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1934réf. 000972Chatto and Windus 1934. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Signed Limited Edition published by Chatto & Windus in 1934. Limited to 210 copies this is number 142. Buckram spine with decorative paper covered boards top edge gilt rest rough cut map endpapers numerous black and white photographic illustrations xii319pp.23x16cm. Spine sunned with a few marks fore edge corners rubbed bottom of spine with a bump pages a little age toned with a few rare spots otherwise tidy pages no inscriptions other than the signature. Good condition. Chatto and Windus hardcover
1921réf. 000990Chatto and Windus 1921. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. First edition first printing published by Chatto & Windus in 1921. No dust jacket. Original yellow cloth covers with some marks and general dulling to the covers more so to the spine spine title label chipped and dulled with an original spare label tipped in at the back. Top edge dyed greyish green spine with a forward lean securely bound. Offsetting to the free endpaper and half title pages generally bright an occasional minor mark good condition. The first novel by Huxley. Chatto and Windus hardcover
réf. 35615London: Chatto and Windus 1936. . First edition 8vo. pp.620 beige cloth with front board and spine lettered in red top edges red; foxing to fore-edges otherwise fresh and very good indeed in a fine unclipped dust-jacket. London: Chatto and Windus, 1936. hardcover
réf. 57964Natural history Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Macmillan. 1893-1895. Nine volume set with b/w. illus. 8vo. Bookplates to frontpaste down and ffep. of all vols. Brief notes to rfeps. of two vols. Occasional minor foxing o/w. contents fine. Original burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine in thor. vg. condition. A very pleasing set. The volume titles are in order:- Methods and Results; Darwiniana; Science and Education; Science and Hebrew Tradition; Science and Christian Tradition; Hume with Helps to the Study of Berkeley; Mans Place in Nature; Discourses: Biological and Geological; Evolution and Ethics. Natural history Monographs hardcover
1913réf. 5655Smith Elder & Co. London.1913. SECOND EDITION. Two large 8vo volumes. Fully illustrated with photogravure frontispieces 6 original sketches in photogravure by Dr. Wilson18 coloured plates 16 from drawings by Dr. Wilson 260 full page and smaller illustrationsfrom photographs taken by Herbert G. Ponting and other members of the expedition panoramas and maps. A very good copy. Publishers blue cloth with gilt lettered to front boards and spines. Top edges gilt. A few faint streaks to the spine of volume one and couple of small abrasions to outer edges of the front board on volume two but overall a very good bright set.: Smith ,Elder & Co. London.,1913 hardcover
1913réf. 77798London: Smith Elder and Co. 1913. Large 8vo. Second edition. In 2 volumes. xxvi 633; xvi 534 pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to front boards & spines. Top edges gilt. Arranged by Leonard Huxley with a preface by Sir Clements R. Markham. With photogravure frontis portraits and sketches coloured plates with tissue guards panoramas double-page plates b&w plates and maps. All plates & maps complete. Rubbing to the spines and corners a slight lean to the bindings and some markings to the cloth. Tissue guard at p. 377 torn with loss with some remnants stuck to the plate alongside an ownership inscription to the ffep dated 1913 some vey occasional pencil inscriptions scattered internaly. An early edition of this hugely influential account of Captain Scott's fateful Terra Nova expedition in which he and 4 other explorers perished on their return from the Antarctic's geographic south pole. The first volume contains Scott's journals and farewell letters found with his person by a search party 8 months after the expedition. The second volume contains the journals of crew member Edward Wilson who also died on the expedition alongside the scientific discoveries of those that survived. This second printing of the text was published the same year as the first edition as the title was so popular at the time of publication that it required 5 print runs in the 4 months between November 1913 and February 1914. Less common in such nice condition. 24cm tall. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. . Very Good. Publisher's Cloth. Second Edition. 1913. Smith, Elder and Co. 1913 hardcover
1913réf. 2091202133211750Smith Elder & Co. 1913. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 books in total Smith Elder & Co. paperback
1956réf. 847No book only clippings. A big collection of newspaper clippings from 50s. All about drugs and mescaline etc. Many clippings from about the doors of perception. I believe all of these are from the 50s in relationsship to the publishing of the doors of perception by Aldous Huxley. Rare clippings. Some of them has been underlined.
