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1932Best.-Nr. 23778London: Chatto and Windus 1932. A first edition first printing of Brave New Wold published by Chatto and Windus in 1932. A very good book without inscriptions - some internal spotting and browning to the pages - sumptuously bound in full leather with five raised bands with gilt titling to the spine. Marbled endpapers A superb item of this dystopian novel. Chatto and Windus hardcover
1926Best.-Nr. 195191Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1926. First edition signed limited issue one of 106 copies signed by the author on the half-title. The poems in the volume were previously collected in The Burning Wheel 1916 and The Defeat of Youth 1918. Octavo. Original quarter japon spine lettered in gilt red and brown patterned sides front cover lettered in red edges uncut. Spine darkened spine ends bumped wear to corners split to foot of front inner hinge. A very good copy. Bromer A13.2 unknown
1926Best.-Nr. 000840Chatto and Windus 1926. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Signed first limited edition published by Chatto & Windus at The Florence Press in 1926. Limited to 650 copies this is number 79 signed by the author. Bright unclipped dustjacket with original price of 42s foxing to the inside plus some light spots to the flaps and edge spine a little tanned the top of the spine has a bump and scuff same for one fore edge tip another with a small chip. Marbled paper covered boards blue cloth or buckram spine bright gilt lettering to the spine slight tanning to the edges of the boards secure binding with a lean. Top edge gilt is bright fore edge rough cut with light spotting to the edge of the page block. Endpapers also spotted plus a few pages with very light spots but generally clean and bright pages without previous owners inscriptions. Good condition. The jacket is now in a removable protective wrapper. Chatto and Windus hardcover
1928Best.-Nr. 000817Chatto and Windus 1928. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Signed First limited edition published by Chatto and Windus in 1928 limited to 256 copies of which this is number 113. Green cloth or buckram covers with a smooth feel spine tanned some rubbing to the bottom edge of spine gilt lettering to spine gilt top edge fore edge and bottom edge of pages untrimmed with a number being uncut at the bottom. Text block sags a little binding weave visible at the front and rear endpapers but all remains secure. Pages a little age toned but clean and without inscriptions. Good condition. 601 Pages 21.5x15.5cm. Chatto and Windus hardcover
1862Best.-Nr. 001928London: Robert Hardwicke 1862. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Small slim 8vo pp157 2 pages of adverts with small b/w illustrations in the text to pages 9 11 15 36 and 40. Hardcover no dust jacket. Binding of green cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind stamped designs to boards and spine in very good condition with a little rubbing to edges and tips. Inside starting to crack pages 106/107 but all pages still well bound and secure and in lovely clean and bright condition with no foxing marking or aging. Dubbing himself 'Darwin's bulldog' Huxley is primarily known as a popularizer of Darwin's theory and also for his war with theology and consequently invented what he conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'. From 1860 to 1863 Huxley developed his ideas presenting them in lectures to working men students and the general public followed by publication. Also in 1862 a series of talks to working men was printed lecture by lecture as pamphlets later bound up as a little green book; the first copies went on sale in December and prompted Darwin to write in dismay to Huxley stating of his six lectures "They are simply perfect" even though Huxley himself did not intend them to be widely circulated. An excellent copy of this very scarce first clothbound edition. Robert Hardwicke hardcover
1919Best.-Nr. 3437London: The Bomb Shop / Hendersons 1919. Very good. A wonderful collection of all six volumes of this short-lived literary journal focusing on modernist poetry. Aldous Huxley and Conrad Aiken were editors and contributors. T.S. Eliot's poem "A Cooking Egg" was first published herein. No. 6/7 contains a previously unpublished Oscar Wilde poem "To M. B.-J." Housed in what is presumably an original black clamshell with Bomb Shop on the spine though we've yet to see any other of these clamshells on the market. A truly outstanding collection of interwar poetry and art. Scarce in this condition as a full set. The Bomb Shop / Hendersons unknown
