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1944rif. 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
rif. 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
1955rif. 11758London: Chatto & Windus 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on ffep to Oliver Sacks: "To Ol with love Tony." 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. Folding chipping and loss to upper/lower spine on dj staining to cloth evenly toned minimal shelfwear else very tight bright and unmarred. Blue cloth boards. 8vo. 127pp. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
rif. 12170Hardcover/Original Wrapp.ers. Very Good. Hardcover/Original Wrapp.ers. Previously owned by Oliver Sacks. Thomas Henry Huxley 4 May 1825 - 29 June 1895 was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Works include: Eversley Series 6 volumes Macmillian & Co. 1899: Science and Education Essays; Discourses Biological and Geological; Science and Hebrew Tradition 1 with dj 1 lacking; Method and Results; Evolution & Ethics Man's Place in Nature New York 1898. On the Origin of Species Ann Arbor Paperback 1968. Lay Sermons Addresses and Reviews D. App.leton 1883. Discourses Biological and Geological D. App.leton 1897. Shaken and exposed spine. English Men of Letters - Hume New Edition 1887. Shaken and exposed spine. 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. hardcover books
1913rif. 10658New York: Dodd Mead 1913. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No Dustjacket as Issued. First American Edition. Hardcover. Includes photogravure plates folding photographic panoramas several maps 4 folding of various sizes and nearly 300 photographic illustrations many full page. Spence 1058. Minor shelf/edge wear gilt lightly toned discrete paper spine label near heel library bookplate at front pastedown discrete stamp at front pastedown one map shows minor creases at edges and small closed tear near tab else tight bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards gilt lettering frontispieces printed tissue guards foldout maps and images teg. 8vo. 443 376pp. Illus. color and b/w plates. Appendix. Index. Dodd, Mead hardcover books
rif. 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
rif. 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
1923rif. 014905London: Chatto and Windus 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine/Fair/Good. 8vo. 328pp. Sharp True First Edition bound in yellow cloth with titles in red upon a white paper spine label. Square tight and clean throughout save some fairly minor page edge toning. Wear to spine ends and edges. Board edges toning. Mild off-setting to end-papers. Complete unclipped though unpriced dust-jacket 7s.6d. net on spine panel has chipping and heavy toning to spine. Hinges splitting and toned. Not perfect but complete and uncommon in any condition. A solid collectable copy at a great price. Chatto and Windus hardcover books
1932rif. 1156London: Chatto and Windus 1932. First Edition. Deluxe issue number 154 of 324 signed copies. 8vo. Fine in the publisher's yellow cloth morocco label to spine lettered in gilt top edge gilt. The UK edition was split into signed and trade issues published simultaneously on 2 February following publication of the signed issue of the US edition on 21 January and preceding the US trade issue on 4 February. Half morocco box. Connolly 75; Eschelbach and Shober 10. "Brave New World" occupies a singular position within the twentieth-century literary canon as a prophetic dystopian vision that transcends mere speculative fiction through its incisive critique of technological determinism consumer capitalism and the erosion of individual autonomy. Unlike contemporaneous dystopian works that focused primarily on political authoritarianism Huxley's novel pioneered the concept of a "soft tyranny" wherein citizens willingly participate in their own subjugation through engineered pleasure and commodified happiness-a prescient anticipation of late capitalism's emphasis on consumption as identity formation. The novel's enduring relevance stems from its philosophical engagement with fundamental questions regarding the tension between individual liberty and social stability the ethical implications of biotechnology and the psychological price of material prosperity achieved through emotional suppression. Chatto and Windus unknown books
1927rif. 5019First Edition; A Very Good book with mild rubbing and chipping to the spine ends and edges and annotations throughout the text. A handsome copy of this early text on animal biology authored by two of the most important evolutionary biologists of the 20th Century in Haldane and Julian Huxley; a scarce work. Not remaindered not ex-library; will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box. Oxford University Press hardcover books
2009rif. 50278New York: Harper Perennial 2009. Reprint. Paperback. New. 185 pp. Octavo 20.5 cm; Illustrated wraps. From the publisher: "Among the most profound explorations of the effects of mind-expanding drugs ever written here are two complete classic books--The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell--in which Aldous Huxley author of the bestselling Brave New World reveals the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. This new edition also features an additional essay Drugs That Shape Men's Minds' which is now included for the first time. Harper Perennial paperback books
1958rif. S3976New York:: Harcourt Brace 1958. 1958. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 210 x 142 mm. Small 8vo. 156 pp. 6 tables bibliog. index. Orange cloth dust-jacket; jacket rubbed else fine. Harcourt, Brace, (1958). hardcover books
1960rif. S6112New York:: Horizon Press 1960. 1960. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 8vo. xxi 330 pp. Frontis. port. 12 plates 3 figs. selected bibliog. of Huxley's writings index. Cloth dust-jacket; jacket edges taped to cloth. Ex library copy. Good. Horizon Press, (1960). hardcover books
1976rif. 628695New York: Harper & Row 1976. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Small octavo. 191pp. Fine in about near fine dust jacket with some creasing to the top of the front panel and sunning at the corner and spine. Harper & Row hardcover books
