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1939réf. 151687London: Chatto & Windus 1939. First edition of this classic novel. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery marbled endpapers all edges gilt frontispiece illustrated. Founded over a century ago in 1900 the Harcourt Bindery is the oldest and largest traditional bindery in America exclusively devoted to fine traditional leather bookbinding by hand. Harcourt Bindery uses 22 karat genuine gold leaf top grades of Nigerian moroccos and hand marbled papers from craftsmen representing seven countries. In fine condition. After Many a Summer tells the story of a Hollywood millionaire who fears his impending death. It was published in the United States as After Many a Summer Dies the Swan. Written soon after Huxley left England and settled in California the novel is Huxley's examination of American culture particularly what he saw as its narcissism superficiality and obsession with youth. This satire also raises philosophical and social issues some of which would later take the forefront in Huxley's final novel Island. The novel's title is taken from Tennyson's poem Tithonus about a figure in Greek mythology to whom Aurora gave eternal life but not eternal youth. The book was awarded the 1939 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Chatto & Windus hardcover
réf. 123099London Chatto & Windus 1932. . First edition; 8vo 18.5 x 13 cm; slight age toning to text block as usual occasional small spot or mark throughout otherwise very good internal condition; modern full aquamarine morocco one-line gilt-panelled back by Bayntun Riviere gilt dentelles cockerel endpapers all edges gilt mild age-toning fading to spine otherwise a handsome finely-bound first edition; viii 306pp 4pp. A very good first edition example of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World in a modern fine-binding by Bayntun Riviere. This groundbreaking and chilling dystopian classic is set in the futuristic World State whose citizens are engineered into a social caste system based on their intelligence. The social hierarchy is challenged by the novel's protagonist and sleep-learning specialist Bernard Max as he fights against the psychological conditioning of the State. The novel has consistently been ranked among the Top 100 books of the 20th Century. London, Chatto & Windus, 1932. unknown
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1864réf. A58710London: Williams and Norgate 1864. 8 159 wood-engraved frontis 32 text figs. . HB. 8vo orig. dark green cloth blind-stamped decorative border to both boards minor wear some soiling gilt title to spine slightly dulled. text block cracked between two gatherings but still firm. Good. Third thousand. First published 1863. Includes the frontispiece illustrating the progression of skeletons from the lesser apes through to humans. Huxley showed that in the visible characters man differs less from thehigher apes than do the latter from lower members of the same order of primates. Huxley who earned the nickname 'Darwin's Bulldog' for his outspoken defense of the theory of evolution through natural selection wrote this present work in response to the well-known Hippocampus minor controversy of the 1860s. Huxley challenged the paleontologist Richard Owen who asserted that a human's brain differed qualitatively from those of other mammals. After a series of dissections of primate brains Huxley disproved Owen's claim that only humans possessed a Hippocampus minor a portion of the brain now known as the calcar avis.Garrison & Morton 165. Williams and Norgate hardcover
1982réf. mon0000574611London: 1982-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. Some marking due to age on pages but overall book remains in good condition considering age. With Dust Cover. London: hardcover
1963réf. 149296Boston: Little Brown and Company 1963. First edition of this 1963 scientific progress conference anthology. Octavo original publisher's cloth with eight illustrations. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ira Goldblatt. Uncommon in this condition. Man and His Future is an anthology derived from a 1963 London symposium sponsored by the Ciba Foundation that brought together sixteen internationally recognized biologists to discuss the long-term prospects of human evolution and scientific progress. Among its most significant contributions is J. B. S. Haldane’s essay “Biological Possibilities for the Human Species in the Next Ten Thousand Years” which contains what is widely regarded as the first scientific reference to the concept of human cloning—marking the initial use of the terms “clone” and “cloning” outside of agricultural contexts. The collection also features a contribution by Julian Huxley whose evolutionary humanism and familial connection to Brave New World underscore the intersection of science and speculative ethics. Little, Brown and Company hardcover
1920réf. 016460London. Paris: X. M. Boulestin by the Chelsea Book Club 1920. Number 34 of 50 copies on Japon from an edition of 620 this copy with the scarce errata slip.127pp with 9 plates. Bound in original white buckram with gilt lettering top gilt edge other rough. Cloth lightly dustdirt marked. Binding in very goood condition. Internally pages clean. A very nice copy. F. Limited Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. X. M. Boulestin by the Chelsea Book Club Hardcover
