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1871rif. S14437New York:: D. Appleton 1871. 1871. 12mo. xi 1 378 6 pp. Ads; occasional light pencil marks in margins. Original full blind-stamped brick-red cloth gilt-stamped spine; rebacked with original spine mounted inner joints reinforced. Bookplate and embossed stamp of the Carnegie Institution Mount Wilson Observatory; signature of R. S. Woodward. Very good. SIGNED BY ROBERT SIMPSON WOODWARD. First American edition. Chapters XII and XIII are devoted to Darwin's The Origin of Species and the subsequent criticisms. PROVENANCE: Robert Simpson Woodward 1849-1924 physicist mathematician and geophysicist was president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 1904-1921. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1896. In 1898-1900 he was president of the American Mathematical Society and in 1900 he became President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1902 he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society. D. Appleton, 1871. hardcover books
1937rif. 2226Oxford: Printed by John Johnson at the Oxford University Press for The Oxford Society 1937. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Pp. 62 followed by 10 pages of Oxford businesses. Generously illustrated with black and white photography plans and reproductions of old etchings. Bound in stiff paper wraps printed in blue and yellow and featuring the Oxford crest on the front cover. Edges a bit age-toned with short closed tears. Please see photo. Laid in is a printed letter from Lord Halifax unsigned addressed to the Vice Chancellor of Balliol expressing sympathy with the effort to raise funds for Oxford. Halifax has also contributed the introduction. Essentially a prospectus soliciting funds for the expansion of the Bodleian Library. Includes many photos of the library as is with librarians contending with the cataloging of stacks of recent acquisitions stacks in the Sheldonian Cellars students studying etc. as well as a photo of the architectural model for the expansion. Contributors include considering the Bodleian in from many perspectives include Greene Powicke Craster Gilbert Scott Julian Huxley Lindsay Mitchell Lindemann Tizard et al. Printed by John Johnson at the Oxford University Press for The Oxford Society paperback
rif. U-17-384858866Hardcover. Good. Ex-school library in decent dust jacket not price clipped. Fast Daily Shipping! hardcover
1959rif. 3585443828Harper & Row Publishers 1959. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Moderate wear to the dust jacket with creasing and tearing; foxing to the inside of the dust jacket. Moderate wear to the boards. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. This could have light cosmetic flaws but remains in good condition. Dust jacket condition is Good. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Harper & Row, Publishers hardcover
1963rif. 5185New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1963. First American Edition. First American edition. Measuring approximately8.5" x 5.25" with 118 numbered pages. This book is in good plus condition. Moderate bumping to both ends of spine. Moderate sunning around all edges of both boards. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Dust jacket is in good condition. Moderate chipping to both ends of spine and around all edges of jacket. Minor staining and scuffing to both panels. Original 3.50 price on front flap. 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 #N10-52. Harper & Row, Publishers unknown
1971rif. 333634London: Chatto and Windus 1971. Reprint. hardcover. very good/very good. 8vo. pp.229 Chatto and Windus hardcover
1931rif. 1136515Chatto & Windus 1931. Hard cover. Fair/No jacket. First edition. Cover corners are bumped and worn. Spine is tanned but text is legible. Spine is lightly bumped and cracked but all pages remain attached to binding. Fore edge and bottom edge of text block are foxed. Inside pages are foxed but unmarked and text is legible. Chatto & Windus unknown
1927rif. rbr2-046Some foxing on outer edges; bottom edges rough cut pages. Bright and perfect. Green stain top edge. Foxing on pages 17 and 24. Pencil marks on pages 50 64 86 155 184 185 186 187 209 226 230 255 270. Chattto & Windus hardcover
rif. 89442Istanbul: Iletisim Yayinlari. Paperback. New. In Turkish. Iletisim Yayinlari paperback
1943rif. 580Crown 1943. Hardcover. Good/fair. Oversize Hardback with Dust Jacket which has edge wear small rips unmarked interior no edition stated Crown hardcover
1959rif. 320230Chatto & Windus 1959. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Chatto & Windus 1959. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with spotting to page ends. Dust jacket is very good with shelf wear and "Book Society" band wrapped around. An excellent copy of this vintage and prolific biographical work. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor New York. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1943rif. 330191New York: Crown 1943. hardcover. very good/very good-. Goya. Foreward by Aldous Huxley. Illustrated with numerous sepia plates. Not paginated. 4to red printed boards with gray cloth spine d.w. New York: Crown 1943. First edition. Some spotting to the fore-edges else a near fine copy in very good- dust wrapper. Crown unknown
1895rif. 096058London: Williams and Norgate 1895. Hardcover. Poor/No Dust Jackets. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1026 pp. Volume I: 215 pp. Volume II: 240 pp. Volume III: 276 pp. Volume IV: 295 pp. PLEASE NOTE: This is an EX-LIBRARY SET with all the standard ex-library markings. There is bumping to the corners. There is pencil underlining and notations in volume III. Fading to the cloth on the spines. Williams and Norgate hardcover
1947rif. mon0003435150John Murray 1947. Hardcover. Good. . 2 vols. Spines a little faded. Minor shelf/age wear. Pages/boards clean. John Murray hardcover
