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1938réf. 179852New York: Spanish Child Welfare Association of the American Friends Service Committee 1938. The elaborate bestiality of modern war First edition signed limited issue number 57 of 100 copies signed by Huxley. Created to raise money for the Quakers to distribute food in Spain the pioneering collection gathers 60 artworks produced by children during the Spanish Civil War. This copy retains the scarce donation form. An accompanying exhibition opened at the Lord & Taylor department store in New York City then travelled to museums in Boston and Worcester. By shining a light on the lives of children within Spain the project "was not just about denouncing the situation endured by these minors. They meant to open up a space where the latter could directly retell their own experiences" Fernández-Fontecha. This was one of the first times that "the image of children as innocent victims was visually developed within a war context" and contemporaneously to the conflict Fernández-Fontecha. Octavo. Captioned illustrations throughout. Original spiral-bound red card wrappers silver title label printed in blue on front cover. Rubbing to extremities nick to foot of front wrapper occasional offsetting from captions. A very good copy. Bromer B54.2. Leticia Fernández-Fontecha quoted in "Eighty years later book of children's drawings prefaced by Aldous Huxley sees the light in Spain" El País 16 July 2019. unknown
1863réf. 32820395Original cloth paper spine label chipped. Very good. Cloth case FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. From the library of Millard Fillmore 13th president of the United States 1850-1853 with his signatures dated May 22 1863 on the title and on the front pastedown. Huxley "Darwin's bulldog" was the leading defender and promoter of Darwinism in the years following the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859. In this popular work Huxley attempts to "disencumber the subject of its difficulties simplify its statements relieve it of technicalities and bring it so distinctly within the horizon of ordinary apprehension that persons of common sense may judge for themselves. … Such is the character of the present volume" preface. This volume reflects the wide dissemination of Darwin's ideas in the 1860s. Appleton hardcover
réf. 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
réf. 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
1932réf. 7552London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First Edition First Printing. First edition first printing with no additional printings listed on the copyright page. Signed by the author Aldous Huxley on a professionally tipped in page from a signed limited edition therefore the authenticity is guaranteed. Finely bound in navy leather with raised bands to the spine and with marbled endsheets. Measures approximately 7.75" x 5.25" with 306 numbered pages. This book is in very good condition. Gilt lettering and design on the spine still bright and well preserved. Binding is tight and the textblock is free of any previous ownership marks. Moderate foxing to the textblock. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # P4-79. Chatto & Windus unknown
1932réf. 7553London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First UK Edition First Impression SIGNED. First edition first impression with no additional printings listed on the copyright page. Signed by the author Aldous Huxley on a professionally tipped in page from a signed limited edition therefore the authenticity is guaranteed. Measuring approximately 7.75" x 5.25" with 306 numbered pages. Comes with a facsimile reproduction dust jacket for protection and display. This book is in very good minus condition. Moderate surface wear and staining to the original cloth boards. Minor sun fading to the spine. Minor scattered soiling to the textblock. Old bookseller ticket at the bottom of the rear pastedown. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # P12-21. Chatto & Windus unknown
1916réf. 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
1916réf. 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
1932réf. 000930Chatto and Windus 1932. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Dust Jacket Included. First edition first impression published by Chatto & Windus in 1932. Huxley's seminal work and a classic of modern literature. Unclipped dust jacket has strong colours with loss to the spine ends and also into the adjoining panels with some small tears and chipping to the corners and some creasing. Jacket is now in a very tidy removable protective wrapper. Blue covers bright gilt lettering to the spine slight lean or spine curve secure binding blue top edge bottom edge of pages untrimmed a few spots to the edge of the page block pages otherwise bright and tidy. Good condition. Chatto and Windus hardcover
1933réf. 86332Reliure de l'époque plein maroquin noir. Dos à nerfs, filets à froid sur les plats. Tête dorée. Non rogné. Manque angulaire sur l'intégralité des témoins. Un portrait de l'auteur (coupure de presse) collé sur garde blanche. Gardes légèrement ombrées.
