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réf. 41781New York: George H. Doran Company. Good with no dust jacket. N.D. Cloth. Text clean book lightly age worn front board beginning; Light green boards with dark green spine pasted on title label on spine is missing right edge does not interfere with title; 8vo; 292 pages . George H. Doran Company hardcover books
1954réf. 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
1940réf. 6055Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin 1940. Limited Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Alvin Lustig. 8vo. Pp. 28. Lustig decorations in red on the title and p. 7. Light gray laid paper-covered boards Lustig illustration printed in red and dark gray on the front board titles in dark gray on the spine: boards and leaves a tad age-toned. In the Lustig illustrated dust jacket printed red and dark gray on light gray laid paper: Spine sunned age-toned short closed tears at the spine head and top edge. Please see photos. Signed by Huxley beneath the colophon. One of "100 copies specially printed for Jake Zeitlin May 1940" at the Ward Ritchie Press. Addressed to educators an essay on the moral discipline of language use. Lustig's design evoking facets or folds was created with letterpress decorations. In Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig authors Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger cite the "stark juxtaposition of the author's signature isolated for greater effect and an abstract configuration of shapes referring to the inherent complexities found in systems of writing and their organizational syntax." Referenced on pp. 36 and 40 in Born Modern The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig by Heller and Cohen-Lustig. Dust jacket preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve. . Jake Zeitlin hardcover books
2013réf. 234479Everyman's Library 2013-01-01. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5x0x8. Dust jacket and book are in very good condition. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Everyman's Library hardcover books
1949réf. 60151London: Chatto and Windus 1949. First edition 8vo pp. ix 1; 244 2; portrait frontispiece; blue publisher's cloth gilt; fine in very good dust jacket with closed tear at top of spine and slight abrasion to upper panel. Chatto and Windus unknown books
1937réf. 58195New York and London: Harper & Brothers 1937. First American edition 16mo pp. 2 104 2; original green paper wrappers; wrappers soiled underlining and marginal notes in pencil throughout otherwise very good and sound. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1927réf. 56835Leipzig: Biologischen Zentralblatt 1927. 8vo pp. 151-163 1 i.e. 14 pages; self-wrappers 5 text illustrations; shallow tears on fore-edge else fine. OCLC locates only the USC copy of this offprint. Biologischen Zentralblatt unknown books
1925réf. 56785Cambridge: Reprinted from the Journal of Anatomy 1925. 8vo pp. 379-384; original printed wrappers. Reprinted from the Journal of Anatomy vol. LIX Part IV July 1925. Reprinted from the Journal of Anatomy unknown books
1920réf. 56787London: Reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 1920. 8vo pp. 413-417 1 3 leaves; original wrappers with printed label. Reprinted from The Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science Vol. 64 Part 3 March 1920. Reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science unknown books
1921réf. 56593London: Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 1921. 8vo pp. 293-322 6 two plates 18 leaves; original green printed wrappers. Reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science Vol. 65 Part II March 1921. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science unknown books
1922réf. 56999Oxford: reprinted from the Biological Bulletin 1922. 8vo pp. 209-239 i.e. 32 pages; orignal plain wrappers; staple-bound; some gatherings unopened; inscription at the top of the front wrapper of Dr. E. J. Lund whose name appears in the bibliography. Reprinted from the Biological Bulletin vol. xliii no. 3 September 1922. reprinted from the Biological Bulletin unknown books
1925réf. 56594Edinburgh: Printed by Oliver and Boyd 1925. 8vo pp. 9-34 2 1 photographic plate; original green printed wrappers; illuatrations throughout. Reprinted from the British Journal of Experimental Biology Vol. III October 1925. Printed by Oliver and Boyd unknown books
1924réf. 56588England: Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 1924. 8vo pp. 471-479 1 2 1 photographic plate 6 leaves; original green printed wrappers; illustrated throughout. Reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science Vol. 68 Part III October 1924. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science unknown books
