Huxley, AldousABAA
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1932réf. 140949470London: Chatto and Windus 1932. Limited First Edition. Near Fine. First edition limited issue. Copy #203 of 324 copies signed by Aldous Huxley on the limitation page at front. viii 306 1 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth with blue morocco title label to spine top edge gilt. Near Fine with light soiling to cloth and rubbing to corners offsetting to endsheets. A beautiful copy of the author's best-known work. Chatto and Windus unknown books
1928réf. 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
1959réf. 140948457London: Chatto & Windus 1959. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. 288 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Near Fine with small faint stain at tail light foxing to textblock edges. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with sunned spine panel and light foxing. Also in the rare Book Society Choice belly band sunned on the spine. A beautiful copy of Elspeth Huxley's memoir of growing up in Kenya as the child of white settlers struggling to adjust to their new environment. The book was adapted into an ITV miniseries starring Hayley Mills and Ben Cross in 1981. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1937réf. 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
1944réf. 140947235New York: Harper and Brothers 1944. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition first printing. Signed and dated 1960 by Aldous Huxley on the front free endpaper. vi 311 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt ruling and lettering to spine titles blocked in dark blue. Near Fine with slight lean to spine light soiling to endpapers. In Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear and modest rubbing and soiling to rear panel. Housed in a custom clamshell case half morocco over marbled paper. First edition of Aldous Huxley's bildungsroman about a spoiled and materialistic young man finding his way to enlightenment. Signed copies of the first edition are scarce. Harper and Brothers unknown books
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. 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. 140946918London: 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 significant lean to binding and light fading to spine foxing to text block edges and slight perfume odor. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning to spine light edge wear and foxing. A striking copy of the 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. 140946254New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1932. First American Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First American trade edition after the printing of 250 de luxe copies first printing. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth stamped in gilt with red topstain. Very Good with slight lean to binding rubbing to gilt lettering at spine bumped top right corner; light offsetting to endsheets. Front free endpaper top corner clipped; musty odor to contents. In a Very Good slightly tattered unclipped dust jacket with moderate toning light toning and patchy loss of color to spine and panels foxing. Interior tear to top of front panel near spine and other trivial tears to edges. 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. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc unknown books
1936réf. 140944596London: Chatto and Windus 1936. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition limited issue. Copy #111 of a limited 200 copies signed by the Aldous Huxley. Bound in publisher's original patterned paper-covered boards over brown spine cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light edge wear uneven toning to rear cover faint waviness to pages and slight bleeding and offsetting to author's signature. A lovely copy. Chatto and Windus unknown books
1958réf. 140943639New York: Harper & Brothers 1958. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition first printing. Signed by Aldous Huxley on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original grey-blue boards over black spine cloth stamped in blue and gilt. Near Fine with boards slightly sunned through dust jacket and former owner bookplate to front free endpaper. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear light soiling and light toning. A non-fiction work written nearly thirty years after the publication of Brave New World in which Huxley ponders whether the world had moved toward or away from his vision of the future from the 1930s. Harper & Brothers unknown books
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. 140941273New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1932. First American Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth stamped in gilt with red topstain. Near Fine with light sunning to spine and edges pages toned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket edge-worn and with several masking tape reinforcements to the verso. 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. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc unknown books
1938réf. 625571New York: Robert M. McBride & Co 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. No edition stated presumed first American edition. 341pp. Bookplate removed leaving glue residue on front fly foxing on page edges and cloth small stains on topedges about very good lacking the dust jacket. Robert M. McBride & Co hardcover books