1913Best.-Nr. 106259London: Smith Elder & Co. 1913. 2nd ed. two volumes original cloth boards with gilt titles profusely illustrated with plates and maps frontis portraits of Scott and Wilson. Vol. I: pp xxvi 633 large folding map at end. Vol. II: pp xiv 534 large folding map at end. Second edition published the same year as the first. Complete. Some very light scattered foxing otherwise contents and images clean. Bound in half leather ornately decorated gilt spines top edges gilt other edges uncut. Binding by Cottage Bindery Bath with binder's stamp to rear paste-down first volume. Very good condition. Fine binding of the two volume second edition set printed same year as the first. The ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition of 1910-1913. Includes Captain Robert Falcon Scott's journals and reports from various members of the expedition. Profusely illustrated: "photogravure frontispieces 6 original sketches in photogravure by Dr Wilson 18 coloured plates 16 from drawings by Dr Wilson 260 full-page and smaller illustrations. panoramas and maps". 2nd Edition. Half leather. Smith, Elder & Co hardcover
Best.-Nr. Z1-C-049-01179BiblioBazaar. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. Book is new and unread but may have minor shelf wear. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. BiblioBazaar unknown
Best.-Nr. Z1-B-007-01753Kessinger Publishing. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. This is a reproduction of an out of print title. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. that were either part of the original artifact or were introduced by the scanning process. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Kessinger Publishing unknown
Best.-Nr. Z1-I-001-01625Good Practices in Mental Health. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Good Practices in Mental Health unknown
1932Best.-Nr. 008502New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1932. First U.S. edition first printing trade issue. Hardcover. This is the first U.S. edition first printing trade issue very good in a good dust jacket. The brown cloth binding is tight and respectably clean with a slight forward lean bruised lower rear corner and some dulling of the gilt at the center spine and spine ends. The contents are clean with no spotting no soiling strong red topstain and only mild age-toning. The sole previous owner mark contemporary is initials surname and Dartmouth 35 inked on the upper front pastedown. FIRST EDITION is so stated on the title page verso. Slight differential toning to the endpapers corresponding to the dust jacket flaps testifies that this copy has spent life jacketed. The dust jacket is unclipped retaining the original $2.50 upper front flap price and substantially complete with minor loss substantially confined to the flap fold and spine extremities. The jacket shows moderate overall soiling and toning wear to extremities and a closed tear extending 1.5 inches up from the lower flap fold and angling an additional 2 inches across the lower front face. The dust jacket is protected beneath a clear removable archival cover. In summer 1932 Huxley published Brave New World which enhanced his fortunes and reputation as the best-known British novelist between the wars. It was an international best-seller particularly in paperback editions in the 1950s and was translated into twenty-eight languages. The novel the first about human cloning is a dystopia set five centuries in the future when overpopulation has led to biogenetic engineering. Through computerized genetic selection social engineers create a population happy with its lot. All the earth's children are born in hatcheries and Soma a get-happy pill irons out most problems. ODNB One imagines reading such a book this very book about a dystopian utopia at the very moment when Hitlers Reich with its racially homogenous "Volksgemeinschaft aspirations was ascending seemingly unopposed. When it was ostensibly read by the Dartmouth student who owned it in the mid-1930s they may have reasonably assumed themselves on the safe side of the Atlantic Ocean far from both literary and actual dystopia. Less than a decade later Hitlers purportedly Aryan armies invaded the low countries and France the Wehrmachts legions equipped with millions of Pervitin pills a belligerent equivalent of Soma allowing soldiers to stay awake for days at a time and march many more miles without rest. One wonders if the Dartmouth student who owned this copy was part of the vast American force that helped to scourge Europe. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. hardcover
1960Best.-Nr. 148084New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1960. First edition of this classic collection of essays. Octavo original cloth. Boldly signed by the Aldous Huxley on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed. Aldous Huxley 1894–1963 best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World was also a prolific essayist whose work explored a wide range of intellectual and artistic subjects. On Art and Artists is a collection of Huxley’s essays that examines the role of art in society the nature of creativity and the relationship between artistic expression and human perception. Drawing from his broad knowledge of literature philosophy and aesthetics Huxley offers insightful critiques of various artistic movements and figures emphasizing the transformative power of art. His essays reflect his characteristic blend of wit erudition and skepticism positioning him as a keen observer of cultural and artistic trends. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
