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1945ref. 563300Los Angeles: Vendanta Society of Southern California 1945. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 34-64pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Covers with some toning and slightly bumped corners very good. The official magazine of the Vedanta Society of Southern California that attracted the attention of many notable intellectuals of the day including Aldous Huxley W. Somerset Maugham Gerald Heard Alan Watts Arnold Toynbee and Christopher Isherwood who served at different times as managing editor and a member of the editorial advisory board. Contributions to this issue include: "That art Thou II" by Huxley "A Letter" by John van Druten and "Religion and Other-Worldliness" by Swami Prabhavananda. OCLC locates no copies for this year. (Vendanta Society of Southern California) unknown
1931ref. 563485Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company 1931. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First American edition. Gilt spine titles. A bit sunned at the foot of the spine else near fine in good dust jacket with chipping and internal repairs mostly along the flap folds. Very scarce in jacket. Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover
1930ref. 540417London: Chatto & Windus 1930. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Faint scattered foxing throughout with faint foxing on foredge light crease on the spine very good in a very good dust jacket with a toned spine tiny nicks and a short tear. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1927ref. 540414London: Chatto & Windus 1927. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. xix 299pp. Green cloth with gilt spine. Foredge trifle foxed with slight foxing on some pages light bumping at the foot of the spine near fine in a very good or better dust jacket with tiny chips and tears and a modestly toned spine. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1963ref. 539437New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1963. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Introduction by Aldous Huxley. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with the spine lettering a bit toned. Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover
1956ref. 544355New York: Crown Publishers 1956. Hardcover. Very Good. Fourth impression. Octavo. 310pp. illustrated with color plates from photographs. Publisher's blue cloth boards gilt spine. The spine and top edge of front cover is sunned slight damage on the back cover fore-edge a two-inch tear else very good or better a nice and tight copy. Inscribed by Huxley in ink on his business card taped onto the front free endpaper to William Eastlake a noted novelist of the American Southwest and his wife Martha Simpson. A nice association. Crown Publishers hardcover
1937ref. 538663London: Chatto & Windus 1937. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 355pp. Red cloth with spine gilt. Just about fine in a soiled very good dust jacket with a tiny chip and a couple of short tears and a moderately toned spine. Essays on war religion nationalism and ethics. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1926ref. 498873London: Chatto and Windus 1926. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 272pp. Faint stain on rear cover and fore-edge of text block thus a very good copy in very good spine-toned and overall age-toned dust jacket. Chatto and Windus hardcover
1930ref. 498877London: Chatto & Windus 1930. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Light foxing on preliminary pages else a fine copy in near fine dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1930ref. 502743London: Chatto & Windus 1930. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition trade issue Escelbach 65. Octavo. 59pp. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Faint dust soiling on top-edge else a fine copy in near fine price-clipped dust jacket with spine tanned shallow chipping at crown and a small price sticker affixed to rear flap. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1859ref. 519550London: London Stereoscopic Comp'y/ London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company 1859. Unbound. Fine. Albumen print cabinet card measuring 4" x 5.75" on slightly larger printed cardstock mount. The oval vignette image depicts Huxley in three-quarter profile wearing a suit and bow-tie. Printed beneath the image: "Professor Huxley." Photographer's imprint on recto and verso. Image has a few tiny spots from the negative else the photograph and mount are in fine condition. Huxley was an important English scientist and an early advocate of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. London Stereoscopic Comp'y/ (London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company) unknown
1968ref. 503888Berkeley California: The Hart Press 1968. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Victor Anderson. Sewn printed wrappers. Front cover with faint uneven sunning near fine. Issued as a Christmas greeting with publisher's slip laid in. The Hart Press unknown
1961ref. 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
ref. 1258661454.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1953ref. 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
1966ref. 350271London: Chatto & Windus 1966. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Reprint. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with edges yellowed. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1965ref. 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
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