1931réf. 146113New York: The Fountain Press 1931. Signed limited first edition of this collection of essays. Octavo original publisher's half cloth over marbled boards. One of eight hundred and forty-two copies signed by Aldous Huxley on the rear free endpaper this is number 608. In fine condition. Housed in the original slipcase. Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer philosopher and notable pacifist widely known for his recording of psychedelic experience 'The Doors of Perception' and his dystopian narrative 'Brave New World.' 'Music at Night' covers a variety of topics such as morality in arts behavioral similarities of humans and cats and universal education. The Fountain Press hardcover
réf. ANAIS-070111312XHarper & Row. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Harper & Row hardcover
1978réf. 46307Norwalk Ct. : Easton Press. Fine No dust jacket as issued. Leather Bound. Leather Bound. Bound in dark green leather with gilt titles and ornaments. Gilt edges. Silk bookmark. Moire endpapers. McAfee Mara illustrator. Includes both Huxley's forword and a new introduction by Ashley Montagu.; 237 pages . 1978. Easton Press hardcover
1859réf. 524001859. In Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society vol. 4 1859: 1-28. Whole issue. 224 x 144 mm. Original printed wrappers. VG. unknown
réf. ANAIS-0713704438Blandford Press. hardcover. Good. 1.8x09x2.1. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Blandford Press hardcover
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réf. 121714London Williams and Norgate 1863. . First edition first issue; 8vo; engraved frontispiece and illustrations within the text 8-page publisher's catalogue dated February 1863 at rear; occasional light spots and marks to the contents but generally clean; original green morocco-grained cloth titles to spine gilt borders to boards blocked in blind red coated endpapers printed with publisher's catalogue some marks dampstain and loss of size affecting the cloth corners and ends of spine a little bumped and worn small knock to the edge of the upper board very good condition; 159pp. First edition of the first book to apply Darwinian evolution to human beings First edition of the first book to apply Darwinian evolution to human beings preceding Darwin's own account in The Descent of Man. The first issue point identified by Hook and Norman the frontispiece printed on A2v forming an integral part of the preliminaries and a likely issue point the catalogue dated February 1863. 'Huxley earned the nickname "Darwin's bulldog" for his outspoken defence of the theory of evolution through natural selection particularly as it pertained to man. The present work grew out of the famous Hippocampus minor controversy of the early 1860s in which Huxley publicly challenged the taxonomist Richard Owen's claim that man's brain differed qualitatively from those of all other mammals. Through a series of dissections of primate brains Huxley disproved Owen's assertions that only man's brain possessed a Hippocampus minor and demonstrated that the differences between men and apes were smaller than those between apes and the lower primates' Hook and Norman The Norman Library of Science and Medicine 1132. 'Written to be accessible Man's Place in Nature was ignored by the highbrows and abominated by the religious press but acquired a cachet among the middle-class public no less than among National Reformer secularists and Russian and German socialists' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Freeman British Natural History Books 1855; Hook & Norman The Norman Library of Science & Medicine 1132. London, Williams and Norgate, 1863. hardcover
1938réf. 031975UK 1938. First Edition . Paper. Very Good. 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall. Two Original Handwritten and Signed Zoological Society Letters by Sir Julian Huxley to Philip Morrell regarding and discussing the Death of His Wife and Friend Lady Ottoline Morrell. Dated 1938. Sir Julian Huxley 1887 - 1975 was an English 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 the president of the British Eugenics Society 1959-1962 and the first president of the British Humanist Association. Size is 200mm x 160mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Ref19334 unknown
réf. 121934London Chatto & Windus 1923. . First edition first impression; 8vo; light offsetting to endpapers else unmarked internally; publisher's olive green cloth white title label to spine printed in green extra label tipped in at rear olive green topstain with the original dustjacket priced '6s. net' on spine spine panel slightly darkened but a lovely copy nonetheless. Early collection of essays in the distinctive Chatto & Windus dustjacket. London, Chatto & Windus, 1923. hardcover