1928Best.-Nr. 140949258London: Chatto & Windus 1928. Signed Limited First Edition. Very Good. Limited first edition. Number 237 of 256 copies signed by Aldous Huxley on the limitation page at front. viii 601 1 pp. Bound in publisher's apple green cloth over beveled boards with spine lettered in gilt top edge gilt. Very Good with sunning to spine and light rubbing to extremities. Hinges cracked light offsetting to endpapers short tear to front free endpaper. A signed first edition of Huxley's bestselling roman a clef about his friendship with D.H. Lawrence who wrote: "I have read Point Counter Point with a heart sinking through my boot-soles and a rising admiration." Versions of Katherine Mansfield Nancy Cunard and other famous writers and artists appear in this satire of interwar British society. It is Huxley's most complex novel and a cornerstone of his reputation. Chatto & Windus unknown
1928Best.-Nr. 140949258London: Chatto & Windus 1928. Signed Limited First Edition. Very Good. Limited first edition. Number 237 of 256 copies signed by Aldous Huxley on the limitation page at front. viii 601 1 pp. Bound in publisher's apple green cloth over beveled boards with spine lettered in gilt top edge gilt. Very Good with sunning to spine and light rubbing to extremities. Hinges cracked light offsetting to endpapers short tear to front free endpaper. A signed first edition of Huxley's bestselling roman a clef about his friendship with D.H. Lawrence who wrote: "I have read Point Counter Point with a heart sinking through my boot-soles and a rising admiration." Versions of Katherine Mansfield Nancy Cunard and other famous writers and artists appear in this satire of interwar British society. It is Huxley's most complex novel and a cornerstone of his reputation. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1959Best.-Nr. 110441London: Chatto & Windus 1959. First edition of Huxley's autobiographical work based on her early life among white settlers on her father's coffee plantation in Kenya. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Elspeth Huxley on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rosemary Seligman. Uncommon signed. Elspeth Huxley prolifically wrote thirty books but she is best known for her lyrical books The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard. Both are based on her experiences growing up in a coffee farm in Colonial Kenya. Her husband Gervas Huxley was related to both Thomas and Aldous Huxley Lownie 2006. A year after the publication of The Flame Trees of Thika Huxley was appointed an independent member of the Advisory Commission for the Review of the Constitution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. She was an advocate of colonialism early in life and later called for independence for African countries Ibid. In the 1960s she served as a correspondent for the National Review magazine. It was later made into the well received television series originally airing in 1981. Chatto & Windus hardcover
Best.-Nr. D197064pp. London 178 x 108 mm. Creased where folded light soiling small dampstain in upper margin but very good. Huxley states that he is sending Dunn a copy of his paper on the brain of Ateles paniscus Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1861 which contains full details of "transverse" convolutions found in the brains of the great majority of the apes and which in the higher members of that group are exceedingly well developed. He adds that the equivalent part of the brain in carnivores has not been fully compared with that in primates. The article formed part of the longstanding debate between Huxley and Richard Owen over Owen's classification of mammals 1857 in which Owen argued primate brains; his demonstration that man must be zoologically be considered one of correspondent was a surgeon with a strong interest in the human brain and mind; he was the author of several works on psychology anthropology ethnology etc. Any ALS from Huxley discussing brain comparative anatomy is rare. Robert Dunn was an eminent surgeon with a strong interest in brain and mind. Huxley's paper on the paper "On the Brain of tge Ateles" was important in providing definitive evidence that man's brain does not contain any unique structures not present in the brains of Apes thus disproving Owen's theory. He cites this work in his major work Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature. unknown
