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1937rif. 140947225London: Chatto & Windus 1937. Signed Deluxe First Edition. Near Fine. Deluxe limited first edition copy #72 of 160 signed by Aldous Huxley on the limitation page. viii 336 pp. Bound in original patterned paper over beveled boards yellow cloth spine lettered in gilt top edge gilt. Near Fine with light soiling and sunning to spine foxing to text block edges and first and last few pages and occasional foxing to margins throughout. Bookseller ticket to front free endpaper. An attractive special edition of this collection of essays by Huxley who analyzes the theories and practices of social reformers. Chatto & Windus unknown
1922rif. 111-5411London: Chatto & Windus 1922. Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full blue cloth. Solid blue topstain. Quarto 229pps. There is modest foxing to the closed page-edges only and the endpapers are tanned. Also the bookplate of esteemed book collector and bibliographist Adrian Homer Goldstone is affixed to the front pastedown. Otherwise clean tight square and bright. All tips are sharp. The paper label on the book's spine-panel denoting the title and the author is in fine clean condition. The dustjacket glossy in a mylar sleeve and whole has general foxing; its spine is unfaded and there are only very minor touches of rubbing wear to the extremities. A very nice collector's-quality copy -- rare in jacket -- of the author's second collection of short stories. Includes 'The Gioconda Smile' 'Permutations among the Nightingales' 'The Tillotson Banquet' 'Green Tunnels' and 'Nuns at Luncheon.' Purchase with confidence: all books gradings and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with your decision photos can be emailed upon request. First Edition. Cloth. Chatto & Windus Hardcover
1928rif. 000013New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1928. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 432pp. Purple boards pale green titles on spine and front board. Spine a bit sunned but titles remain legible. Some wear to spine ends with small nick to foot of spine but spine remains straight binding tight corners solid. Pages clean and unmarked. Signed and briefly inscribed by Huxley on FFEP. Early G&D reissue of Huxley's classic lacking the dust jacket. . Grosset & Dunlap Hardcover
1954rif. AH032London: Chatto & Windus 1954 First edition first printing. Publisher's periwinkle cloth with spine lettered in gilt; in its original multi-colored pictorial dust jacket designed by John Woodcock with an illustration of three eyes with geometric irises to the front panel lettered in white. Very good book with heavy staining to cloth primarily rear board toning to spine ends and upper edges of boards and offsetting to endpapers; very good unclipped dust jacket with heavy toning to spine shallow chipping to spine ends a couple of chips to panel edges and some spotting to panels. Overall a tight attractive copy. The Doors of Perception is Huxley's reflection on a mescaline-induced psychedelic experience he had in May of 1953. After offering himself up as a test subject Huxley was administered a supervised dose and as he explains via William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "the doors of perception were cleansed." In his introduction Huxley explains: "The other world which mescaline admitted me was not the world of visions; it existed out there in what I could see with my eyes open. The great change was in the realm of objective fact . I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle moment by moment of naked existence." While criticized for its promotion of psychedelic drug use The Doors of Perception was also a foundational text for the 1960s counterculture inspiring both Timothy Leary's psychedelic research and Jim Morrison's band The Doors. In 1958 Huxley published a sequel - the essay "Heaven and Hell" which refers to the two possible experiences one will have after breaking through the "doors of perception." . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London: Chatto & Windus hardcover
1954rif. 018London: Chatto & Windus 1954. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition second impression. Tight and square binding in blue cloth; bright gilt; darkened a little at the edges. Flyleaf has a gift inscription to an unnamed previous owner else bright crisp and clean. The unclipped first-state dustwrapper 6s net stated is Very Good: slightly yellowed but bright colours with toning to the spine minor chipping to bottom spine. 63 pp. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1937rif. 140947225London: Chatto & Windus 1937. Signed Deluxe First Edition. Near Fine. Deluxe limited first edition copy #72 of 160 signed by Aldous Huxley on the limitation page. viii 336 pp. Bound in original patterned paper over beveled boards yellow cloth spine lettered in gilt top edge gilt. Near Fine with light soiling and sunning to spine foxing to text block edges and first and last few pages and occasional foxing to margins throughout. Bookseller ticket to front free endpaper. An attractive special edition of this collection of essays by Huxley who analyzes the theories and practices of social reformers. