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1924Best.-Nr. 36432New York: George H. Doan Compnay 1924. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Book plate small book store sticker.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. George H. Doan Compnay hardcover
1936Best.-Nr. HUXLEYAL003106Chatto & Windus London. 1936. First edition. Octavo. A 620-page novel.Edges faintly spotted. Near fine in very good dustwrapper a bit faded at the spine and with a few short closed tears. Chatto & Windus, London. unknown
1931Best.-Nr. 23652London: Chatto and Windus 1931. A first edition first printing published by Chatto and Windus in 1931. A near fine copy without inscriptions in like wrapper which is NOT browned on the spine with one small nick to the head of the spine. Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels and wide-ranging output of essays he also published short stories poetry travel writing and film stories and scripts. Chatto and Windus unknown
Best.-Nr. 66967Botany Plant hunting . 1st. Ed. Pub. John Murray. 1918. Two volume set with portrait frontis. to each volume and one fold-out map as published. 8vo. Hardbacks. With bookplate of A. Logan Turner an eminent Scottish surgeon to front pastedowns of both volumes. Small lib. stamp possibly that of a private library to title page and p.41 of both vols. Cords stretched at p.340 in Vol. I. o/w. contents fine. Original navy blue bindings with gilt armorials to front boards and gilt lettering to spine in thor. vg. / nr. fine condition. With a copy of John Murrays original 4-page illustrated pre-publication advertisement for the Life and Letters loosely inserted. Also comes with a lengthy article on Sir Joseph Hooker in support of the publication of Life and Letters from The Spectator dated August 17 1918 loosely inserted. Unique set. Botany Plant hunting hardcover
1865Best.-Nr. 9131883Eyre and Spottiswoode 1865. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. 8vo green cloth binding gilt lettering on backstrip title page has tears red speckled page edges shelfwear pages clean text clear Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item700grams ISBN: Eyre and Spottiswoode hardcover
1877Best.-Nr. 5782240J. & A. Churchill 1877. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Re-bound by library. Small thick brown cloth 8vo with gilt lettering on sun fade backstrip. Light general wear to exterior. Some neat repairs to title page. Interior is secure. Several pages have small pencil markings. Some foxing. Illustrated and contains a few plates. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item750grams ISBN: J. & A. Churchill hardcover
1914Best.-Nr. 040696London: Smith Elder & Co 1914. 4th Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fourth edition. Two volumes. Some damp staining to the bottom of the textblocks of both volumes. Otherwise very good clean copies with some light repairs to fold out maps. Postage will be higher than quoted for outside NZ Smith Elder & Co hardcover
1926Best.-Nr. 01AIR0172.Original blue cloth and gilt titling on spine sunned. Boards tanned mainly around edges. Top edge gilt fore and bottom edges of pages untrimmed and some remain unopened. Bookplate tipped in on front end-paper. Copy number 555 signed by Huxley on page between half-title and title page. Binding sound. Text clean throughout except barely noticable tanning where dust-jacket inserted as page marker ! Rare unclipped 42/- cream dust-jacket creased in three places where folded and inserted with pencilled notes erased from front top outer corner. Edges tanned marginal wear some spotting but complete. The Florence Press, Chatto & Windus. hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 50413New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1946. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. near fine in a VG dust jacket. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
Best.-Nr. 62321London: Chatto & Windus 1936. Philosophical Novel FIRST EDITION. Octavo 22 x 15cm pp.8 620. Publisher's grey cloth with maroon titles to spine and upper. Top edge maroon. With the maroon typographic dust-jacket priced at 10/6. Large woodcut bookplate of Elizabeth Armour to front pastedown. A touch of light wear to extremities. Jacket marginally toned to spine with light chipping and a few closed tears to edges. Some tape applied to reverse of jacket. Near fine. London: Chatto & Windus, 1936 unknown
1893Best.-Nr. 51406090022Appleton 1893. Hardcover. Good. Good 7 VOLUME SET of hardcover's. AUTHORIZED EDITION LIMITED EDITION #445 OF ONLY 1000 COPIES. Circa 1899 Date of 1893 in preface. TITLES: Science and Hebrew Tradition Science and Christian Tradition Evolution and Ethics Methods and Results Discourses Darwiniana and Hume. 7 BOOKS. Each with beautiful photogravures on frontis. Text unmarked. "Evolution and Ethics" volume has light damp stain on bottom pages corner. Gilt page top edges. Covers green boards with gilt lettering and decoration show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Hinge slightly cracked in 3 volumes but bindings are intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! Appleton hardcover
Best.-Nr. 6441976Taylor & Francis Group . Hardback. New. pp. 212 Taylor & Francis Group hardcover
1965Best.-Nr. 20-09491Harper & Row 1965-01-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Harper & Row paperback
1966Best.-Nr. 010704Boston: Beacon Press 1966. Book. Very Good. Printed Wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Beacon Paperback Edition. Association Copy. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by author on half-title page "for Willis and Helli with my best - Phil". Condition: Very Good. Octavo. Wrappers and edges foxed as well as some foxing at endpages. Willis Barnstone and Philip Appleman had overlapping tenures in the English department at Indiana University Bloomington. While Appleman is better known as a poet his The Silent Explosion predates Paul and Anne Ehrlich's The Population Bomb 1968 making it the first modern book on overpopulation. . Beacon Press Paperback books
