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1936Best.-Nr. 50544London: Chatto & Windus 1936. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good with a Good dust jacket. Light chipping on top right of front panel on top and bottom edge of spine and top edge of back panel. Spine is lightly sunned. Book has red stain on top edge as published. loc Mike. Chatto & Windus, hardcover
1964Best.-Nr. 197306New York: Harper & Row 1964. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Features text by Matthew Huxley. A collection of 148 images of which 48 are in color. A clean and tight near fine copy in two tone cloth boards with a tiny rubber-stamp: Gift of Nathan Lyons 1930-2016 to the front free endpaper and in a very good plus dust jacket with some light wear. Signed and warmly inscribed Cornell Capa to photographer Nathan Lyons. A terrific association copy as Capa helped found the International Center of Photography and Lyons along with his wife Joan founded the Visual Studies Workshop. Harper & Row unknown
1964Best.-Nr. 197306New York: Harper & Row 1964. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Features text by Matthew Huxley. A collection of 148 images of which 48 are in color. A clean and tight near fine copy in two tone cloth boards with a tiny rubber-stamp: Gift of Nathan Lyons 1930-2016 to the front free endpaper and in a very good plus dust jacket with some light wear. Signed and warmly inscribed Cornell Capa to photographer Nathan Lyons. A terrific association copy as Capa helped found the International Center of Photography and Lyons along with his wife Joan founded the Visual Studies Workshop. Harper & Row unknown books
1930Best.-Nr. 152627New York: The Fountain Press 1930. First signed limited edition of Huxley's fifth collection of short fiction. Octavo original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Boldly signed by Aldous Huxley on the half-title page. In near fine condition. Huxley's fifth collection of short fiction Brief Candles contains four short stories: Chawdron The Rest Cure The Claxtons and After the Fireworks. Brief Candles takes its title from a line in William Shakespeare's Macbeth from Macbeth's famous soliloquy: "Out out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing." The Fountain Press hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 143082New York: The Fountain Press 1930. First edition and signed limited edition of Huxley's fifth collection of short fiction. Octavo original black cloth. Boldly signed by Aldous Huxley on the half-title page. In very good condition. Huxley's fifth collection of short fiction Brief Candles contains four short stories: Chawdron The Rest Cure The Claxtons and After the Fireworks. Brief Candles takes its title from a line in William Shakespeare's Macbeth from Macbeth's famous soliloquy: "Out out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing." The Fountain Press hardcover
1929Best.-Nr. 82422London: The Fleuron Ltd 1929. First Limited Edition. One of 300 numbered copies this being copy no.222. Quarto 25.75cm; tan cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and decorations stamped in gilt on front cover; top edge gilt; publisher's patterned paper-covered slipcase; viii642pp; with color illustrations by Albert Rutherston. Gentle sunning to spine with a very shallow indentation to upper rear board edge resulting in a mild ripple to text at upper margin; some offsetting to endpapers a handful of faint foxed spots to half-title else clean throughout; about Near Fine. Slipcase is shelfworn a bit sunned with some partial splits and general tenderness along the joints; still sound but only Good to Very Good. The first and only printing of this collection of five essays. BROMER A20. 82422. The Fleuron Ltd unknown
1920Best.-Nr. 028445London: Chatto & Windus 1920. Octavo. 80 pages. Huxley sent his brother a copy of "Leda" in response to Julian's letter announcing his engagement to Juliette Baillot. Technically the story of an adultery it made an odd engagement present. As a poem about recurring disillusionment however it can be construed as indirect advice to an elder brother and a prospective sister-in-law not to expect too much. The newly engaged pair missed the poem's central point completely. Contents: Leda -- The Birth of God -- On Hampstead Heath -- Sympathy -- Male and Female Created he Them -- From the Pillar -- Jonah -- Variations on a Theme -- A Melody by Scarlatti -- A Sunset -- Life and Art -- First Philosopher's Song -- Second Philosopher's Song -- Fifth Philosopher's Song -- Ninth Philosopher's Song -- Morning Scene -- Verrey's -- Frascati's -- Fatigue -- The Merry-Go-Round -- Back Streets -- Last Things -- Gothic -- Evening Party -- Beauty -- Soles Occidere et Redire Possunt. Beautifully bound by Bayntun-Riviere of Bath in 3/4 crushed brick morocco over cloth raised bands with compartments lettered and decorated in gilt top edge gilt marbled endpapers. A fine bright copy. References: Bromer D. Aun aprendo; A5.1; Eschelbach C. Aldous Huxley; 38; Muir P. Bibliographies of the first editions of books by Aldous Huxley; p. 15 and Jerome Mecklier. Chatto & Windus unknown