1967réf. 206090New York: Random House 1967. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Random House hardcover
1916réf. 9790843BH Blackwell 1916. 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. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item300grams ISBN: BH Blackwell hardcover
1925réf. hux03bNew York: George H. Doran Company. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Slight darkening to page ends. Teg. 1925. Limited Edition 127/250. Half vellum brown board cover. 220mm x 150mm 9" x 6". 266pp. Large paper edition. . George H. Doran Company hardcover
1870réf. 307491870 Origin of Species EVOLUTION Thomas Huxley Essays Darwin Philosophy Science "Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once." – Thomas Huxley Charles Darwin is unquestionably the most prolific evolutionist of the 19th-century; however biologists such as Thomas Henry Huxley were important advocates for Darwin's studies. Huxley was best known for his studies on evolution moral philosophy and scientific ethics. This rare 1870 printing of Huxley's reaction to Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' fully supported many of Darwin's evolutionary theories. Item number: #30749 Price: $499 HUXLEY Thomas Henry On the origin of species: or The causes of the phenomena of organic nature. A course of six lectures to working men. New York: D. Appleton and Company 1870. 1st American edition Details: <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Collation: Complete with all pages <!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->150 6 <!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->5 in-text figures <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Provenance: Bookplate – James P. Marsh <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Language: English <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure <!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Cloth <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Size: ~8in X 5.25in 20.5cm x 13cm Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 30749 Photos available upon request. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1932réf. 09670New York: Doubleday Doran and Co. Inc 1932. First American Edition. Very Good. octavo 311 pages; publisher's brown cloth spine printed in gilt gilt octagonal device on front panel. Cream colored end papers top edges stained red. First edition stated. Gilt on spine slightly oxidized; internally clean and bright with no markings of any kind. Mild crease on rear panel; altogether a very good copy. No dust jacket. Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc hardcover books
1958réf. 540201No place: The Curtis Publishing Company 1958. Softcover. Fine. Offprint. Quarto. Five side-stapled leaves. 9pp. Trifle worn and a couple of very tiny stains about fine. An article on mind-altering substances including alcohol opium LSD and "tranquilizers" for which Huxley notes that American doctors wrote 47000000 prescriptions in 1957. First published in The Saturday Evening Post October 18 1958. This essay would be included in several collections of Huxley's essays but we note only one copy of this Curtis Publishing offprint Curtis published The Saturday Evening Post at SUNY Geneseo. The Curtis Publishing Company unknown books
1959réf. 140948457London: Chatto & Windus 1959. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. 288 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Near Fine with small faint stain at tail light foxing to textblock edges. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with sunned spine panel and light foxing. Also in the rare Book Society Choice belly band sunned on the spine. A beautiful copy of Elspeth Huxley's memoir of growing up in Kenya as the child of white settlers struggling to adjust to their new environment. The book was adapted into an ITV miniseries starring Hayley Mills and Ben Cross in 1981. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1875réf. 2618261875. 2 pp. old folds small tape repair. 2 pp. Huxley and Fayrer met in 1844 at the University of London. "Fayrer became a firm friend. The two often worked through the night." Desmond. Indeed it was Fayrer who suggested Huxley take to the sea and thus he joined the Rattlesnake under the command of Owen Stanley 1846-50. Having returned from the Rattlesnake voyage 1846-50 he became the professor of natural history at the Royal School of Mines and later president of the Royal Society. Though is best known as "Darwin's bulldog" for his strident advocacy of his theory of evolution. He also coined the term "agnostic". Fayrer was famous for the treatment of snakebite and at the time of writing was gearing up for membership of the Royal Society. He was proposed for election in March and finally admitted in April 1877. Desmond A; Huxley From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest. Reading 1997 p.36 unknown books
1942réf. 3248First Edition; a Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. From the library of noted evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould. A handsome copy of this treatise on Evolution from one of the leading evolutionary scientists of the 20th century; this book scarce in the first printing particularly with the original jacket. The book is in very good condition with a square tight binding and pages free from markings; the book does show some light staining to the text block some mild rubbing and bumping to the edges and corners and some inconspicuous spotting to the boards; housed in a completely intact original jacket that shows some age-darkening to the spine and edges with some alternate areas of sunning and some light staining and soiling to the panels and spine. Overall a very presentable and collectible copy with a unique association to Gould. Not remaindered not price clipped not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box. George Allen & Unwin Ltd. hardcover books