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1954rif. AH032London: Chatto & Windus 1954 First edition first printing. Publisher's periwinkle cloth with spine lettered in gilt; in its original multi-colored pictorial dust jacket designed by John Woodcock with an illustration of three eyes with geometric irises to the front panel lettered in white. Very good book with heavy staining to cloth primarily rear board toning to spine ends and upper edges of boards and offsetting to endpapers; very good unclipped dust jacket with heavy toning to spine shallow chipping to spine ends a couple of chips to panel edges and some spotting to panels. Overall a tight attractive copy. The Doors of Perception is Huxley's reflection on a mescaline-induced psychedelic experience he had in May of 1953. After offering himself up as a test subject Huxley was administered a supervised dose and as he explains via William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "the doors of perception were cleansed." In his introduction Huxley explains: "The other world which mescaline admitted me was not the world of visions; it existed out there in what I could see with my eyes open. The great change was in the realm of objective fact . I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle moment by moment of naked existence." While criticized for its promotion of psychedelic drug use The Doors of Perception was also a foundational text for the 1960s counterculture inspiring both Timothy Leary's psychedelic research and Jim Morrison's band The Doors. In 1958 Huxley published a sequel - the essay "Heaven and Hell" which refers to the two possible experiences one will have after breaking through the "doors of perception." . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London: Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1979rif. 10576HEYNE WILHELM 1979. 1. softcover. HEYNE, WILHELM paperback
rif. 75298London: Chatto and Windus 1932. Dystopian novel FIRST EDITION first impression. Octavo 20 x 14cm pp.8 306 2. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Contents clean no inscriptions edges of text block gently toned joints and extremities rubbed some acceptable marks to covers. A modern highlight and a landmark of 20th century fiction suggesting that a future of boundless materialist happiness designer narcosis and no strings sex might not be all its made out to be. Aldous Huxley was awarded the 1939 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 'After Many A Summer Dies The Swan'. London: Chatto and Windus, 1932 unknown
rif. PSHB8364Chatto & Windus 1954. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very near fine blue boards with gilt spine lettering slight offset strips on endpapers tiny corner rubs pages very clean no foxing or marks at all. In the near fine original dustjacket not price-clipped small repairs to a corner and to spine ends slight spine and flap edge browning. Overall a very nice copy of Huxley's famous essay on his experiences of taking the Mexican Indian drug mescalin. 'A little masterpiece - concise evocative wise andabove all humane' J.Z.Young; 'Mr Huxley's experiment is extraordinary and is beautifully observed'Edwin Muir. Chatto & Windus, 1954 hardcover
1964rif. 1260208vo. blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine; publisher s wrapper 30s net designed by Jonathan Kingdon; who further provides the frontis illustration and another 20 illustrations one double page; two maps showing game parks and nature reserves as well as the seasonal movement of wildebeest; THE BOOK with the usual ghosting from the wrapper design onto the upper board and spine with strip of sunning to the lower edge and a couple of small dents to the extremities; a Very Good clean copy otherwise; the Very Good WRAPPER marginally toned to the spine and lower flap fold; some dark stains and a small hole to the head of the spine; a little rubbed at the foot and to the ends of the front flap fold; evidence of previous tape repair to verso now removed with some residue present. The wrapper remains striking in a removable Brodart archival cover. First edition double signed by the author with a warm inscription 'To VG with all love Elspeth Huxley' to the front free endpaper and flat signed underneath her crossed-out printed name to the title page. The recipient was the publisher Victor Gollancz. Huxley grew up in colonial Kenya where her parents had moved in 1912 to start a new life as coffee farmers. Educated in Nairobi Huxley was strongly influenced by the country she grew up in. Her first book published shortly after her marriage in 1935 focused on Lord Delamere one of the first settlers in Kenya. She went on to pen almost 40 works one of her most notable being Red Strangers an exploration of Kikuyu life in Kenya. Although initially an advocate of continued colonial rule she later called for the independence of African nations. Forks and Hope is the result of the three months Huxley spent in Tanganyika Kenya and Uganda during the year of 1963 during which time she spoke to political leaders visited new Universities and watched the emergence of a new East Africa feeling its way into a future full of ancient enigmas and new hopes wrapper blurb. Visiting Lake Lagarja the grass plains of the eastern Serengeti the Ngorongoro crater and Kipikieri Peak which stands at over 9000ft she kept journals and notes for the duration of her trip. "Writing about modern Africa is like trying to sketch a galloping horse that is out of sight before you have sharpened your pencil she writes. So much is happening - because the scene sparkles with new hopes and plans because nothing is static and nothing seems impossible. Jonathan Kingdon was born in Tanzania in 1935. A zoologist science author and artist he is currently a research associate at the University of Oxford and for most of his life he has devoted to taxonomic illustration and evolution of the mammals of Africa. An interesting association copy. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Chatto & Windus, London hardcover