1929réf. 9070New York: The Fountain Press 1929. First Edition First Printing. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.5 in. 35 pp. Near fine in original paper-covered boards with gilt design to spine edges some pages remain uncut. Slight off-setting to foot of front panel faint rubbing to edges as well as one spot of rubbing away to foot of rear fore-corner. Still a sharp copy with bright gilt. Signed by Huxley on the half-title page from a limited edition of 692 copies of which 300 were distributed for American trade this is number 111. The Fountain Press unknown
réf. 122248London Chatto & Windus 1927. . First trade edition first impression; 8vo; scattered light foxing; publisher's green cloth titles to spine gilt green topstain with the unclipped dustjacket; very good indeed. Essays on the likes of 'The Idea of Equality' 'Varieties of Inteligence' and 'Education' among others. London, Chatto & Windus, 1927. hardcover
réf. 117564London Chatto & Windus 1934. . First UK edition; 8vo 23 x 15 cm; 30 photographic illustrations maps on endpapers internally fine; publisher's orange cloth spine lettered in gilt original dust-jacket with a touch of rubbing a couple of chips to spine head and foot and lower bottom panel corner still a very good copy; viii 319 pp. Aldous Huxley's classic travel account of his journey from Trinidad to the Mayan ruins in Honduras and Guatemala. London, Chatto & Windus, 1934. hardcover
1929réf. 149534London: Privately printed by The Curwen Press for H.R.H. The Prince of Wales 1929. First and limited deluxe edition of the monumental Legion Book; one of only one hundred numbered copies printed for private distribution by the Prince of Wales and signed by a remarkable array of British writers and artists as well as four prime ministers. Quarto original publisher's full deluxe pigskin over boards elaborately decorated in blind and gilt top edge gilt tissue-guarded color frontispiece engraved title-page vignette illustrated with 16 captioned tissued-guarded plates in various techniques some signed by the artist and 32 collotypes. One of one hundred numbered copies printed for private distribution by the Prince of Wales and with five pages signed by each of the 89 contributing writers and illustrators as well as four prime ministers three British Prime Ministers: David Lloyd George Stanley Baldwin and Ramsay MacDonald and French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau including: Winston Churchill who was not yet a Prime Minister Rudyard Kipling P.G. Wodehouse Eric Gill Stanley Spencer Charles Ricketts W. Heath Robinson Laura Knight William Nicholson Paul Nash David Low Rebecca West John Lavery Max Beerbohm Vita Sackville-West Hilaire Belloc Mark Gertler Edith Sitwell Jacob Epstein W.H. Davies and Aldous Huxley among others. This is number 84. The Legion Book was created at the request of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales—who would later become King Edward VIII and following his abdication the Duke of Windsor—as a fundraising initiative for the British Legion. All profits from its sales were intended to support the organization. The book features contributions from 85 distinguished British writers and artists including Winston Churchill Rudyard Kipling P.G. Wodehouse Aldous Huxley Vita Sackville-West G.K. Chesterton Hilaire Belloc Augustus John Eric Kennington and John Nash. It was compiled and edited by James Humphrey Cotton Minchin 1894–1966 a veteran who served with the Cameronians and the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. While the trade version saw several reprints a special edition of 600 numbered copies was also produced. Of these 500 bore the editor’s signature but “the first 100 were reserved for H.R.H. the Prince of Wales sponsor of the volume in his gift.” According to the note at the conclusion of the Table of Contents “Five pages of contributors’ signatures appear after the Dedication with additional signed pages opposite Collotype No. 3 and Collotype No. 20.” Every contributor signed the book with the sole exception of John Singer Sargent who died in 1925 before the project was completed. In near fine condition with toning to the extremities of the front panel and front hinge. Housed in the original publisher's custom folding cloth clamshell box. An exceptional example of this rare signed limited edition. Formed in the aftermath of a war that had shattered a generation the Royal British Legion emerged in May 1921 as a unified voice for the countless veterans left wounded—physically mentally and economically—by the First World War. The staggering cost of the conflict with nearly 3.2 million British Empire casualties exposed the inadequacy of postwar support. A fully disabled veteran received just 30 shillings a week and any claim had to be made within seven years of discharge. In response to such injustice several ex-servicemen’s groups came together to create the Legion not merely as a charity but as an advocate for those who had borne the brunt of industrialized warfare. From its inception the Legion fought for fair pensions better employment opportunities and meaningful support for both former service members and their families—laying the groundwork for a broader movement of remembrance welfare and national responsibility that continues to this day. Privately printed by The Curwen Press for H.R.H. The Prince of Wales hardcover
