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1914réf. 335195London: Smith Elder & Co 1914. hardcover. very good. PONTING Herbert G. 2 volumes. Photogravure frontispieces nearly 300 varied and detailed illustrations and maps 18 of the former being color plates. Tall thick 8vo navy cloth with gilt lettering top edges gilt uncut edges. Bookworm damage to paste-downs and first few and last few pages of both volumes. Rubbing to edges of covers bumping to forecorners. Tiny spots of soiling to covers and spines. Ownership signatures to paste-downs of both volumes. London: Smith Elder & Co. 1914. Overall a solid copy about very good. Smith, Elder & Co unknown books
1936réf. 007185Chatto & Windus 1936. Book. Fine. Cloth. First English Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy.True First Edition.Near fine Jacket.Faded At Spine.Terrific Copy. Chatto & Windus Hardcover books
1923réf. 007186Chatto & Windus 1923. Book. Fine. Cloth. First English Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine Fresh copy in a good jacket. True First Edition.Spine Faded Split and loss to Crown & Heel.Nice Copy. Chatto & Windus Hardcover books
1930réf. 006408Chatto and Windus 1930. Book. Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in like jacket.Fresh Copy. Rare in this condition. "First Published 1930 2sNet. on flap. Excellent Copy. Chatto and Windus Hardcover books
1931réf. 1409501Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1931. Limited Edition #598/750. Hardcover. Octavos 4 Volumes. In Very Good condition. Bound in quarter blue cloth and blue paper boards bearing tan labels with black lettering to spines. Sunning and light soiling to spines. Labels slightly chipped. Scuffing to boards. General edges wear. Heavy rubbing to corners of boards. Top edge of textblocks gilt moderately scratched. Light soiling to fore and bottom edges of textblocks. Foxing to color plates and adjacent half title and title pages. Age toning with light smudging throughout interiors. Signed by Wells Huxley and Wells and enumerated on limitation page in front of Volume I. Shelved in Case 10. "The Science of Life" is often considered the "first modern textbook of biology." It was originally released in 31 serialized issues from 1929-1930 in the UK before being published in a three volume edition. Author H.G. Wells 1866-1946 is best known for his groundbreaking science-fiction novels including "The Invisible Man" and "The War of the Worlds." Julian Huxley 1887-1975 was an evolutionary biologist and eugenicist. G. P. Wells 1901-1985 H.G. Wells' son was an author and zoologist. Source: Wikipedia. 1409501. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc hardcover books
1939réf. 620098New York: Harper and Brothers 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Bumping at bottom corners near fine in a very good dust jacket with tiny nicks and tears creases and rubbing. A Burgess 99 title. Harper and Brothers hardcover books
1887réf. D20099New York: Appleton 1887. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 85 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. 85 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Rust colored wrappers paper label on upper cover Appleton paperback books
1937réf. 1408634New York: Harper & Brothers 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo 307 pages. In Good minus condition with a Fair dust jacket. Spine is green gold white with white print. Dust jacket has edgewear with short tears at spine ends and flap corners small stains and ink notation on rear panel toning to spine peripheral toning. Price unclipped: “$2.75”. Boards in blue cloth gold print; wear to spine caps and corners blemishes on rear panel. Text block has name in ink on front flyleaf. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column Z. 1408634. FP New Rockville Stock. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1859réf. 20244London: Printed for the Ray Society 1859. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. Folio pp. viii-x 143 blank ff 24 blank; dull green library linen boards with gilt lettering on spine; boards lightly soiled and rubbed; call numbers stamped to heel of spine; library bookplate to pastedown with "Discard" stamp; four-inch tear to fore-edge of half-title leaf; embossed library stamp and pencil annotations to title leaf; embossed library stamp to p. 1; library tickets and pockets to rear endpapers; cellotape repair to top edge of last plate; else a sound ex-library copy. Illustrated with twelve uncolored lithograph plates and accompanying letterpress descriptive text. Cloth. While serving as ship's surgeon aboard the H.M.S. Rattlesnake Huxley 1825-1895 collected and studied specimens of hydrozoas in the waters off Australia New Guinea and Palermo Italy. Through careful dissections and close observation of physical relationships Huxley succeeded in bringing more detailed order to the knowledge of these minute organisms. Printed for the Ray Society unknown books
1943réf. 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 books
1987réf. 322949New York: Viking 1987. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Illustrated. x 262 pages 8vo cloth-backed boards d.w. New York: Viking 1987. First American edition. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. Viking unknown books
1966réf. 286075London: Max Parrish 1966. hardcover. very good/very good-. Over 50 photos by author some in color a few maps. 8vo blue cloth d.w. dampstained. London: Max Parrish 1966. Max Parrish unknown books
1976réf. 256146New York: Harper 1976. First. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Illustrated in black and white. 191 pages slim 8vo brown cloth dust wrapper very good. New York: Harper & Row 1976. A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. Musings on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and on Lewis Carroll. Harper unknown books
1964réf. 225093New York: Harper 1964. First. hardcover. very good/very good-. 148 illus. 48 in full color. 4to two-toned cloth d.w. chipped. New York: Harper & Row 1964. Study of the Amahuaca Indians of Peru. Harper unknown books
1878réf. 216274New York: Appleton 1878. hardcover. very good. Illustrated. 8vo 3/4 tan calf marbled boards marbled edges ornately gilt spine with red and green leather labels. New York: Appleton 1878. Very good . A textbook which is a little masterpiece of its kind. Huxley never accepted without qualification the Darwinian principle. He thought "transmutation may take place without transition" and thereby anticipated the findings of modern research. He liberated the English anatomical school from the deductive method and sounded the keynote of the social medicine of the future. - Garrison-Morton 338; Casey Wood p. 396. Appleton unknown books
réf. 158936hardcover. Illus. 8vo cloth. N.Y.: Viking 1957. vg unknown books
1949réf. 27714New York: Henry Schuman 1949. hardcover. very good. Frontis. Thin 8vo cloth d.w.; dust wrapper worn. New York: Henry Schuman 1949. Very good. Henry Schuman unknown books
réf. 78014hardcover. Illus. 296pp. 8vo cloth. N.Y. 1970. unknown books
réf. 97356paperback. 174pp. 8vo pr. wrs. Ann Arbor Michigan 1978. unknown books
réf. 123550London. hardcover. Illustrated in color and black and white. 48pp. Slim 4to. London n.d. unknown books
1994réf. 580675Chicago: Ivan R. Dee 1994. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof of the First American edition. Yellow wrappers. Edited by David Bradshaw. Fine. Ivan R. Dee unknown books
1926réf. 536665New York: George H. Doran Company 1926. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Early American reprint. Maroon cloth and printed paper label. Near fine in modestly worn very good or better dust jacket with rubbing and shallow chipping at the spine ends. George H. Doran Company hardcover books
1930réf. 138025Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran 1930. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Green cloth. Boards spotted spine darkened and frayed good only. A collection of short stories from the author of Brave New World. Doubleday, Doran hardcover books
1956réf. 60231London: Chatto & Windus 1956. First edition. 8vo pp. 88. Red cloth. Top portion of front blnak clipped off; edges spotted cover rubbed at corners and ends of spine o/w a VG tight copy in some chipped and worn dj. A companion copy to The Doors of Perception experices with mescalin. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1987réf. 57186NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1987. First illustrated edition. Pelizzoli Francesca. Small 4to pp. 288. Illustrated in color by Francesca Pelizzoli; also with photographs. Black paper over boards. Light stain on front edges of leaves o/w a nice copy in slilghtly scuffed and soiled dj with decorations and an applied illustration. Weidenfeld & Nicolson unknown books