1929Best.-Nr. 407278Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Company 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited edition. Original cream linen boards with small gilt-stamped leather spine label. Engravings by Eric Gill. Spine tanned near fine in the original unprinted cardboard slipcase good only with edges worn and chipped. This is number 181 of 361 copies printed and Signed by Aldous Huxley. Poetry. Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover
1928Best.-Nr. 435Octavo original russet cloth original dust jacket. First trade edition of Huxley's longest novel. Banned in Ireland in 1930 on the ground of "offending public morals" Huxley's "satire on the absurdities of human behavior" is "cynical and scathing witty and sharp" An English Library 29. "Where else shall we find so brilliant and compendious a diagnosis of the modern world It is not his technique excellent as that is but the unifying power of his vision that exalts his work into the condition of music" The Saturday Review. Preceded by a signed limited edition of 256 copies. Eschelbach & Shober 49. Schulz 124. Haight 74. Book is very good toning to spine with light wear at the heel overall a very good unclipped dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1928Best.-Nr. 140844London: Chatto & Windus 1928. First edition of Huxley's classic satiric novel. Octavo original cloth. Fine in a good dust jacket with chipping to the spine contemporary name to the front free endpaper. Point Counter Point's title is a reference to the flow of arguments in a debate and a series of these exchanges tell the story. Instead of a single central plot there are a number of interlinked story lines and recurring themes as in musical "counterpoint". As a roman à clef many of the characters are based on real people most of whom Huxley knew personally such as D. H. Lawrence Katherine Mansfield Sir Oswald Mosley Nancy Cunard and John Middleton Murry and Huxley is depicted as the novel's novelist Philip Quarles. It was named by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1938Best.-Nr. AA1460Los Angeles:: Jake Zeitlin 1938. 1938. Small 4to. 7 pp. White printed wrappers. Fine. Limited edition of 500 copies printed by The Ward Ritchie Press. (Jake Zeitlin, 1938). unknown
1929Best.-Nr. 407278Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Company 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited edition. Original cream linen boards with small gilt-stamped leather spine label. Engravings by Eric Gill. Spine tanned near fine in the original unprinted cardboard slipcase good only with edges worn and chipped. This is number 181 of 361 copies printed and Signed by Aldous Huxley. Poetry. Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover books
1938Best.-Nr. AA1460Los Angeles:: Jake Zeitlin 1938. 1938. Small 4to. 7 pp. White printed wrappers. Fine. Limited edition of 500 copies printed by The Ward Ritchie Press. (Jake Zeitlin, 1938). unknown books
1929Best.-Nr. 82422London: The Fleuron Ltd 1929. First Limited Edition. One of 300 numbered copies this being copy no.222. Quarto 25.75cm; tan cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and decorations stamped in gilt on front cover; top edge gilt; publisher's patterned paper-covered slipcase; viii642pp; with color illustrations by Albert Rutherston. Gentle sunning to spine with a very shallow indentation to upper rear board edge resulting in a mild ripple to text at upper margin; some offsetting to endpapers a handful of faint foxed spots to half-title else clean throughout; about Near Fine. Slipcase is shelfworn a bit sunned with some partial splits and general tenderness along the joints; still sound but only Good to Very Good. The first and only printing of this collection of five essays. BROMER A20. 82422. The Fleuron Ltd unknown books
1942Best.-Nr. 24059Lons: George Allen & Unwin 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/good. 645 pp bound in original green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Brief gift inscription dated Christmas 1942 on front free endpaper minor staining to bottom edge of text block not affecting interior else a fine copy. In a moderately soiled but complete original dust jacket. "Evolution: the Modern Synthesis 1942 was an expansion of Huxley's 1936 British Association address 'Natural selection and evolutionary progress'. The title of the book linked the author's name with the term 'synthesis' and thus with this important phase in the development of evolutionary biology for it was in the thirties that the new knowledge of the genetics of populations and of mutation were being brought into productive union with the doctrine of natural selection.The text is packed with information and although Huxley had trained and carried out research as a zoologist the work is noteworthy for the breadth of treatment and balance between the plant and animal kingdoms. Attending to plants as well as animals was just one example of the way in which his eclectic approach allowed him to adopt an open position on the significance of different sources of variation and the extent of gradualist evolution and by implication the extent of the creative action of natural selection" ODNB. George Allen & Unwin hardcover
