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1961réf. 510110Tokyo: Gakuseisha 1961. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition stated "Student Society Edition." 12mo. 248 2 pp. Text in English with notes in Japanese and a English-Japanese glossary by Teiji Kitagawa. Illustrated with author photos. Boards trifle sunned at the spine and edges tiny shallow abrasion on the lower board about fine in a rubbed very good dust jacket with a bit of irregular sunning on the cover. An English-language textbook featuring portions of text from T.S. Eliot George Orwell Aldous Huxley Stephen Spender W. Somerset Maugham and others. With an order form and ad titled "Atom Books by Ready Vocabulary Method" laid in. Uncommon. Gakuseisha hardcover books
1949réf. 442464Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1949. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with very modest wear. J.B. Lippincott hardcover books
1944réf. 261037New York: Harper & Brothers 1944. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. First edition. Binding cocked spine rubbed and bumped at ends very good or better in a fair heavily chipped and soiled dustwrapper. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1953réf. 391981New York: Harper & Brothers 1953. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Light stain on a couple of pages modest wear at the spine ends near very good lacking the dustwrapper. With the bookplate of the important rocket scientist and influential science-fiction fan John Drury Clark the bookplate has one corner folded under. In addition to writing an important book on rocket propulsion as well as a couple of stories in "Astounding Stories" Clark was also instrumental in revitalizing and promoting the career of Robert E. Howard. He was college roommates with L. Sprague de Camp who he encouraged to write science fiction stories introduced de Camp to his sometime co-writer Fletcher Pratt and eventually married Pratt's widow Inga. His previous marriage prompted Pratt to form a club of science fiction writers and scientists called The Trap Door Spiders so that they wouldn't have to socialize with Clark's first wife. Isaac Asimov later fictionalized the club as a group of mystery solvers The Black Widowers. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1966réf. 350271London: Chatto & Windus 1966. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Reprint. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with edges yellowed. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1974réf. 280942Los Angeles: Friends U.C.L.A. Library 1974. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Fine in boards. One of 1250 copies. Friends U.C.L.A. Library hardcover books
1965réf. 281522London: Chatto & Windus 1965. Softcover. Fine/Fine. Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers with label affixed from the American publisher Harper and Brothers. Together with his last essay "Shakespeare and Religion. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1987réf. 444796Topsfield: Salem House Publishers 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. A little foxing on the foredge else fine in fine dust jacket. Salem House Publishers hardcover books
1939réf. 396571London: Chatto and Windus 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. A touch cocked with some sunning to the spine and the bottom edge of the front board very good. Distinctive ownership Signature of Elsa Schiaparelli on the title page. Schiaparelli was one of the world’s premiere designers during the 1930s who pioneered numerous now-iconic fashions elements such as the divided skirt trompe-l'oeil detailing synthetic materials and exposed fasteners and as well as incorporated surrealist designed into her work through her collaboration with Jean Cocteau and Salvador Dali. A Burgess 99 title. Chatto and Windus hardcover books
1987réf. 336942Topsfield: Salem House Publishers 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Salem House Publishers hardcover books
1970réf. 106138New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with small tears on the panels. Harper & Row, Publishers hardcover books
1987réf. 106116Topsfield: Salem House Publishers 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine with a light sticker shadow on the front pastedown in fine dustwrapper. Salem House Publishers hardcover books
1939réf. 63946London: Chatto and Windus 1939. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 314pp. Octavo 19.5 cm Brown cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Publisher's brown top stain. With darkened strips to the endpapers and toning to the pages else very fresh. In the dust jacket which is torn in half. The story of a Hollywood millionaire who fears his approaching death. Originally published in the UK this novel was published later the same year in the United States under the title "After Many a Summer Dies the Swan." From the dust jacket- "Central to this extravaganza is the story at once grotesque and painful farcical and reflective of an attempt to prolong the span of human life. But in terms of this rather nightmarish tale of the adventures of a rich man terrified of death the book treats of the ultimate topics of all philosophy- bondage and liberation reality and illusion the problem of good the nature of evil and finally of course causality the great empirical fact that God is not mocked together with that other empirical fact that men are for ever trying to mock God with results that are invariably disastrous. Chatto and Windus hardcover books
1955réf. 285061London: Readers Union 1955. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Later edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with slight rubbing and tear to spine. Readers Union hardcover books
1944réf. 617387New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1944. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Tiny bookseller ticket "Langley Book Shop" on front fly near fine in a very good dust jacket with small chips and tears rubbing and soiling. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover books
