katherine Gauss Jackson and her father Christian Gauss. Nearly all are near fine or better. The correspondents include a number of noted figures in American literature and academia including: two-page Autograph Letter Signed from Sinclair Lewis; Typed Note Signed by Aldous Huxley; Typed Note Signed by Rex Stout; two Autograph Notes Signed by illustrator Robert Osborn with an Inscribed cartoon; and four Autograph Letters Signed from Edmund Wilson related to the publication of The Papers of Christian Gauss along with numerous other correspondence. Further details available upon request. unknown books
1932ref. 7552London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First Edition First Printing. First edition first printing with no additional printings listed on the copyright page. Signed by the author Aldous Huxley on a professionally tipped in page from a signed limited edition therefore the authenticity is guaranteed. Finely bound in navy leather with raised bands to the spine and with marbled endsheets. Measures approximately 7.75" x 5.25" with 306 numbered pages. This book is in very good condition. Gilt lettering and design on the spine still bright and well preserved. Binding is tight and the textblock is free of any previous ownership marks. Moderate foxing to the textblock. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # P4-79. Chatto & Windus unknown
1932ref. 7553London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First UK Edition First Impression SIGNED. First edition first impression with no additional printings listed on the copyright page. Signed by the author Aldous Huxley on a professionally tipped in page from a signed limited edition therefore the authenticity is guaranteed. Measuring approximately 7.75" x 5.25" with 306 numbered pages. Comes with a facsimile reproduction dust jacket for protection and display. This book is in very good minus condition. Moderate surface wear and staining to the original cloth boards. Minor sun fading to the spine. Minor scattered soiling to the textblock. Old bookseller ticket at the bottom of the rear pastedown. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # P12-21. Chatto & Windus unknown
1916ref. 140941755Oxford: B. H. Blackwell 1916. First Edition. Very Good. First edition of Aldous Huxley's first book. A presentation copy signed by the author and inscribed to Elbridge Adams dated 1929. Bound in publisher's original cream-colored wraps with title label to spine and upper cover. Very Good with soiling and edge wear and a short split started at the bottom of the front spine fold. The words "Printed in Great Britain" penciled to title page and pages lightly thumbed. Housed in a custom green cloth folding slipcase. B. H. Blackwell unknown
1916ref. 140941755Oxford: B. H. Blackwell 1916. First Edition. Very Good. First edition of Aldous Huxley's first book. A presentation copy signed by the author and inscribed to Elbridge Adams dated 1929. Bound in publisher's original cream-colored wraps with title label to spine and upper cover. Very Good with soiling and edge wear and a short split started at the bottom of the front spine fold. The words "Printed in Great Britain" penciled to title page and pages lightly thumbed. Housed in a custom green cloth folding slipcase. B. H. Blackwell unknown books
1932ref. 000930Chatto and Windus 1932. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Dust Jacket Included. First edition first impression published by Chatto & Windus in 1932. Huxley's seminal work and a classic of modern literature. Unclipped dust jacket has strong colours with loss to the spine ends and also into the adjoining panels with some small tears and chipping to the corners and some creasing. Jacket is now in a very tidy removable protective wrapper. Blue covers bright gilt lettering to the spine slight lean or spine curve secure binding blue top edge bottom edge of pages untrimmed a few spots to the edge of the page block pages otherwise bright and tidy. Good condition. Chatto and Windus hardcover
1933ref. 86332Reliure de l'époque plein maroquin noir. Dos à nerfs, filets à froid sur les plats. Tête dorée. Non rogné. Manque angulaire sur l'intégralité des témoins. Un portrait de l'auteur (coupure de presse) collé sur garde blanche. Gardes légèrement ombrées.
1973ref. 37095PIPER REINHARD 1973. 1. hardcover. PIPER, REINHARD hardcover
1932ref. 150336London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with 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. Boldly signed and dated by Aldous Huxley on a page bound-in. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation rare and desirable signed. "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