1860réf. 1908London: Zoological Society of London 1860-1872. First editions. 44 OFFPRINTS COLLECTED BY PROMINENT BRITISH NATURALIST AUTHORED AND INSCRIBED BY COLLEAGUES IN THE DECADE FOLLOWING DARWIN'S ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 14x21.5 cm 3/4 leather & burgundy cloth bound collection of offprints from Proc Zool Soc London 1860-1872 presumably collected by JB Pettigrew to whom a number of the papers is inscribed by the authors. The papers vary in length from 2 pages to substantial monographs total size in the region of 400 pp. with 10 colored plates and several full page engraved plates as well as numerous text ills. Most concern mammalian or avian anatomy. Of the 44 29 are by James Murie 2 jointly with Mivart 6 by Mivart alone 3 by Cobbold and 4 by Flower and one each by Kirk and Huxley. Flower sided with Darwin against Richard Owen over the nature of the human brain and one of the papers here is on the anatomy including brain of the South American saki monkey Pithecia monachus. Cobbold was a leading authority on helminthology on which a 22 pp. paper is included here along with one on the anatomy of the giraffe. Murie himself is best known for work on the Thames fisheries and some African adventures but was for some time assistant in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. He appears to have been a friend of Pettigrew 13 of his papers being inscribed to him sometimes as 'my friend' or similar. Pettigrew was an eminent Scottish naturalist and museum curator who became a leading authority on animal locomotion and flight even designing an ornithopter on which he published several works as well as an anti-Darwinian 3 volume book on 'Design in Nature' completed 1908. This volume is in excellent condition being internally clean and tight with only occasional brown spotting though there is some cloth fading and surface marking to leather on gilt panelled spine. The spine label has gone but impression remains reading 'Papers by Doctors Murie Mivart Flower Cobbold &c'. It was apparently one of a series of similar volumes being numbered 'III' in one of the panels. An early hand-written list of the paper titles is laid in but missing 2 papers by Murie. THOMAS SPENCER COBBOLD 1828 - 1886 was an English scientist. After graduating in medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1851 he was appointed lecturer on botany at St Mary's Hospital London in 1857 and also on zoology and comparative anatomy at Middlesex Hospital in 1861. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1864. His special subject was helminthology particularly the worms parasitic in man and animals and as a physician he gained a considerable reputation in the diagnosis of cases depending on the presence of such organisms. WILLIAM HENRY FLOWER 1831 - 1899 was an English comparative anatomist and surgeon. Flower became a leading authority on mammals and especially on the primate brain. He supported Thomas Henry Huxley in an important controversy with Richard Owen about the human brain and eventually succeeded Owen as Director of the Natural History Museum. Flower succeeded John Thomas Quekett as Conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on the recommendation of Huxley and others. Flower became associated with Huxley's controversy with Richard Owen concerning the human brain. Owen had erroneously said that the human brain had structures that were not present in other mammals and separated man off into a Sub-Class of its own instead of a genus in the primates. At the 1862 meeting in Cambridge when Owen read a paper maintaining his claims Flower stood up and said "I happen to have in my pocket a monkey's brain" - and produced the object in question! report in the Times. In 1882 he was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society. He was President of the Zoological Society of London from 1879 to 1899. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 1825 – 1895 was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialised in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. He became the finest comparative anatomist of the later 19th century. He worked on invertebrates clarifying relationships between groups previously little understood. Later he worked on vertebrates especially on the relationship between apes and humans. JOHN KIRK 1832 - 1922 was a Scottish physician naturalist companion to explorer David Livingstone and British administrator in Zanzibar. He earned his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh. He was a keen botanist throughout his life and was highly regarded by successive directors of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: William Hooker Joseph Dalton Hooker and William Thistleton-Dyer. ST. GEORGE JACKSON MIVART 1827 - 1900 was an English biologist initially an ardent believer in natural selection but later becoming one of its fiercest critics. Mivart attempted to reconcile Darwin's theory of evolution with the beliefs of the Catholic Church and finished by being condemned by both parties. Fellow of the Linnean Society from 1862 Secretary from 1874-80 and Vice-President in 1892. In 1867 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his work "On the Appendicular skeleton of the Primates". Mivart was someone Darwin took seriously. One of his criticisms to which Darwin responded in later editions of the Origin of Species was a perceived failure of natural selection to explain the incipient stages of useful structures. Taking the eye as an example Darwin was able to show many stages of light sensitivity and eye development in the animal kingdom as proof of the utility of less than perfect sight argument by intermediate stages. JAMES MURIE 1832-1925 earned his MD from the University of Glasgow and specializing in zoology he first worked at the Royal Infirmary Glasgow proceeding to the Royal College of Surgeons in London as assistant in the Museum where under Prof. J. E. Queckett he was a comparative anatomist specializing in aquatic mammals. PROVENANCE: JAMES BELL PETTIGREW 1834 - 1908 was a distinguished naturalist in Edinburgh and London and at St Andrews University from 1875 until his death. Pettigrew was an internationally acknowledged authority on animal locomotion. In 1862 Pettigrew accepted the post of Assistant Curator at the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London which he held for five years. In 1867 he retired to Ireland to study the flight of birds and bats. In 1868 at the age of 36 Pettigrew was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1873 Pettigrew published Animal Locomotion: or Walking Swimming and Flying his most popular work. COMPLETE LIST OF PAPERS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Zoological Society of London hardcover books