1954réf. D20700London: Chatto and Windus 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Cloth in pictorial dustwrapper with wraparound band "Recommended by The Book Society. An excellent association copy INSCRIBED by Elspeth Huxley to American born conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin. Martin settled in Kenya as an adult and spent the balance of his life there courageously fighting on behalf of the elephant and the rhinoceros and the illegal trading of ivory and rhinoceros horns. Chatto and Windus hardcover books
1954réf. D20699London: Chatto and Windus 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth in lightly worn pictorial dustwrapper. A fine association copy INSCRIBED by Elspeth Huxley to American born conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin. Martin settled in Kenya as an adult and spent the balance of his life there courageously fighting on behalf of the elephant and the rhinoceros and the illegal trading of ivory and rhinoceros horns. Chatto and Windus hardcover books
1964réf. D20697London: Chatto and Windus 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Original cloth in attractive pictorial dustwrapper. Illustrated by Jonathan Kingdon. A fine association copy INSCRIBED by Elspeth Huxley to American born conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin. Martin settled in Kenya as an adult and spent the balance of his life there courageously fighting on behalf of the elephant and the rhinoceros and the illegal trading of ivory and rhinoceros horns. Chatto and Windus hardcover books
1957réf. D20702London: Chatto and Windus 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Cloth in dustwrapper. A fine association copy of this novel set in Africa INSCRIBED by Elspeth Huxley to American born conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin. Martin settled in Kenya as an adult and spent the balance of his life there courageously fighting on behalf of the elephant and the rhinoceros and the illegal trading of ivory and rhinoceros horns. Chatto and Windus hardcover books
1963réf. D20710New York: Harper and Row 1963. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Tan cloth spine rubbed. Introduction and Postscript by Julian Huxley. Black and white photographs throughout. Inscribed and signed by the author to Esmond and Chryssee. Esmond and Chryssee are Esmond Bradley Martin and his wife Chryssee. American born conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin and his wife had settled in Kenya where Martin courageously fought for many years on behalf of the elephant and the rhinoceros and the illegal trading of ivory and rhinoceros horns. He was murdered in his home in 2017 a tragic and still unsolved event possibly related to his anti-poaching efforts. Harper and Row hardcover books
1948réf. D20701London: Chatto and Windus 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. pp xviii 366. Photographs throughout. Folding map at rear. Cloth in pictorial dustwrapper missing lower 4cm of spine portion otherwise quite attractive. An uncommon title in the first edition this is an exceptional association copy INSCRIBED by Elspeth Huxley to American born conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin. Martin settled in Kenya as an adult and spent the balance of his life there courageously fighting on behalf of the elephant and the rhinoceros and the illegal trading of ivory and rhinoceros horns. Chatto and Windus hardcover books
1965réf. D20706New York: William Morrow & Co. 1965. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Original cloth in dust jacket. A fine association copy of this novel set in Africa INSCRIBED by Elspeth Huxley to American born conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin. Martin settled in Kenya as an adult and spent the balance of his life there courageously fighting on behalf of the elephant and the rhinoceros and the illegal trading of ivory and rhinoceros horns. William Morrow & Co. hardcover books
1965réf. D20707London: Chatto and Windus 1965. Abridged Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Original blue cloth. 199 pp. Edited and abridged by Ingaret Giffard. This abridged edition is uncommon. A fine association copy INSCRIBED by Elspeth Huxley to American born conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin. Martin settled in Kenya as an adult and spent the balance of his life there courageously fighting on behalf of the elephant and the rhinoceros and the illegal trading of ivory and rhinoceros horns. Chatto and Windus hardcover books
1962réf. D20703London: Chatto and Windus 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Cloth in attractive pictorial dustwrapper by Rosemary Seligman. A fine association copy INSCRIBED by Elspeth Huxley on the half title to American born conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin. Martin settled in Kenya as an adult and spent the balance of his life there courageously fighting on behalf of the elephant and the rhinoceros and the illegal trading of ivory and rhinoceros horns. Huxley's inscription is dated 1975. There is an early gift inscription from a previous owner dated in the year of publication on the front endpaper. Chatto and Windus hardcover books
1984réf. D20695London: Harvill Press 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Original cloth in dust jacket. Photographs throughout. With a gift inscription from Esmond and Chryssee. Esmond and Chryssee are Esmond Bradley Martin and his wife Chryssee. American born conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin and his wife had settled in Kenya where Martin courageously fought for many years on behalf of the elephant and the rhinoceros and the illegal trading of ivory and rhinoceros horns. He was murdered in his home in 2017 a tragic and still unsolved event possibly related to his anti-poaching efforts. Harvill Press hardcover books
