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réf. 1291London, Chatto & Windus, 1942 in-8, 278 pp., illustrations, toile grise de l'éditeur. (reliure légèrement fanée)
réf. 2339Paris, Germer Baillière, 1880 - in-8: xii, 260 pp., 32 pp.: front., 82 fig. in-texte - cart. édit. toile brune, décor doré (charnière sup. déchirée sur une dizaine de cm).
réf. 4645Grover Smith New York, 1969, Harper& Row, in 12, rel.couv.edit., 996 pp.
réf. 2749P., Doin, 1884, un volume in 8 relié en demi-basane marron, dos orné de fers dorés (reliure de l'époque), (rousseurs), 13pp., 387pp., demi-basane marron, dos orné de fers dorés, (rousseurs)
réf. 2745P., Baillière, 1880, un volume in 8 relié en pleine toile éditeur, (rousseurs), 1 frontispice, 11pp., 260pp., 82 figures dans le texte
réf. 2747P., Reinwald, 1869, in 8 relié en pleine toile éditeur, (2), 4pp., 348pp., figures dans le texte
1966réf. 010704Boston: Beacon Press 1966. Book. Very Good. Printed Wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Beacon Paperback Edition. Association Copy. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by author on half-title page "for Willis and Helli with my best - Phil". Condition: Very Good. Octavo. Wrappers and edges foxed as well as some foxing at endpages. Willis Barnstone and Philip Appleman had overlapping tenures in the English department at Indiana University Bloomington. While Appleman is better known as a poet his The Silent Explosion predates Paul and Anne Ehrlich's The Population Bomb 1968 making it the first modern book on overpopulation. . Beacon Press Paperback books
1898réf. 16843New York: D. Appleton and Company 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Authorized Edition. Very Good. Blue cloth label on the front board remnant of label near the foot of the spine. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge clean internally. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1898réf. 16844New York: D. Appleton and Company 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Authorized Edition. Very Good. Blue cloth remnant of label on the front board and near the foot of the spine. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge public library stamp inside each board clean otherwise. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1898réf. 16845New York: D. Appleton and Company 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Authorized Edition. Very Good. Blue cloth remnant of label on the front board and near the foot of the spine. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge clean internally. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1902réf. 16842New York: D. Appleton and Company 1902. Hardcover. Very Good. Authorized Edition. Very Good. Red cloth on the boards bumped at the corners. Square and firmly bound former owner's name inside the rear board clean otherwise. Volume VII in the Collected Essays series. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1955réf. 43750London: The Reprint Society 1955. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 12mo 18.3 cm pp. 320. Black cloth with gilt titling on red spine label. Red publisher's topstain. Light purple and black illustrated jacket. Several plates of black and white photography five maps and index. Accounts of the author's explorations in Gambia Sierra Leone The Gold Coast and Nigeria. Rubbing and bumping to boards Jacket spine is sun-faded with moderate edge wear and closed tears. The Reprint Society hardcover books
1943réf. 88805London: Horizon 1943-1949. First Edition. 51 issues with nos. 93&94 and 120&121 released as double-issues all softcovers. 51 Octavos 21cm; pictorial paper wrappers; black-and-white and colorful photographic halftones and illustrations throughout. Full pagination available upon request. From the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Edward Michael Mendelson pseud. Nathaniel Tarn with his ownership to title pages of nos.61-67 and his occasional pencilled notes to interior and occasional inked and pencilled notes to rear wrapers. All issues lightly tanned with modest shelf-wear and -soil and tiny tears to edges; overall Very Good. U.K. liteary magazine published from 1939 to 1950. Fifty-one issues include contributions by Raymond Mortimer Edmund Wilson Edward Sackville West Robert Penn Warren Ian Fleming and Christopher Isherwood. 88805. Horizon unknown books
1934réf. 84717New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1934. First American Edition. Octavo 21.5cm; black cloth-covered boards with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt and navy blue on spine and front cover; fore-edge untrimmed; map illustrated endpapers; dustjacket; 295pp; with 30 pages of black-and-white illustrations. Decorative stamp and previous owner's name pencilled to front endpaper. Rubbing to titling with shelf-soil to covers and interior and crack to front hinge; Good. Dustwrapper price-clipped tanned with shelf-soil and chips and tears to spine ends and extremities; Good. The author's account of traveling through Guatemala and southern Mexico in 1933. 84717. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
1938réf. 63527New York: Spanish Child Welfare Association 1938. First Trade Edition. Octavo 23cm; printed sheets rectos spiral bound into red and blue pictorial card wrappers; 34-711pp with 60 captioned illustrations. Light wear to cover extremities with a few of the faint inevitable stress creases to same and a small bump to crown; contents fresh; Near Fine. The first exhibition of children's drawings of the Spanish Civil War was held in 1937 in Valencia; it was organized by the Ministry of Education and included over 3000 drawings. Subsequently 118 of those drawings were selected for showing in England and the United States to raise funds for children's relief efforts in Spain. Of these the sixty best were selected for publication in the exhibition catalog for which Aldous Huxley agreed to write the introduction; the catalog went through three printings in 1938-1939 ref. Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives online. A well-preserved copy of a notoriously wear-prone title. BROMER B54.1. 63527. Spanish Child Welfare Association unknown books