1955rif. 339000London: The Reprint Society 1955. hardcover. fine/near fine. Numerous photographic Illustrations. Short 12mo black boards red spine label graphic pictorial d.w. some sunning to spine. London: The Reprint Society 1955. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. The Reprint Society unknown books
1963rif. 627880New York: Harper & Row 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Octavo. 118pp. Offsetting and foxing to the pastedowns and light spotting to the topedge very good or better in very good jacket with interior and some exterior foxing along with edgewear. A book on incorporating science ideas and into fiction writing. Harper & Row hardcover books
1926rif. 2349686London: Chatto & Windus 1926. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Lacks jacket. Spine faded. 1926 Hard Cover. 291 5 pp. 8vo. A travelogue by the author of Brave New World with a list of his books following the text. "The author recounts his experiences traveling through six countries and offers his observations on their people cultures and customs." Chapters include: India and Burma; Malaya; The Pacific; America. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1988rif. 59948New York: Viking. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1988. Advance Review Copy; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 067082318x . A Fine first Printing of the First Edition Advance Review Copy in a Fine dust-jacket with a publisher's insert tipped in; George Orwell once said "In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act." In this book Huxley takes on the British government revealing the dark secrets of their power and corruption. With wit and intelligence she takes readers on a journey through the halls of power uncovering the machinations of the government and the people who keep them in check.Murder at Government House is a scathing critique of the British government exposing the secrets of their power and corruption. With wit and intelligence Huxley takes readers on a journey through the halls of power uncovering the machinations of the government and the people who keep them in check.; 8vo; 231 pages . Viking hardcover books
1988rif. 56717New York: Viking. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1988. 1/4 Cloth. 067082318x . A Fine edition in a dust-jacket of equal condition ; Huxley's gripping novel tells the story of the murder of the English Governor of Trinidad at the hands of his own people. With a riveting plot and well-developed characters Murder at Government House is a must-read for mystery and suspense fans.; 8vo; 231 pages; Price . Viking hardcover books
1988rif. 57942New York: Viking. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1988. Advance Review Copy; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 067082318x . A Fine first Printing of the First Edition Advance Review Copy in a dust-jacket of equal value. A publisher's insert is laid in; Set in 1884 this mystery novel tells the story of a governess Elspeth who is accused of murdering her employer the Lady Margery. Elspeth must use all her cunning to outwit her enemies and clear her name before she is sent to an asylum.; 8vo; 231 pages . Viking hardcover books
1988rif. 58293New York: Viking. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1988. Reprint Edition. 1/4 Cloth. 067082318x . A Reprint Edition in Fine condition in a like dust-jacket ; This book is about a governess who is murdered at the home of the British ambassador. The police are unable to solve the case and the ambassador is forced to resign.; 8vo; 231 pages . Viking hardcover books
1936rif. 14942London: The Peace Pledge Union. Fine. ca. 1936. Pamphlet. An attractive Peace Pledge Union publication undated however published in 1936 and following the earlier and more common Chatto and Windus and Harper & Brothers edition. Yellow stapled wrappers in beautiful Fine condition staples slightly rusty but firm. Not listed in Eschelbach/Shober; Author and Brave New World novelist Aldous Huxley pacifist and member of The Peace Pledge Union states his case and counters 12 typical pro-war arguments making an attempt "to provide who feel that war is an abomination all who will that it shall cease with an intellectual justification for their attitude" from the introduction ; 8vo; 36 pages . The Peace Pledge Union unknown books
1974rif. 1390285Avon CT: Limited Editions Club// The Cardavon Press 1974. First Edition First Printing Limited Edition #1050/2000. Hardcover. Octavo xxvi 237 1 pages. In Very Good condition. Contained in a Very Good condition red-orange slipcase with dark blue lettering along the spine and mild wear along the head edge. Navy blue spine with light blue lettering. Boards have mild shelving wear. Textblock has mild wear along the rear end-page a blue ink stain on the front hinge and mild wear along the edges. Signed by Mara McAfee on the publisher's limitation page limited edition #1050/2000. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1390285. Special Collections - Downstairs. Limited Editions Club// The Cardavon Press hardcover books
1888rif. M6966New York:: D. Appleton 1888. 1888. 203 x 132 mm. 8vo. 596 ads 4 pp. 158 figs. index. Blind- and black-stamped brick red cloth gilt spine; spine ends frayed. Very good. D. Appleton, 1888. hardcover books
1932rif. 4838First Edition/First Printing with no additional printings mentioned; A Near Fine book in a Good dust jacket. A handsome copy of this important work in evolutionary biology from Sir Julian Huxley the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley a leading early proponent of Darwinism and important biologist. Julian Huxley became a leading evolutionary biologist during the early to mid 20th century; this text is an important work an account of the study of allometry or the relative growth of body parts to the growth of the whole; this work still a basis for the study of analytical morphology. This copy is in near fine condition with light rubbing to the board edges mild age-toning to the text block and a previous owner's signature to the front free paper the owner Grant D. Darker was a prominent biologist in his own right from Harvard and the University of Toronto. Housed in a good original dust jacket with chipping and tearing to all edges with a small loss of material and the front flap detached. A scarce title in the first printing particularly retaining the original dust jacket. Not remaindered not price-clipped not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box. The Dial Press hardcover books