1948réf. 76889New York. 1948. 8vo. Originalbind med smussomslag. 205 s. Harper & Brothers Publishers. Engelsk. Smussomslaget med små slitasjer ellers et meget pent eksemplar. unknown
1936réf. 150147London: Chatto & Windus 1936. First edition of Huxley's classic work which many consider one of his finest. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Written at the height of his powers immediately after Brave New World Aldous Huxley's highly acclaimed Eyeless in Gaza is his most personal novel. Huxley's bold nontraditional narrative tells the loosely autobiographical story of Anthony Beavis a cynical libertine Oxford graduate who comes of age in the vacuum left by World War I. Unfulfilled by his life loves and adventures Anthony is persuaded by a charismatic friend to become a Marxist and take up arms with Mexican revolutionaries. But when their disastrous embrace of violence nearly kills them Anthony is left shattered—and is forced to find an alternative to the moral disillusionment of the modern world. Journalist Simon Heffer has called the novel Huxley’s best book and single ‘great novel’. For Heffer the book both harkens back to Huxley’s early satires and links to the more serious and philosophical concerns of his later novels. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1931réf. 150293London: Cassell and Company Limited 1931. First edition of "the first modern textbook of biology." Quarto original cloth illustrated. From the library of James D. Watson with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. James D. Watson was a molecular biologist geneticist and biophysicist best known for co-discovering the structure of DNA in 1953 alongside Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin. Their groundbreaking work on the double helix model of DNA laid the foundation for modern genetics and revolutionized the biological sciences. Watson’s contribution to science particularly in the field of molecular biology earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 shared with Crick and Maurice Wilkins. Beyond his scientific achievements Watson also played a key role in advancing genetic research through his leadership at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. His work and subsequent publications including The Double Helix 1968 which provides a personal account of the discovery have sparked significant ethical debates in the scientific community particularly regarding his controversial views on genetics and intelligence. In very good condition. The Science of Life is a book written by H. G. Wells Julian Huxley and G. P. Wells gives a popular account of all major aspects of biology as known in the 1920s. It has been called "the first modern textbook of biology" and "the best popular introduction to the biological sciences". Wells's most recent biographer notes that The Science of Life "is not quite as dated as one might suppose". In undertaking The Science of Life H. G. Wells who had published The Outline of History a decade earlier selling over two million copies desired the same sort of treatment for biology. He thought of his readership as "the intelligent lower middle classes . not idiots half-wits . greenhorns religious fanatics . smart women or men who know all that there is to be known". Julian Huxley the grandson of T. H. Huxley under whom Wells had studied biology and his son "Gip" a zoologist divided the initial writing between them; H. G. Wells revised dealt with the help of his literary agent A. P. Watt with publishers and acted as a strict taskmaster often obliging his collaborators to sit down and work together and keeping them on a tight schedule. H. G. Wells had begun the book during his wife's final illness and is said to have used work on the book as a way to keep his mind off his loss. The text as published is presented as the common work of a "triplex author". H. G. Wells took 40% of the royalties; the remainder was split between Huxley and Wells's son. In his will H. G. Wells left his rights in the book to G. P. Wells. Cassell and Company Limited hardcover
1932réf. 149102London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo bound in full leather by Exeter Bookbinders in a unique binding of a blue suit jacket and three titanium skull-shaped buttons to the front panel gilt titles to the spine "Bernard Marx" in gilt on the front panel. In near fine condition. Ownership inscription to the copyright page "Yes!!!! 1st edition." Exeter Bookbinders bookplate to the rear pastedown. "A nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science… easily Huxley's most popular and many good judges continue to think his best novel" DNB. "After the success of his first three novels Huxley abandoned the fictional milieu of literary London and directed his satire toward an imagined future. He admitted that the original idea of Brave New World was to challenge H.G. Wells' Utopian vision… The novel also marks Huxley's increasing disenchantment with the world which was to result in his leaving England for California in 1937 in search of a more spiritual life. The book was immediately successful" Parker & Kermode 161-62. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century. Chatto & Windus hardcover