1973réf. 37095PIPER REINHARD 1973. 1. hardcover. PIPER, REINHARD hardcover
1932réf. 150336London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery hand-made Italian marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Boldly signed and dated by Aldous Huxley on a page bound-in. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation rare and desirable signed. "A nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science… easily Huxley's most popular and many good judges continue to think his best novel" DNB. "After the success of his first three novels Huxley abandoned the fictional milieu of literary London and directed his satire toward an imagined future. He admitted that the original idea of Brave New World was to challenge H.G. Wells' Utopian vision… The novel also marks Huxley's increasing disenchantment with the world which was to result in his leaving England for California in 1937 in search of a more spiritual life. The book was immediately successful" Parker & Kermode 161-62. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1932réf. 6464London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First Edition First Printing. First edition first printing with no additional printings listed on the copyright page. Signed by the author Aldous Huxley on a professionally tipped in page from a signed limited edition therefore the authenticity is guaranteed. Finely bound in tan leather with raised bands to the spine and marbled boards. Measures approximately 7.75" x 5.25" with 306 numbered pages. This book is in near fine condition. Gilt lettering and design on the spine still bright and well preserved. Binding is tight and the textblock is free of any previous ownership marks. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # O8-57. Chatto & Windus unknown
1932réf. 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
1932réf. 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
1932réf. 171755London: Chatto & Windus 1932. But I don't want comfort. I want God I want poetry I want real danger I want freedom I want goodness. I want sin First edition first impression in the dust jacket. Huxley's enduring dystopian novel which meditates on the negative consequences of eliminating unhappiness turned him into the most famous British novelist of the inter-war period. Octavo. Original blue cloth spine lettered in gilt top edge blue bottom edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Spine cocked and lightly faded gilt bright rubbing to extremities fading to blue dye at top edge foxing to edges contents clean; unclipped jacket slightly rubbed and nicked 1.5 cm chip to spine head with partial loss to first word spine toned panels bright blue dye transfer on verso: a very good copy in like jacket. Bleiler Supernatural Fiction p. 267; Bromer A29.3.1; Eschelbach & Shober 10; Locke Spectrum of Fantasy p. 120. hardcover
1932réf. 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
1932réf. 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
1932réf. 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
1932réf. 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
1932réf. 125732The First UK printing published by Chatto and Windus London in 1932. The BOOK is in Very Good or better condition. Original blue boards with slight fading of the blue colouring to the spine. Gilt titling and decoration remain vibrant. Light pushing at the spine ends and a tiny bump to the lower rear corner. Neat 'Henry Sotheran' bookseller sticker to the lower front pastedown. Free from inscriptions. A hint of toning to the text-block and extreme page edges. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good condition. It is correctly priced at '7s. 6d.net' to the front tower flap. A few rubbed areas to the upper spine end with a little loss not involving the lettering. Some rubbing to the folds and corners and small losses at the upper corners. Light edgewear with a few nicks and small closed tears in places and a light horizontal scratch to the rear panel. Light toning to the spine. The wrapper artwork looks striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. A nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science. Easily Huxley's most popular and many good judges continue to think his best novel' DNB. 'After the success of his first three novels Huxley abandoned the fictional milieu of literary London and directed his satire toward an imagined future. He admitted that the original idea of Brave New World was to challenge H.G. Wells' Utopian vision. The novel also marks Huxley's increasing disenchantment with the world which was to result in his leaving England for California in 1937 in search of a more spiritual life. The book was immediately successful' Parker & Kermode 161-62. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century. Housed in a custom solander box with gilt titling marbled inserts and a silk tie. A sharp copy of an increasingly elusive title to find in collectible condition. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Chatto and Windus, London hardcover
réf. 128531London: Bridgeman Images 2017. Edition of 50. Each print signed in pencil lower right by the artist and numbered lower left three of the prints are also titled lower middle. This limited edition folio features specially commissioned lithographs by six Royal Academicians and was printed by the Paupers Press. Ten per cent of profits from the initial sales are to be donated to the Royal Academy Schools. Folio. 6 original lithographs on heavy wove paper. Sheet sizes: 62 x 75 cm or 75 x 62 cm. Original blue cloth clamshell box with titles to front cover blind stamped. Title page with statement of limitation hand numbered. All in excellent condition. hardcover
réf. 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
réf. 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
1980réf. SBBIH-4XZ7B3EMVQRPPrentice Hall Press 1980. paperback. Acceptable. Please see the condition note after this for details if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining water damage writing missing dustjacket etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Prentice Hall Press paperback
