HUXLEY, ElspethABAA
Nine Faces of Kenya
1991réf. 104443No Place: Viking 1991. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Sticker shadow on the front panel else fine in wrappers. Viking unknown books
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1962réf. D20696New York: William Morrow & Company 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. William Morrow & Company hardcover books
1961réf. D20705London: Chatto and Windus 1961. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Cloth in attractive 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
1948réf. D20708Nairobi: Highway Press. Longman Green and Co. 1948. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Original brown wrappers. 126 pp. Ownership signature dated in Nairobi in the year of publication on front wrap. Highway Press. Longman Green and Co. paperback books
1963réf. D20704London: Chatto and Windus 1963. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth in dustwrapper. Review slip laid in. 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. He was murdered in his home in 2017 a tragic and still unsolved event quite possibly related to his anti-poaching efforts. Chatto and Windus hardcover books
1941réf. D20698London: Penns in the Rocks Press by William Collins of London 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Original decorated cloth. With twelve plates in color and seventeen illustrations in black and white. Some light foxing but a nice copy with a superb association: 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. Penns in the Rocks Press by William Collins of London hardcover books
1991réf. 104443No Place: Viking 1991. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Sticker shadow on the front panel else fine in wrappers. Viking unknown books
1948réf. 409865New York: Mentor Books 1948. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Wrappers. 191pp. Slight soiling edgewear and lifting lamination thus very good with a previous owner name on the first page. Mentor Books unknown books
1924réf. 256584London: John Murray 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. 390pp. Gilt-stamped red cloth. Bookstore label on front pastedown edges lightly worn a very good copy. John Murray hardcover books
1932réf. 167153London: William Heinemann LTD 1932. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Very good or better in good plus dustwrapper. Chips and rubs on dustwrapper edges spine and corners Ink name on front free endpaper rubs on cloth edges corners and spine sticker on front free endpaper. William Heinemann LTD hardcover books
1937réf. 167256London: Chatto & Windus 1937. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. About very good in wrappers. Paperback. Covers faded/ minor sticker shadow/. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1967réf. 191308New York: William Morrow & Company 1967. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated with black and white plates. Very good with a slight offsetting from a piece of tape to the half title page spotting to the boards and bumped corners. William Morrow & Company hardcover books
1953réf. 250211New York: Harper & Brothers 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Later printing. Owner's name on front fly else very good in a very good dust jacket with panels scuffed light stain on spine tail. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1942réf. 76035New York: New Republic 1942. Softcover. Very Good. First American edition. Very good in stapled wrappers with pencil markings on the front wrap. New Republic unknown books
1978réf. 33764New York: Paddington Press 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First American edition. Edges of the boards slightly faded else near fine in fine price-clipped dustjacket. Paddington Press hardcover books
1930réf. 12895London: C&W 1930. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Edges of the boards a trifle soiled still about fine in very good plus dustwrapper with a bit of darkening to the spine and extremities and some light chipping at the crown. A nice copy of a fragile little volume. C&W hardcover books
1957réf. 1406428London: Chatto and Windus Limited 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 397 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine orange and light blue with blue and off-white lettering. Exterior has very slight wear including light edge wear. Boards have slight wear including mild sunning and few frays to the head spine edge. Text block has slight wear including slight age toning to the fore/tail edges with head edge colored dark blue. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Column X. 1406428. FP New Rockville Stock. Chatto and Windus Limited hardcover books
1956réf. 1406380London: Chatto and Windus Limited 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 285 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine green and maroon with beige and blue lettering. Exterior has moderate wear including modest age toning faint soiling and few minor chips to the head/tail edges. Age toning to the interior. Boards have slight wear including light sunning bumped spine edges and slightly cocked spine. Text block has slight plus wear including mild age toning to the fore/tail edges with head edge colored blue. Slight offsetting to the end papers. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Column X. 1406380. FP New Rockville Stock. Chatto and Windus Limited hardcover books
1955réf. 1406390London: Chatto and Windus Limited 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 127 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine light orange with dark brown lettering. Exterior has moderate wear including slight scuffing slight reddish staining to the rear and minor edge wear. Boards have slight wear including slight sunning and light edge wear. Mild cocking to the spine. Text block has slight wear including mild age toning to the edges and faint offsetting to the end papers. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Column X. 1406390. FP New Rockville Stock. Chatto and Windus Limited hardcover books
réf. B01536-14New York Crown 1943. 16 250pp. 268 plates. Lrg. 4to. Cloth. New York (Crown), 1943. hardcover books
1845réf. 4106London: n.p. 1845. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Unbound in a protective wrapper. First and only edition of this very scarce article by Huxley in which he identifies "Huxley's layer" and "membrane" of the root sheath of hair follicles. G&M 412. [n.p.] unknown books
réf. 1492A collection of original offprints in the fields of genetics heredity and evolution. From the library of Alfred Henry Sturtevant 1891-1970 renowned American geneticist. All items unless stated bear Sturtevant's signature and/or stamp and many are presentation copies. Included are works by Bateson Boveri Calvin Bridges Julian Huxley Jacques Loeb Raymond Pearl Reginald Punnett and Edmund Wilson. unknown books
1953réf. 1838New York: Harper & Brothers 1953. First edition. SIGNED BY HUXLEY AN ANALYSIS OF EVOLUTION BASED ON LECTURES AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY IN 1950.-51. 13 x 20 cm hardcover blue paper-covered boards blue cloth spine ink signature of author on title page i-x 182 pp 9 photographic illustrations. SIR JULIAN HUXLEY 1887 – 1975 was a British evolutionary biologist eugenicist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century Modern Synthesis. He was secretary of the Zoological Society of London 1935–1942 the first Director of UNESCO a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund and the first President of the British Humanist Association. Huxley was well known for his presentation of science in books and articles and on radio and television. He directed an Oscar-winning wildlife film. He was awarded UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for the popularisation of science in 1953 the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1956 and the Darwin–Wallace Medal of the Linnaean Society in 1958. He was also knighted in that same year 1958 a hundred years after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace announced the theory of evolution by natural selection. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1935réf. 107271Hamburg:: The Albatross. Very Good. 1935. Paperback. Number 269 in The Albatross Modern Continental Library series. First edition thus mass market paperback. Light shelf wear and aging else very good in green printed wraps. No dust jacket. . The Albatross, paperback books
1926réf. 1403660London: Chatto and Windus Limited 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 271 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine dark beige with green lettering. Exterior has moderate wear including heavy age toning and few minor chips to the head/tail edges. Heavy age toning to the interior. Boards have mild wear including slight sunning and cocking to the spine with light edge wear. Text block has moderate wear including age toning to the fore/tail edges with head edge colored black. Offsetting to the end papers. Heavy offsetting to verso to page two hundred seventy one. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column U ND-U. 1403660. FP New Rockville Stock. Chatto and Windus Limited hardcover books
réf. 581718New York: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller no date. Softcover. Near Fine. Bookseller catalog. Oblong narrow octavo. 65 1 pp. Small pen notation on front cover near spine else near fine. Features books and manuscripts from the collections of Richard H. Levey of Detroit and C.E. Menor of Chicago among others. Glenn Horowitz, Bookseller unknown books