1939rif. 007307London: Chatto & Windus 1939. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. NB: No dustjacket. Ochre yellow cloth with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Fair covers are generally shelfworn with sunning to spine. Some bumping to lower outer cover corners. Foxing throughout particularly to the first and last few pages. Binding sound. The name Huxley is written on the front endpaper in pencil. 406pp. 16 pages of sepia photographic plates. The book is a novel about life among the Kikuyu and the Masai and the effect of the coming of the white man on their traditional societies. Loosely inserted with the book are two handwritten letters to Elspeth Huxley 1907-1997 from the British paleoanthropologist and archaeologist Louis Leakey 1903-1972. The first letter is dated July 4 1939 and initially Louis Leakey mentions a few corrections that could be made to the facts in the text of Red Strangers. He then goes on to request her help in finding financial supporters for a weekly Kikuyu newspaper that he is thinking of starting. The second letter is undated and may have been enclosed with the first letter as it consists mainly of the detailed corrections that he would like made to the text of Red Strangers assuming that it goes to a second edition. The corrections include details of various tribal initiation rites. Both letters are addressed to "Elspeth" and signed Louis Leakey. Both letters are written in ink on one side only. The first letter is 4 pages long and the second 6 pages. Chatto & Windus Hardcover
rif. 23142Eastbourne 22 June 1891. 4 pp. 7 x 4 inches folds. In good condition. Thomas Henry Huxley 1825-95 the celebrated English biologist known as Darwin's Bulldog for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. unknown
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1996rif. DADAX0198534663OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1996-08-22. 1. hardcover. New. 6.50x1.27x9.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS hardcover
1945rif. 10850Harper & Brothers Publishers. New York. 1945. THIRD EDITION the same year as the first printing. 8vo. 8.1 x 5.1 inches. xi 312pp including index. A very good book in a fine attractive leather binding of full red Morocco. Spine with five raised bands. The compartments ruled lettered and decorated in gilt. Gilt inner dentelles. Top edge gilt. Decorative patterned endpapers printed in green black and red. A hint of rubbing to the extremities but overall a near fine copy. The binding is unsigned but is certainly the work of a master bookbinder. Harper & Brothers Publishers. New York. 1945 hardcover
1921rif. 17426London: Chatto and Windus 1921. A first edition first printing published by Chatto and Windus. A very good copy without inscriptions. White label is in 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. 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
rif. 122952London Chatto & Windus 1928. . First edition first impression trade issue; 8vo; publisher's orange cloth titles to spine gilt red topstain slightly faded with the unclipped dustjacket spine panel tanned with faded red embellishment light dust-soiling creasing to head and foot of spine panel with two small splits at foot; very good indeed. One of Huxley's greatest books. Produced in somewhat oversized format compared to most of his other Chatto publications and vulnerable as such issued in a cream dustjacket with some red embellishment - one of the most fugitive colours in the printer's arsenal - and with a red topstain much given to fading. This is one of the better copies we've seen. London, Chatto & Windus, 1928. hardcover
1981rif. 53432LONGMAN 1981. 9. softcover. LONGMAN paperback
1959rif. 37219Chatto & Windus 1959. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco sides with gilt frame border back with raised bands second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt gilt top hand-made endpapers red silk marker custom-made slip-case an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Cross and Perkin A.24. Chatto & Windus, hardcover
1939rif. 3117991London: Chatto & Windus. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1939. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. 314pp. Trace of toning to blank prelimnaries. Spine lightly age toned. Neatly applied clear tape mends on interior of jacket. Couple tiny chips at corners of jacket. Copy presents well. Huxley's masterful satire of William Randolph Hearst and the Hollywood scene.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 314 pages . Chatto & Windus hardcover
1928rif. COLLECTI014756IGARDEN CITY NEW YORK: DOUBLEDAY DORAN & CO INC. FINE IN A VG D.J. 1928. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. BROMER A18.4.1 . PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL LIGHT GREEN CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH TAN PAPER TITLE LABEL TO THE SPINE WITHE LIGHT GREY DECORATED ENDPAPERS AND TOP EDGE STAINED PURPLE. THE BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. THE PALE GREEN PRINTED D.J. HAS SOME MODEST LOSS TO THE CORNERS AND SPINE-ENDS WITH A TRACE OF DUSTING AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AN EXCE LLENT CLEAN BRIGHT UNFADED COPY. . DOUBLEDAY DORAN & CO, INC hardcover
1946rif. 3280Budapest: Franklin 1946. First Hungarian edition. In origianl cloth with wrappers. Very good condition. First Hungarian edition. In origianl cloth with wrappers. 160 p. Franklin unknown
1946rif. 3289Budapest: Pantheon Kiadás 1946. Early Hungarian edition. In publisher’s cloth. With the rare jacket. Cover chipped little bit damaged. Inside fine condition. Early Hungarian edition. In publisher’s cloth. With the rare jacket. 256 p. Scarce Hungarian edition of Aldous Huxley’s 1894–1963 novel the “Brave New World” which was originally published in 1932. Pantheon Kiadás unknown
1934rif. 1573Budapest: Pantheon Kiadás 1934. First Hungarian edition. In publisher’s blue cloth. Guilt publisher’s stamp on cover. Gilt title on spine. Publisher’s stamp on half tilte. Flyleaf torn out. Otherwise in very good condition. First Hungarian edition. In publisher’s blue cloth. Guilt publisher’s stamp on cover. Gilt title on spine. Publisher’s stamp on half tilte. Flyleaf torn out. 256 p. Scarce first Hungarian edition of Aldous Huxley’s 1894–1963 novel the “Brave New World” which was originally published in 1932. Pantheon Kiadás unknown