1968réf. 14097New York: Greenwood Press 1968. Cloth. Near Fine. A very handsome example of this 1968 Greenwood Press re-issue of T.H. Huxley's collected essays complete in 9 volumes. Save for a tiny former owner name and date stamped to the top-edge of each front pastedown all 9 volumes are tight and crisp and virtually pristine. Thick uniform octavos in their wine-red cloth with bright unrubbed gilt-lettering along the spines each volume is solid and well-preserved and easily Near Fine. This collection of essays from the renowned English biologist even in this re-issue is uncommon as such in its complete run. Greenwood Press unknown books
1888réf. 5768London: Harrison & Sons 1888. Hardcover. Very good. Near fine in modern red cloth. Full volume contains the first printing pp. i:xxv of Huxley's long obituary and short biography of Darwin written and published after a five-year delay. Harrison & Sons hardcover
1974réf. 20277The Limited Editions Club. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by the illustrator. Limited edition of 2000 copies this being copy #869. Glossy navy cover has a couple barely visible scuffs else fine. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Publisher's notes laid-in. Pages are clean and pristine. Slipcase is has a couple of abrasions and a few tiny spatters of white paint but in very good condition.; 0 pages; Signed by Artist . 1974. The Limited Editions Club hardcover
1932réf. 09670New York: Doubleday Doran and Co. Inc 1932. First American Edition. Very Good. octavo 311 pages; publisher's brown cloth spine printed in gilt gilt octagonal device on front panel. Cream colored end papers top edges stained red. First edition stated. Gilt on spine slightly oxidized; internally clean and bright with no markings of any kind. Mild crease on rear panel; altogether a very good copy. No dust jacket. Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc hardcover
1931réf. 146113New York: The Fountain Press 1931. Signed limited first edition of this collection of essays. Octavo original publisher's half cloth over marbled boards. One of eight hundred and forty-two copies signed by Aldous Huxley on the rear free endpaper this is number 608. In fine condition. Housed in the original slipcase. Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer philosopher and notable pacifist widely known for his recording of psychedelic experience 'The Doors of Perception' and his dystopian narrative 'Brave New World.' 'Music at Night' covers a variety of topics such as morality in arts behavioral similarities of humans and cats and universal education. The Fountain Press hardcover
1958réf. 540201No place: The Curtis Publishing Company 1958. Softcover. Fine. Offprint. Quarto. Five side-stapled leaves. 9pp. Trifle worn and a couple of very tiny stains about fine. An article on mind-altering substances including alcohol opium LSD and "tranquilizers" for which Huxley notes that American doctors wrote 47000000 prescriptions in 1957. First published in The Saturday Evening Post October 18 1958. This essay would be included in several collections of Huxley's essays but we note only one copy of this Curtis Publishing offprint Curtis published The Saturday Evening Post at SUNY Geneseo. The Curtis Publishing Company unknown
1916réf. 55187Oxford: B. H. Blackwell 1916. First edition. Only 250 copies printed. His uncommon first book -- a selection of poetry published as number 7 in Blackwell's "Adventurers All" series of "young poets unknown to fame." Small 8vo cream paperwraps with lower and fore edges yapped i.e. overhanging and printed labels to front and spine; 51 pages plus one-page publisher's ads. Slight loss at base of spine spine label a little rubbed affecting tips of few letters covers lightly soiled and slightly edge worn. Still about very good for this fragile production. Scarce volume of verse from the author of BRAVE NEW WORLD. B. H. Blackwell unknown
1980réf. 766Liverpool University Press 1980. First edition. A highly desirable signed association copy of Reflections on Muscle the fourteenth volume in the prestigious Sherrington Lectures series written by Sir Andrew Huxley 1917–2012—Nobel Prize–winning physiologist and co-discoverer of the sliding filament theory of muscle contraction. In this work Huxley synthesizes decades of research into muscular physiology offering both a historical account of earlier experimental work and a detailed exposition of his own landmark contributions from the 1950s onward. The text is richly illustrated with diagrams micrographs and comparative schematics that elucidate such topics as filament overlap cross-bridge mechanics tension generation and ATP-driven force cycles. It remains one of the most accessible and authoritative retrospectives on the biophysical basis of muscle function. This copy is personally inscribed by Sir Andrew Huxley to the eminent physicist feminist philosopher of science and MacArthur Fellow Evelyn Fox Keller dated August 2001. This is an exceptional association between two influential figures in the history and philosophy of biological science. The inscription reads: “For Prof. Evelyn Fox Keller / With best wishes / Andrew Huxley / August 2001.” Books signed by Huxley are scarce; association copies to major scientific figures are extremely rare making this a significant item for collectors of physiology Nobel Prize authors and the intellectual history of 20th-century science. Condition & Binding: Hardcover volume in its original publisher’s boards protected by a grey protective cover/dust jacket with gilt titling to the front and spine. The protective cover shows noticeable wear including small chips edge creasing and a tear at the lower edge but remains intact and functional. The underlying boards are clean and well-preserved. The text block is crisp with bright unmarked pages except for the author’s inscription. Binding remains tight and square. Overall- very good. . Liverpool University Press unknown