1964réf. 49921New York: William Morrow & Company 1964. First printing. Very good plus in very good plus jacket. First US edition of Huxley's satirical suspense novel set in the fictional British East African Protectorate of Hapana. 8'' x 5.5''. Original quarter blue cloth with yellow boards. In original unclipped $3.95 dust jacket. Light edgewear and minor soil to boards scattered foxing to fore-edge. Faint toning to jacket edges small chip to front panel with tape repair to verso. Bright. William Morrow & Company unknown books
1929réf. 82422London: The Fleuron Ltd 1929. First Limited Edition. One of 300 numbered copies this being copy no.222. Quarto 25.75cm; tan cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and decorations stamped in gilt on front cover; top edge gilt; publisher's patterned paper-covered slipcase; viii642pp; with color illustrations by Albert Rutherston. Gentle sunning to spine with a very shallow indentation to upper rear board edge resulting in a mild ripple to text at upper margin; some offsetting to endpapers a handful of faint foxed spots to half-title else clean throughout; about Near Fine. Slipcase is shelfworn a bit sunned with some partial splits and general tenderness along the joints; still sound but only Good to Very Good. The first and only printing of this collection of five essays. BROMER A20. 82422. The Fleuron Ltd unknown books
1962réf. 50075London: Chatto & Windus 1962. Fine in near fine jacket. First edition of Huxley's second memoir of her early life in Kenya under British rule a continuation of her previous THE FLAME OF THIKA. 8.5'' X 5.5''. Original rose cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped 21s dust jacket designed by Rosemary Grimble. 335 1 pages. Light foxing to endpapers and dust jacket; minor scuffing to jacket edges. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1957réf. 42370Munchen: R. Piper & Co 1957. Reprint. Near fine in a very good jacket. POINT COUNTER POINT in a charming German edition. Vol. Band 33 in the Die Bucher der Neunzehn series; first published by R. Piper & Co. Verlag in 1951. A handsome copy. 8'' x 4.5''. Blue cloth with orange stamped titles in original printed dust jacket. 509 1 pages. Some edgewear to jacket small chips and tears to spine at head and tail light sunning to spine. Interior bright and clean throughout. Binding tight. R. Piper & Co unknown books
1931réf. 379902Garden City: Doubleday Doran and Company 1931. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Owner's name else fine in very good or better spine tanned dustwrapper with small chips at the spine ends. Doubleday, Doran and Company hardcover books
1896réf. 48606New York: D. Appleton and Company 1896. Very Good. New York: D. Appleton and Company 1896. Authorized Edition Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 272. Octavo 21.5cm; contemporary half crimson goat over marbled paper-covered boards gilt spine in six compartments top edge gilt marbled endpapers; ix1451pp.; author portrait frontispiece. Very light rubbing to margins leather a bit darkened and spine crown slightly pulled else a Very Good internally clean and sound example. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
1928réf. 215811London: Chatto & Windus 1928. First British edition and first printing. Hardcover. 601 pages. One of the better novels from the author of "The Doors of Perception" and "Brave New World." A very good copy in cloth boards with some some wear and in a fair only dust jacket that has some soiling numerous chips tears and wear. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1934réf. 2353949Norwalk Connecticut: The Heritage Press 1934. Reissue. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 10x7x2. Kent Rockwell. Reissue. Includes publisher’s slipcase and Sandglass insert. Spine faded. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1934 Hard Cover. xxi 3 228 1 pp. A satirical utopian novel which has been compared to Gulliver's Travels. This edition modeled after the 1934 Limited Editions Club reissue of the 1901 revised edition includes a special introduction by Aldous Huxley and woodcut illustrations by Rockwell Kent as well as prefaces to the first second and revised editions - in one of these Butler addresses public perception that Erewhon's success was owed to the contemporary publication of The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton another utopian novel. Both were originally published anonymously and it was widely and erroneously assumed that Butler's work was a sequel to Bulwer-Lytton's. Butler explains in the preface that his novel was completed before the other was printed and that the two bear no relation to one another. The Heritage Press hardcover books
réf. UHUXBRA03drpEast. Fine. Huxley Aldous. Brave New World. Norwalk Connecticut: East ND. 8vo. Book condition: Near fine. In shrink wrap. East unknown books
1963réf. 217247New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1963. First U.S. edition and first printing. Hardcover. 118 pages. A later non-fiction work from the author of "The Doors of Perception" and "Brave New World" and numerous other books. A near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine with some minor wear and a previous owner's initials to the front free endpaper and in a very good dust jacket with some light wear and soiling. Harper & Row, Publishers unknown books