1924réf. 56595Edinburgh: Printed by Oliver and Boyd 1924. 8vo pp. 215-248 17 leaves; original green printed wrappers. Reprinted from the British Journal of Experimental Biology Vol. 1 January 1924. Printed by Oliver and Boyd unknown books
1921réf. 56706London: Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 1921. 8vo pp. 643-697 1 6 3 illustrative plates; original blue printed wrappers. Reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science Vol. 65 Part IV October 1921. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science unknown books
1923réf. 56553England: Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 1923. 8vo pp. 473-495. 1 2 1 photographic plate; original printed green wrappers; illustrations throughout; spine scuffed otherwise very good. Reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science Vol. 67 Part III October 1923. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science unknown books
1932réf. 55816London and New York: William Heinemann Ltd. and the Viking Press 1932. Special edition limited to 525 copies this copy #456; 8vo pp. 2 xxxiv 2 889 3; printed on onionskin paper and bound in Japanese vellum title printed in black on spine vignette on upper cover; vellum split on spine very good. William Heinemann, Ltd. and the Viking Press unknown books
1932réf. 52371Minneapolis: The Attic House 1932. 14 x 11 cm pp. 16; self-wrappers colophon states edition size was "about 90" fine. Rulon-Miller Wulling 17. The Attic House unknown books
1893réf. 25026New York: D. Appleton 1893. 8vo pp. xi 1 378 6; library pocket on rear pastedown small accession numbers on spine; all else bright and near fine in orig. terracotta cloth stamped in gilt and black. D. Appleton unknown books
1901réf. 9898New York: D. Appleton & Co 1901. First American edition 2 vols. 8vo pp. xii 539-540; viii 541-542; 12 plates 7 photogravures 1 illus. in the text. A good sound set in original brown cloth t.e.g. D. Appleton & Co unknown books
1926réf. 13822London: Chatto & Windus 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear sunning to spine else tight bright and unmarred. Color with marbled boards gilt spine title. 8vo. viii 257pp. Signed by author on limitation pg. This is copy 623 of 650. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
2006réf. 69843New York: HarperCollins 2006. Reprint. Paperback. New. 259pp. Octavo 20.5cm. Illustrated wraps. From the publisher: "Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred socially indoctrinated and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order-all at the cost of our freedom full humanity and perhaps also our souls. "A genius who who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine" The New Yorker Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist a spiritual seeker and one of history's keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World his masterpiece has enthralled and terrified millions of readers and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as a thought-provoking satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s Brave New World likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment technology medicine and pharmaceuticals the arts of persuasion and the hidden influence of elites. HarperCollins paperback books
1932réf. 12442London: William Heinemann Ltd 1932. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. Original Wraps. Previously owned by Oliver Sacks. A lengthy selection of Lawrence's correspondence edited and with an introduction by Aldous Huxley. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Moderate shelf wear toning at textblock edge cracking at lower spine outer and verso and through gutter else intact upper split and bumped corners else tight bright and unmarred. Lacking dj. Brown cloth with titling and decorative elements. 8vo. xxxvi 889 3pp. with portrait frontispiece and 17 plates of illus b/w color. William Heinemann Ltd unknown books
1944réf. 11783London: Chatto & Windus 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on ffep : "Dr. S. Sacks.28/7/44." From Oliver's father Sam. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Minimal shelfwear moderate sunning to front/back boards bumping else tight bright and unmarred. Blue cloth boards. Lacking dj. 8vo. xii 195pp. Illus. b/w. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
réf. 12106Original Wraps. Very Good in Wraps. Original Wraps. Previously owned by Oliver Sacks. Works include: Brave New World; Beyond the Mexique Bay: A Traveller's Journal; The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell Vintage Classics; and The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell Harper Colophon. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Minimal shelfwear chipp.ing toning dampstaining else tight bright and unmarred. illus b/w. unknown books