Best.-Nr. D197064pp. London 178 x 108 mm. Creased where folded light soiling small dampstain in upper margin but very good. Huxley states that he is sending Dunn a copy of his paper on the brain of Ateles paniscus Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1861 which contains full details of "transverse" convolutions found in the brains of the great majority of the apes and which in the higher members of that group are exceedingly well developed. He adds that the equivalent part of the brain in carnivores has not been fully compared with that in primates. The article formed part of the longstanding debate between Huxley and Richard Owen over Owen's classification of mammals 1857 in which Owen argued primate brains; his demonstration that man must be zoologically be considered one of correspondent was a surgeon with a strong interest in the human brain and mind; he was the author of several works on psychology anthropology ethnology etc. Any ALS from Huxley discussing brain comparative anatomy is rare. Robert Dunn was an eminent surgeon with a strong interest in brain and mind. Huxley's paper on the paper "On the Brain of tge Ateles" was important in providing definitive evidence that man's brain does not contain any unique structures not present in the brains of Apes thus disproving Owen's theory. He cites this work in his major work Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 47601By his son Leonard Huxley. London : Macmillan and Co. 1900 First printed October 1900 this the November 1900 reprint. Two volumes octavo in fine prize bindings for Sydney Grammar School full polished calf ruled in gilt with floral corner emblems the school's armorial crest with motto Schola Grammatica Sydneiensis on upper board Wigram Allen Prize stamped below spines in compartments with raised bands gilt tooling and contrasting morocco title labels lettered in gilt marbled edges and endpapers pp. viii; 2; 503; vi; 2; 504 engraved and photogravures plates preliminaries lightly foxed a fine copy. Tipped in to the first volume is an original holograph letter from Thomas Huxley four pages black bordered notepaper dated 'Jermyn St. Dec. 19th 1860' addressed to 'My dear Sir Alfred Stephen' stating that 'now my Lecture is over there are many things that must be done and are piling up' regretting that time did not permit their meeting up before Sir Alfred's return voyage to Australia. Thomas Huxley writes to the Chief Justice of New South Wales about his Lecture now known as 'The Great Debate' on Darwinian theory. In 1860 Thomas Henry Huxley was pitted against Bishop Samuel Wilberforce in an informal public debate on Darwinian theory which focused on the scientific evidence for evolution and its compatibility with a literal interpretation of the Bible. Known as 'Darwin's Bulldog' Huxley was one of Charles Darwin's key advocates and public interest in the subject was high as the On the Origin of Species had only been published months earlier in November 1859. Taking place at Oxford University this contest of ideas is known as the Huxley-Wilberforce debate the 1860 Oxford Evolution debate or simply the Great Debate. The debate is remembered for a key exchange where Wilberforce questioned Huxley about his potential ape ancestry. While accounts of the exact wording differ a review by The Victorian Web suggests Wilberforce asked if Huxley's lineage was through his grandfather or grandmother. Huxley's response emphasizing his preference for an ape ancestor over someone who would use their position to obscure the truth is seen as a significant moment in the public acceptance of evolutionary theory. Sir Alfred Stephen GCMG CB PC 20 August 1802 – 15 October 1894 was an Australian judge and Chief Justice of New South Wales from 1845 – 1873 including at the time this letter was written. This books on Huxley were awarded to James Farish Stephen a descendent in about the year 1900 and the letter which had been passed down through the family has been tipped-in to the first volume. James Stephen's obituary appeared in The Sydneian no. 358 July 1967: 'JAMES FARISH STEPHEN James Farish Stephen 1901 died in December last. Mr. Stephen had a distinguished academic record at School winning the following prizes:- 1902 - Morehead Scholarship. 1895 1901 - Knox Prizes. 1901 - Wigram Allen Prize Mathematics. 1900 Wigram Allen Prize Natural Science. He was a life Member of the Old Sydneians' Union.' A finely bound copy of this detailed textbook on this important set of works written by Huxley's son with an original manuscript letter by Huxley. Â hardcover
1932Best.-Nr. 04995BRAVE NEW WORLD Doubleday Doran 1932 first American edition spine and margins of covers lightened else a tight vg copy in a near vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and chipping mostly to the base of the dust-wrapper spine and adjoining section of the rear dust-wrapper panel. Strangely much less common than its' British counterpart. Doubleday, Doran unknown