1939rif. Fiction-HuxleyHarper & Brothers New York 1939 Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Clay colored textured cloth on boards with gilt linings and blue title label to front and spine. Book is tight slight spine slant sharp-cornered and Very Good. No jacket. Stated as Tenth Edition on copyright page but only date is 1939. Code B-P. First US edition. 356 pp. octavo original maroon cloth. The story has been interpreted as contemptuous nod to the Hearstian reality of the United States in the early part of the 20th century: Jo Stoyte is an allegory for William Randolph Hearst by his acquisitions of art etc. and living in an opulent estatesimilar to Hearst Castlewith Virginia who can be taken as a parody of Marion Davies. Orson Welles may have been inspired by this novelafter RKO Radio Pictures rejected Welles's two earlier ideas for scriptsto write the screenplay for Citizen Kane with Herman Mankiewicz although their screenplay is very different from the novel. The novel won Huxley the 1939 James Tait Black Memorial Prize which boosted sales. This was the first book Huxley published after moving to California. American readers were fascinated it was his Hollywood novel skewering U.S. wealth immortality obsessions and LA culture. That made it especially marketable in the States. While Harper didnt announce exact numbers typical serious novels of the late 1930s might have 20005000 copies per printing. Ten printings could easily mean 2500040000 copies sold in the first year a strong commercial showing for a literary novel at the time. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Harper & Brothers, New York hardcover
2000rif. 189287Chicago IL: Ivan R. Dee Publishers 2000. First edition. Uncorrected proofs of the first two volumes of the essays for Aldous Huxley. Edited and with commentary by Robert S. Baker and James Sexton. Book books in near fine condition in printed wrappers with some minor wear. Ivan R. Dee, Publishers unknown
1925rif. 000239New York: Sun Dial Press 1925. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 350pp. Purple boards orange designs and black titles on spine and front board. Clean tight copy of the book with patterned endpapers. Dust jacket is missing a small chip at the head of the spine and a larger chip at the foot. Front and rear panels vivid and intact. Nicely designed Sun Dial edition of Huxley's novel. . Sun Dial Press Hardcover
1923rif. 35491London: Chatto & Windus 1923. 1st edition. Cloth. Very Good. 1st edition 1923. A Very Good copy lacking dust jacket. 8vo. 328 pp. bound in publishers gold cloth with top edge stained yellow paper title label on spine with a spare in rear of book. Cloth has overall soiling and wear spine & label are faded. End papers toned. Text appears clean and unmarked. "My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns shall with their goat feet dance the antic hay" - Christopher Marlow. Chatto & Windus unknown
1923rif. COLLECTI013835INEW YORK NY: GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY. VG WITHOUT D.J. PUB 1923. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. FIRST PRINTING WITH THE PUBLISHER'S COLOPHON ON THE COPYRIGHT PAGE . PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL BLUE CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH WHITE PAPER TITLE LABEL AFFIXED TO THE SPINE AND TOP EDGE STAINED YELLOW. THE SPINE IS FADED AND THE LABEL IS TANNED BUT TITLE IS STILL LEGEBILE. A VERY NICE COPY WITH SOME MODEST FOXING TO THE PRELIMINARY LEAVES AND A PREVIOUS OWNER'S SIGNATURE DATED 1924 ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. . GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY hardcover
1923rif. 002416New York: George H. Doran Company 1923. An early comic novel of post-WWI disillusionment by Aldous Leonard Huxley 1894-1963. This is a Very Good copy of the First American Edition. Blue cloth binding faded to green on the spine. Clean text; 350 pages. Scattered spotting not extensive; both gutters are cracked but holding. Lacking the scarce dustjacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. George H. Doran Company Hardcover
1923rif. COLLECTI012509ILONDON: CHATTO & WINDUS. NEAR VERY GOOD WITHOUT D.J. PUB 1923. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. WITH ADDITIONAL LABEL TIPPED IN AT TERMINAL LEAF PAGE 328 . PALE YELLOW CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH PAPER SPINE TITLE LABEL AND TOP EDGE STAINED YELLOW. COVERS MODERATELY SOILED WITH TOP FORE-EDGE CORNERS BRUSIED AND PREVIOUS OWNER'S NAME AND 1923 DATE ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. . CHATTO & WINDUS hardcover
1948rif. 291A later novel by the great satirist author of A Brave New World. About fine in blue buckram boards with gold gilt on the spine intact; the p/c gold dw has some minor chipping and is lightly rubbed but is in much nicer condition than normally encountered. Harper & Bros. hardcover
1934rif. 467New York: Harper 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. A tight and clean 2nd printing copy in an edgeworn DJ with a darkened spine with chips at the top and bottom edge. All of the print is present on the DJ spine. The book looks new except that the pages are toning. Harper hardcover
1978rif. 1418245Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1978. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo xxxi 237 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's decorated dark green leather with paneling and gilt lettering to spine. Mild general shelf wear. Edges of text block gilt. Shelved in Easton Press. 1418245. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Easton Press hardcover
1978rif. 90646Easton Press 1978. Collector's Edition. Leather Bound. Fine. Mara McAfee. Small quarto. 10 1/2'; x 7 1/2'. 237pp. Bound in full dark green leather. Gilt lettering and design to covers and spine. Moire endpapers. Ribbon. Octavo 25.5 cm x 18.5 cm 237 pp. Part of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series. There are 4 raised bands on the spine and a gilt fore-edge. Three is a very small stain on the right of the cover and a very minute scratch on the fore-edge gilt. Easton Press unknown
