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1958Best.-Nr. 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
1932Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
1916Best.-Nr. 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
1932Best.-Nr. 140946487New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1932. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American trade edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth stamped in gilt with red topstain. Near Fine with oxidation to gilt at spine and light softening to ends light fading to cloth and light soiling to fore edge. Endsheets lightly offset. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with spine fading light soiling and a 2" closed tear to the top of the front flap fold. A much nicer copy than normally encountered and scarce thus. The classic dystopian novel that posited a nearly omnipotent totalitarian state essentially built from the ground up rather than the top-down dictatorship of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc unknown books
1932Best.-Nr. 140946546London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight fading to the spine and light wear to tips. Textblock edge lightly dust-soiled contents toned and several preliminary sheets slightly soiled. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket toning to spine with chipping at ends and corners with a short split started at the bottom of the front spine joint. A great copy of this dystopian classic. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1932Best.-Nr. 140945945London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First Edition. First edition first printing. vi 306 1 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt blue topstain. Near Fine with typical slight toning to spine bookplate on paste down in a Very Good unsophisticated dust jacket light pink staining to front panel title lettering spine panel toned slightly chipped extremities with a triangular chip to the fore edge of the rear panel unclipped 7s 6d. The first British trade edition of 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. Perennially relevant. As Helmholtz Watson says in the book "Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.". Chatto & Windus unknown books
Best.-Nr. 409666New York: D. Appleton and Company; McClure Phillips & Company; The Science Press; Modern Publishing Company 1976. Hardcover. Very Good. A near-complete set of 205 bound volumes of monthly issues published between May 1872 to December 1976 vols. 1-209 lacking only five volumes and with all monthly issues dating after November 1900 with their printed wrappers bound in. All are bound in cloth or cloth over boards. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece plates; plates and maps some folded; and in-text wood-engravings gravure and halftone photographs diagrams tables etc. Founded in 1872 by the chemist and polymath Edward L. Youmans The Popular Science Monthly was the leading American journal established to disseminate scientific knowledge to the educated layman. Youmans was associated with many of the worlds leading liberal and progressive thinkers ranging from Walt Whitman to Herbert Spencer and his journal became an outlet for the writings and ideas of Spencer and other Continental scientists like Thomas Henry Huxley and Louis Pasteur and for the rising generation of American philosophers like Charles Sanders Peirce John Dewey and William James and psychologist James McKeen Cattell who took over as editor in 1900. Among the many important first appearances are Peirces series of eight papers published in 1877-78 under the series title: Illustrations of the Logic of Science; a series of two lectures by William James: A Defense of Pragmatism published in March and April 1907; and three papers by John Dewey: Health and Sex in Higher Education March 1886 The Chaos in Moral Training August 1894 and Darwins Influence upon Philosophy July 1909. Also notable are several articles on womens issues of which we cite but three browsed at random: Woman and Political Power by Luke Owen Pike May 1872 Grant Allens Plain Words on the Woman Question December 1889; and Womans Struggle for Liberty in Germany by Mary Mills Patrick January 1900. Among the many articles published after the magazine changed its format in 1915 we cite Hugh Fullertons Why Babe Ruth is the Greatest Home Run Hitter October 1921 as the best representative example of the type of article this award-winning magazine has published throughout the 20th Century and up through the present day. An ex-library set with intermittent markings that varied over time including: ownership stamps small ink and/or embossed stamps in the early volumes some perforated stamps in the middle volumes and ink stamps in the later volumes and bookplates. Modest overall soiling to the cloth bindings some of the early printed wraps are toned and/or detached still present a few volumes with small repairs to the endpapers most volumes are very good or better. A very scarce near-complete set. D. Appleton and Company; McClure, Phillips & Company; The Science Press; Modern Publishing Company hardcover books
1932Best.-Nr. 1156London: Chatto and Windus 1932. First Edition. Deluxe issue number 154 of 324 signed copies. 8vo. Fine in the publisher's yellow cloth morocco label to spine lettered in gilt top edge gilt. The UK edition was split into signed and trade issues published simultaneously on 2 February following publication of the signed issue of the US edition on 21 January and preceding the US trade issue on 4 February. Half morocco box. Connolly 75; Eschelbach and Shober 10. "Brave New World" occupies a singular position within the twentieth-century literary canon as a prophetic dystopian vision that transcends mere speculative fiction through its incisive critique of technological determinism consumer capitalism and the erosion of individual autonomy. Unlike contemporaneous dystopian works that focused primarily on political authoritarianism Huxley's novel pioneered the concept of a "soft tyranny" wherein citizens willingly participate in their own subjugation through engineered pleasure and commodified happiness-a prescient anticipation of late capitalism's emphasis on consumption as identity formation. The novel's enduring relevance stems from its philosophical engagement with fundamental questions regarding the tension between individual liberty and social stability the ethical implications of biotechnology and the psychological price of material prosperity achieved through emotional suppression. Chatto and Windus unknown books
1932Best.-Nr. 140949470London: Chatto and Windus 1932. Limited First Edition. Near Fine. First edition limited issue. Copy #203 of 324 copies signed by Aldous Huxley on the limitation page at front. viii 306 1 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth with blue morocco title label to spine top edge gilt. Near Fine with light soiling to cloth and rubbing to corners offsetting to endsheets. A beautiful copy of the author's best-known work. Chatto and Windus unknown books
1932Best.-Nr. 565426London: Chatto & Windus 1932. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in especially bright and very near fine dust jacket with small chips at the spine ends and a tiny and seamless internal repair of a miniscule tear. Housed in a custom blue cloth clamshell case with gray morocco gilt spine label. A nice copy of Huxley's masterpiece a bleak and despairing vision of future society. Increasingly rare in collector's condition. A much fresher than usual example. Connolly 100. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1932Best.-Nr. 140946918London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with significant lean to binding and light fading to spine foxing to text block edges and slight perfume odor. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning to spine light edge wear and foxing. A striking copy of the dystopian classic. Chatto & Windus unknown books