1968réf. 1911London: Jonathan Cape 1968. First edition thus. HUXLEY'S GROUNDBREAKING STUDY OF EVOLVED RITUALIZED BEHAVIOR IN SEXUAL SELECTION. 10.5x18.5 cm hardcover black cloth binding gilt title to spine 97 pp 2 2 plates. Near fine in near fine dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve. LAID IN: Retrospective review of the book in Nature 25 Sept 2014 pages 484-5. " JULIAN HUXLEY 1887–1975 was an architect of the mid-twentieth-century evolutionary synthesis that merged Darwin's ideas on natural selection with population genetics. Decades before that however he helped to pioneer the field of animal behavior with his groundbreaking work on avian ethology the 1914 Courtship Habits of the Great Crested Grebe. In it he demonstrated how detailed observations of individual birds can prompt profound biological questions and sometimes reveal the outline of the answers. Huxley and his brother Trevenen spent two weeks watching the courtship of great crested grebes Podiceps cristatus. They did so at a reservoir near the Hertfordshire town of Tring now renowned as home to the matchless bird collections of the Natural History Museum. The result was a paper published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London in 1914 and later in slightly abbreviated form as a pocket-sized book. By the month of the brothers' observations the grebes had already paired. Nevertheless male and female whose plumages are virtually identical engaged in striking behaviors such as the "cat attitude" and the "penguin dance" as Huxley colorfully labelled them. These he interpreted as necessary to bring the two birds into what he perceived as the emotional synchrony needed for coition nest-building and egg-laying. To achieve this some behaviors have undergone a gradual change from useful action to symbol to ritual. It was Huxley's landmark paper that identified this process of ritualization in animal behavior he organized a Royal Society symposium to discuss it in 1965. Huxley also realized that ritualization extended to mammals including people. With a sprinkling of references to Dante Plato and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet he digresses to muse on how human courtship so often and so predictably proceeds from hand-holding to kissing to more. More formally he realized that behaviors may be shaped by evolution." Jonathan Cape hardcover books
1941réf. 1278London: Chatto & Windus 1941. First edition. SIR JULIAN HUXLEY'S THOUGHTS ON THE RESPONSE OF DEMOCRACIES TO THE THREATS OF WAR IN THIS CASE BRITAIN AND WWII--SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Slim hardcover 7 1/2 inches tall blue cloth binding inscribed front free endpaper "Mary Welsh/ from Julian Huxley/ Aug 1941" 126 pp. Light browning to cover edges very good in custom archival mylar cover. CONTENTS: I. THE UNIFYING EFFECT OF WAR; II. THE .BRITISH BRAND OF DEMOCRACY; III. THE BRITISH SOCIAL SERVICES; IV. SOCIAL SERVICE AND DEMOCRACY; V. SOCIAL STANDARDS; VI. HEALTH IN A DEMOCRATIC BRITAIN; VII. THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF EDUCATION; VIII. PLANNING AND DEMOCRACY; THE DEVELOPMENT OF BACKWARD AREAS; X. DEMOCRACY BETWEEN NATIONS; XI DISINTEGRATION AND REINTEGRATION; XII. THE NEW DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY. FROM THE FOREWORD: "Dr. Huxley marshals before us the very considerable contributions to the progress of civilization which democracy has recently made and is now making in this country. The array is both formidable and inspiring The instances given spread over the whole field of human endeavour and are of a kind and extent to go far towards correcting our national tendency to self-depreciation." SIR JULIAN HUXLEY 1887 – 1975 was a British evolutionary biologist eugenicist and internationalist. He was the first Director of UNESCO a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund and the first President of the British Humanist Association. In 1941 the year Democracy Marches was published Huxley was invited to the United States on a lecturing tour and generated some controversy by saying that he thought the United States should join World War II: a few weeks later came the attack on Pearl Harbor. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
2009réf. 583728New York: Harper Perennial 2009. Softcover. Near Fine. Reprint. Introduction by David King Dunaway. Trade paperback. Modest rubbing and edgewear near fine. Harper Perennial unknown books
1932réf. 337130London: Chatto & Windus 1932. hardcover. fine. 306 pages. Short 8vo handsomely rebound in full aqua crushed morocco ornately gilt spine. London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First Edition. Fine. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1938réf. AA1460Los Angeles:: Jake Zeitlin 1938. 1938. Small 4to. 7 pp. White printed wrappers. Fine. Limited edition of 500 copies printed by The Ward Ritchie Press. (Jake Zeitlin, 1938). unknown books
1948réf. 15883APE AND ESSENCE Harpers 1948 first edition just about fine in vg/near fine dust-wrapper Harpers unknown books
1963réf. 13092HOW TO TALK DIRTY AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE Playboy / HMH Publishing 1963 & 1964 first edition 6 volumes complete vg to near fine copies. Also contains original contributions by Jack Finney Charles Beaumont Fredric Brown Aldous Huxley Ray Bradbury Lawrence Durrell Robert Bloch Ben Hecht Philip Roth Shel Silverstein Ian Fleming THE PROPERTY OF A LADY James Baldust-wrapper in P. G. Wodehouse BIFFEN'S MILLIONS Ernest Hemingway Arthur C. Clarke et.al. Postage guaranteed to be more than any amount noted. Playboy / HMH Publishing unknown books
1929réf. 00139Golden Book for MAY 1929 Review of Reviews Corp. 1929 first edition small chip missing from lower fore edge corner tip leaf consisting of advertising on pages 9/10 torn and separated but present else vg in full color pictorial wraps executed by George M. Richards with just about fine contents. Contains contributions by Michael Arlen Aldous Huxley Mark Twain Owen Wister Edith Wharton Charles Dickens et.al. Illustrated. Golden Book / Review of Reviews paperback books
1916réf. 04988FIRST BOOK THE BURNING WHEEL Blackwell 1916 first edition some light dust-soil to the covers else a vg copy in wraps as issued. The authors scarce first book. Blackwell paperback books
