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1888rif. 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
1929rif. 66720Great Britain: Chatto & Windus 1929. Hardback. Very Good/Good. Special Signed edition limited to 260 copies of which this is numbered 73. Signed at edition description. Quarter green cloth over yellow and white printed paper-covered boards with gilt titling to spine. Pages have one spot of foxing to center of pages 308-309 and light tanning to margins but are otherwise clean and unmarked. Endpages have foxing down center of front endpages foxing to edges of rear pastedown and soiling to edges of front flyleaf. Text block has light foxing to lower edge and top edge lower edge and fore edge is deckled and top edge sprayed gilt. Top edge has tarnishing to very end of corner that meets fore edge. Boards have light sunning and soiling to fore edge light foxing to spine and moderate bumping to top corners and ends of spine; heavy bumping to lower corners with split to paper at front lower corner. Light rubbing and bumping to lower edge. Binding is tight and square. Glassine dust jacket has sunning to spine and edges heavy chipping and closed tears to lower edge and ends of spine and creasing folding and light chipping to edges and corners. Chatto & Windus unknown
1974rif. 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
1932rif. 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
1931rif. 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
1958rif. 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
1916rif. 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
1932rif. 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
1958rif. 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
1980rif. 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
1959rif. 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
rif. 1462Boards gently rubbed bumped to lower corners and spine tail jacket lightly sunned and torn. Very good. Elspeth Huxley. The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood. London: Chatto & Windus 1959. First edition. Octavo. 288pp. Publisher's green cloth spine lettered in gilt original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $16s net. From the collection of Robin and Kathryn Smiley. . unknown
1959rif. 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
1934rif. 16228Harper & Brothers New York 1934. 1st edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Spine sunned. Bookplate. Uncommon . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Philosophy; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 16228. . Harper & Brothers hardcover
1875rif. 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
1875rif. 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
1942rif. 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
1942rif. 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
1968rif. 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
1968rif. 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
1907rif. 918P35New York: Broadway Publishing Co 1907. First edition. Cloth. Good. 8" by 5.5". Not Stated. A very scarce biographical study on the life and teachings of Thomas Henry Huxley including a signed note from Huxley. The first edition of this very scarce work.With a signed letter from Huxley loosely inserted to a German bookseller dated 1893. Irving Wilson Voorhees' interesting study on the teachings and ideal of Thomas Henry Huxley. This work includes a brief biography on Huxley followed by sections devoted to his teachings such as biological theological and educational. Huxley was an important biologist and anthropologist earning the nickname of 'Darwin's Bulldog' due to his ardent advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.Illustrated with a frontispiece.Two pages of adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally generally smart. A small amount of loss to the head and tail of the spine. Minor bumping to the extremities. A few light marks to the boards. Spine is a little faded. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Good Broadway Publishing Co hardcover
1977rif. 139440U.S.A.: Stonehill Publishing 1977. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Poor. Book is in excellent condition in chocolate brown cloth with silver lettering on spine. Very clean book. Binding is solid and square covers have sharp corners exterior shows no blemishes text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's stamp a purple flower on front end paper. Dust jacket is tattered with major chipping at top and bottom of spine 1"" tear at top front cover and edge wear now wrapped in clear protective covers not price clipped. Edited by Michael Horowitz and Cynthia Palmer with intros by Albert Hofmann and Alexander Shulgin Keywords: Michael Horowitz Cynthia Palmer Albert Hofmann Alexander Shulgin Stonehill Publishing hardcover
1921rif. 23646London: Chatto and Windus 1921. A first edition first printing published by Chatto and Windus. A very good copy without inscriptions - previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. White label is in very good condition with the green top stain faded but present. Some light off-setting to the endpapers. A little wear to the corners. Beautiful rich colour to the boards with some handling marks - spare label still present to the rear. Aldous Huxley's "Crome Yellow" published in 1921 is a satirical novel that reflects the cultural and intellectual milieu of the early 20th century. Set at an English country estate it offers a dissection of the aristocracy's decline portraying a cast of eccentric characters grappling with existential and intellectual questions. The novel serves as a precursor to Huxley's more famous works including "Brave New World" and explores themes of modernity individualism and the tension between tradition and progress. Through its witty critique of society "Crome Yellow" provides a glimpse into the intellectual concerns of its time and serves as a valuable piece of social and literary history. Chatto and Windus hardcover
1987rif. 240513030Random House UK 1987-11-20. hardcover. Like New. 8x5x1. Like New Inside and Out! Crisp Pages w/no markings!Email for pictures! Random House UK hardcover
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