1932Best.-Nr. 04995BRAVE NEW WORLD Doubleday Doran 1932 first American edition spine and margins of covers lightened else a tight vg copy in a near vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and chipping mostly to the base of the dust-wrapper spine and adjoining section of the rear dust-wrapper panel. Strangely much less common than its' British counterpart. Doubleday, Doran unknown books
1959Best.-Nr. 129827London: Chatto & Windus 1959. First edition of Huxley's autobiographical work based on her early life among white settlers on her father's coffee plantation in Kenya. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Elspeth Huxley on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket bookplate to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Rosemary Seligman. Uncommon signed. Elspeth Huxley prolifically wrote thirty books but she is best known for her lyrical books The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard. Both are based on her experiences growing up in a coffee farm in Colonial Kenya. Her husband Gervas Huxley was related to both Thomas and Aldous Huxley Lownie 2006. A year after the publication of The Flame Trees of Thika Huxley was appointed an independent member of the Advisory Commission for the Review of the Constitution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. She was an advocate of colonialism early in life and later called for independence for African countries Ibid. In the 1960s she served as a correspondent for the National Review magazine. It was later made into the well received television series originally airing in 1981. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1963Best.-Nr. 149296Boston: Little Brown and Company 1963. First edition of this 1963 scientific progress conference anthology. Octavo original publisher's cloth with eight illustrations. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ira Goldblatt. Uncommon in this condition. Man and His Future is an anthology derived from a 1963 London symposium sponsored by the Ciba Foundation that brought together sixteen internationally recognized biologists to discuss the long-term prospects of human evolution and scientific progress. Among its most significant contributions is J. B. S. Haldane’s essay “Biological Possibilities for the Human Species in the Next Ten Thousand Years” which contains what is widely regarded as the first scientific reference to the concept of human cloning—marking the initial use of the terms “clone” and “cloning” outside of agricultural contexts. The collection also features a contribution by Julian Huxley whose evolutionary humanism and familial connection to Brave New World underscore the intersection of science and speculative ethics. Little, Brown and Company hardcover
Best.-Nr. 123099London Chatto & Windus 1932. . First edition; 8vo 18.5 x 13 cm; slight age toning to text block as usual occasional small spot or mark throughout otherwise very good internal condition; modern full aquamarine morocco one-line gilt-panelled back by Bayntun Riviere gilt dentelles cockerel endpapers all edges gilt mild age-toning fading to spine otherwise a handsome finely-bound first edition; viii 306pp 4pp. A very good first edition example of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World in a modern fine-binding by Bayntun Riviere. This groundbreaking and chilling dystopian classic is set in the futuristic World State whose citizens are engineered into a social caste system based on their intelligence. The social hierarchy is challenged by the novel's protagonist and sleep-learning specialist Bernard Max as he fights against the psychological conditioning of the State. The novel has consistently been ranked among the Top 100 books of the 20th Century. London, Chatto & Windus, 1932. unknown
1920Best.-Nr. 016460London. Paris: X. M. Boulestin by the Chelsea Book Club 1920. Number 34 of 50 copies on Japon from an edition of 620 this copy with the scarce errata slip.127pp with 9 plates. Bound in original white buckram with gilt lettering top gilt edge other rough. Cloth lightly dustdirt marked. Binding in very goood condition. Internally pages clean. A very nice copy. F. Limited Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. X. M. Boulestin by the Chelsea Book Club Hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 500339"Aldous Huxley" Llano CA March 1 1946. A letter with fine literary content to Gerald Kahan concerning the film rights to "Brave New World": "Your letter has been forwarded to me from Harpers. The dramatic rights to Brave New World were given some years ago to a man who is at present raising such difficulties about his rights that a projected screen version of the book has had to be abandoned. This being so I cannot grant permission for a dramatization such as you propose. It would only complicate a situation which is difficult and unpleasant enough as it is. But such alas is life." 4to 1 page with holgraphed addressed envelope signed "Huxley" in return address portion.