1913Best.-Nr. 502967London: Smith Elder & Co. 1913. Book. Very Good - Book condition. Hardcover. Third Edition. A very nice set of two volumes price is for both bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to covers and spines. Top-edges gilt. Hinges very lightly starting but binding solid. A spattering of foxing throughout not affecting text. Corners lightly bumped. Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair. Smith, Elder & Co. Hardcover
1920Best.-Nr. 14640London: Chatto and Windus 1920. A first edition first printing published by Chatto and Windus in 1920. A very good copy without inscriptions. Small patch of residue to the front pastedown. Some light staining to the end pastedowns. Browning to the label on the spine. Bumping to the corners. Small internal stain affecting a few internal pages. Some rubbing to the edges. Pre-dating Huxley's first novel Chrome Yellow and exceptionally rare collection of short stories. Chatto and Windus unknown
Best.-Nr. 122248London Chatto & Windus 1927. . First trade edition first impression; 8vo; scattered light foxing; publisher's green cloth titles to spine gilt green topstain with the unclipped dustjacket; very good indeed. Essays on the likes of 'The Idea of Equality' 'Varieties of Inteligence' and 'Education' among others. London, Chatto & Windus, 1927. hardcover
1863Best.-Nr. HUXLEYTH007194Robert Hardwicke London. 1863. First edition. Octavo. pp 156 4 adverts. Original green cloth decorated in blind and lettered in gilt "Huxley's Lectures on Origin of Species". On the front pastedown is the pictorial ornithological bookplate of Brunsdon Yapp zoologist and writer. Bookseller's blindstamp on front free endpaper and half-title. Very good indeed. Robert Hardwicke, London. hardcover
1954Best.-Nr. 848Only clipping. From president from company or actual president About aldous huxleys doors of perception and on it " advocating drugs" I dont know if this is from the actual president or if it is just from the president of some company handling the publication of the book. Nevertheless An important and rare clipping on drugs. Has two clippings on other side glued. That part has underlinings but not the one from president.
1952Best.-Nr. 1110455Harper & Brothers. Collectible - Good. 1952. First Edition First Printing. Hard Cover. F276 Stated with "H-B" wear to the top of the spine; clean and tight pages; dust jacket has tears but looks attractive in the protective mylar . Harper & Brothers hardcover
1913Best.-Nr. B13772 vols. Third edition. With photogravure frontispieces 6 original sketches in photogravure by Dr. E.A. Wilson 18 coloured plates 16 from drawings by Dr. Wilson 260 full-page and smaller illustrations from photographs taken by Herbert G. Ponting and other members of the expedition; panoramas and maps. 4to blue cloth and gilt lettering spine edges rubbed light scattered foxing else very good. The harrowing tale Captain Scott and his team enduring the harsh conditions of the antarctic to reach the South Pole in 1912 only tofind a Norgwegian flag planted by Amundsen 34 days prior. Scott's tragic return to base camp in which he and his party of 5 explorers perished some 11 miles from One Ton Depot. Their bodies along with personal journals were found eight months later. His last journal entry was recorded as "For God's sake look after our people" Smith, Elder & Co hardcover
Best.-Nr. 731438like new. unknown
Best.-Nr. 20060London: Macmillan. First Thus . Hardcover. Excellent. Charming set; scarce to find complete & in such nice condition. Complete 9-volume set of the Collected Essays by T.H. Huxley 1825-1895 renowned proponent of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Titles: Methods and Results Darwiniana Science and Education Science and Hebrew Tradition Science and Christian Tradition Hume with Helps to the Study of Berkeley Man's Place in Nature; Discourses: Biological and Geological and Evolution and Ethics. London Macmillan 1893-1901 mix of 1st editions and reprints. Octavo; original burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine minor wear dealer sticker for Cawthorne Booksellers & "cancelled" stamp from the Library of the University of Adelaide on the front pastedown of the first 8 volumes; an excellent set. Cawthorne & Co was a prominent early South Australian bookseller established in 1870. Originally located in Gawler Place Adelaide it later moved to Hindley Street & Rundle Street Macmillan hardcover
1992Best.-Nr. 229031MacMillan Great Britain 1992. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. This book encompasses a vast range of plants grown on a domestic or commercial scale in private gardens or present in specialist and botanical collections. They are plants grown for ornament for amenity or for economic use and they include a selection of cultivars. 50000 plants are described including many hundreds of cultivars. It gives concise botanical accounts of species in cultivation throughout the world in line with the latest taxonomic thinking and it gives practical advice on how to grow every plant described. There are over 500 articles on horticultural science and practice newly commissioned from leading authorities. Light foxing to outer page edges. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Horticulture::Gardening; Gardening; ISBN: 1561590010. ISBN/EAN: 9781561590018. Inventory No: 229031. 9781561590018 This book is extra heavy and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. MacMillan hardcover