1923Best.-Nr. 014905London: Chatto and Windus 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine/Fair/Good. 8vo. 328pp. Sharp True First Edition bound in yellow cloth with titles in red upon a white paper spine label. Square tight and clean throughout save some fairly minor page edge toning. Wear to spine ends and edges. Board edges toning. Mild off-setting to end-papers. Complete unclipped though unpriced dust-jacket 7s.6d. net on spine panel has chipping and heavy toning to spine. Hinges splitting and toned. Not perfect but complete and uncommon in any condition. A solid collectable copy at a great price. Chatto and Windus hardcover books
1926Best.-Nr. 13822London: Chatto & Windus 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear sunning to spine else tight bright and unmarred. Color with marbled boards gilt spine title. 8vo. viii 257pp. Signed by author on limitation pg. This is copy 623 of 650. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 8567Garden City N.Y. : Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1929. Hardcover in original paperboard slipcase. 8vo 9.5" x 6.5" white cloth gilt black leather title label at spine. 44 pp. three wood-engravings. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown. CONDITION: Very good spine sunned cover toned text and engravings crisp and clean; good slipcase worn and rubbed at extremities toned some spotting. Limited to 369 copies signed by Huxley this copy number 98. With illustrations by Eric Gill. REFERENCES: Rowman & Littlefield 282. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929 unknown books
1955Best.-Nr. 11758London: Chatto & Windus 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on ffep to Oliver Sacks: "To Ol with love Tony." From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Folding chipping and loss to upper/lower spine on dj staining to cloth evenly toned minimal shelfwear else very tight bright and unmarred. Blue cloth boards. 8vo. 127pp. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1926Best.-Nr. 498873London: Chatto and Windus 1926. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 272pp. Faint stain on rear cover and fore-edge of text block thus a very good copy in very good spine-toned and overall age-toned dust jacket. Chatto and Windus hardcover books
1974Best.-Nr. 1390285Avon CT: Limited Editions Club// The Cardavon Press 1974. First Edition First Printing Limited Edition #1050/2000. Hardcover. Octavo xxvi 237 1 pages. In Very Good condition. Contained in a Very Good condition red-orange slipcase with dark blue lettering along the spine and mild wear along the head edge. Navy blue spine with light blue lettering. Boards have mild shelving wear. Textblock has mild wear along the rear end-page a blue ink stain on the front hinge and mild wear along the edges. Signed by Mara McAfee on the publisher's limitation page limited edition #1050/2000. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1390285. Special Collections - Downstairs. Limited Editions Club// The Cardavon Press hardcover books
1992Best.-Nr. 06051scsLondon: Macmillan 1992. Four Volumes. Quarto cloth lviii 815 pp viii 747 pp vii 888 pp. Illus. maps. Former-owner embossed stamps; otherwise Fine. Macmillan, [1992]. Four Volumes. hardcover books
1959Best.-Nr. 67066London: Chatto & Windus 1959. Second Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Good . 288pp. Octavo 22 cm Green paper over boards. The spine and boards show light edgewear. The front free endpaper has the partial remains of a previous owner's bookplate. In the dust jacket designed by Rosemary Grimble with a loss from the paper at the foot of the spine and the surrounding area of the rear panel and a few lesser tears to the extremities. Huxley's account of her childhood in Africa amongst the Kikuyu during the years just before the First World War. From the personal collection of Nelson Algren with his signature and his trademark drawing of a cat in yellow and black on the front free endpaper. Algren grew up in Chicago a city that he would make famous through his portrayals of its poor working and criminal classes. His affinity for the marginalized sections of American society marked his entire career. Algren won the 1950 National Book Award for The Man With the Golden Arm. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1878Best.-Nr. 216274New York: Appleton 1878. hardcover. very good. Illustrated. 8vo 3/4 tan calf marbled boards marbled edges ornately gilt spine with red and green leather labels. New York: Appleton 1878. Very good . A textbook which is a little masterpiece of its kind. Huxley never accepted without qualification the Darwinian principle. He thought "transmutation may take place without transition" and thereby anticipated the findings of modern research. He liberated the English anatomical school from the deductive method and sounded the keynote of the social medicine of the future. - Garrison-Morton 338; Casey Wood p. 396. Appleton unknown books
1863Best.-Nr. 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
1956Best.-Nr. 54812NY: Harper & Brothers. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1956. Hardcover. Original orange cloth stamped to spine in gilt and black with black HB logo to front cover. Later printing of the new edition with Harper code C-F March 1956. $3.50 flap price. Corners lightly worn hint of soil to text block edges. The DJ is slightly soiled/rubbed with slight edgewear and a couple of short closed edge tears. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 311 pages . Harper & Brothers hardcover
