Huxley, Thomas HABAA
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1898Best.-Nr. 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
1902Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 172515N.p.: N.p. 1971. Substantial archive of material relating to the 1971 film including 125 original photographs two SIGNED by actress Georgina Hale eight original color slides 18 French front-of-house cards a press kit a program a promotional book and two magazines with articles about the film. The 125 photographs in the archive include 63 studio still photographs 61 reference photographs two in color and one wardrobe test photograph including two photographs one black and white and one color signed by actress Georgina Hale. Eight of the photographs are on-the-set photographs featuring director Ken Russell and stars Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed. 16 of the studio still photographs are borderless with caption margins along the bottom and eight of the reference photographs are borderless one with cropping annotations on the verso and one with a German mimeo snipe on the verso. One on-the-set reference photograph struck circa 1980 one with yellow wax pencil cropping annotations on the recto and six with ink annotations of collation numbers in the bottom margins. The archive also includes: Eight original color slides from the film. Eighteen color French front-of-house cards. An original 24 page "The Devils" promotional book with an embossed "The Devils" white book jacket with the heading on the first page "Background Information about 'The Devils' and Some Events in History Leading to the Incident at Loudon." A one page two-color program printed on the verso and recto. A press kit in a "The Devils / Warner Bros. Travelcade of Summer Films / April 1971" folder with an embossed gold "The Devils" sticker on the front housing two two-page press releases "The Featured Players - From King to Exorcist ." and "Black Lips Beauty Spots and 'Mortal Sin' Tints." The July 9 1971 issue of "The Daily Telegraph Magazine" featuring a cover article "Ken Russell: The Return of the Old-Style Movie Director." The April 1978 issue of the Spanish film magazine "Dirigido Por." featuring a cover article on the film. Based on the 1960 play by John Whiting and on Aldous Huxley's 1952 book "The Devils of Loudun." A dramatization of the fall of Urbain Grandier a Catholic priest accused of witchcraft and demonic conspiracy by a group of hysterical nuns. Often regarded as one of the more controversial films of the twentieth century due in large part to its heavily violent and sexual content in a religious context widely censored before its release. Photographs: 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall two photographs with small chips to the top right corner one with a tiny bruise to the upper left. Slides: 2 x 2 inches. Near Fine. 18 color French front-of-house cards: 8.75 x 11 inches. Near Fine. "The Devils" promotional book: Near Fine saddle-stapled with embossed Very Good plus jacket with light soiling rubbing and toning and a 1.5 inch tear to the front jacket near the spine. Program: 8 x 11 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. Press Kit: Folder 9 x 12 inches Very Good plus with light edgewear and rubbing. Press Releases 8.5 x 11 Near Fine. "The Daily Telegraph Magazine": 9.75 x 12 inches saddle-stapled. Very Good plus with light rubbing and edgewear. "Dirigido Por." magazine: 8 x 11 inches perfect bound. Very Good plus with wear and rubbing at the spine and staple holes near the spine. N.p. unknown books
1932Best.-Nr. 19432London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First Edition First Impression. Cloth. Good. The first edition first impression of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Octavo vii 306pp 2. Blue cloth boards title stamped in gilt. Top edge dyed blue. Notable wear to cloth boards with soiling and rubbing along all panels. Dampstain evident along fore edge of text block no internal impact. Bromer A29.3.1 Includes a facsimile dust jacket for presentation. Previous ownership inscription on the front pastedown the month after publication of the book: "Whitney Case / March 1932 / Avon. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1905Best.-Nr. 351633London: Watts & Co 1905. Pamphlet. 16 pages staplebound pamphlet. Ink stamp on inside front cover: "G.J. Caseley." Very Good. Religious essay. 12 holdings in WorldCat only 2 in the US. Watts & Co unknown books
1947Best.-Nr. 160973Universal City: Universal-International 1947. Vintage reference photograph of director Zoltán Korda talking with producer and head of Universal-International William Goetz on the set of the 1948 film noir. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Aldous Huxley's 1922 short story "The Gioconda Smile" about an unfaithful husband who is wrongly charged with the murder of his first wife. 8 x 10 inches. Slightly curled else Near Fine. Selby US. Spicer US. Universal-International unknown books
1925Best.-Nr. 8358New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Illustrated with portraits of the authors. Very Good in an about Near Fine jacket toned at the edges rubbed and bumped at the edges and folds. Quarter olive cloth with blue paper on the boards rubbed through at the corners. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge former owner's bookplate inside the front board clean otherwise. A collection of stories by authors who began publishing in the Georgian period. This the third volume in the series features "Little Mexican" from Aldous Huxley "The Shameless Behaviour of a Lord" by Michael Arlen "The Story of the Siren" by E.M. Forster "The Island" by L.P. Hartley among others. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
2009Best.-Nr. WELLER9780061561795Harper Perennial 2009. New. New book. Harper Perennial unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 207522London: Chatto & Windus 1950. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 260 pages. A collection of seven essays by Huxley. A clean and tight near fine copy in red cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket with a tear to the base of the front panel near the spine and some other light edge wear. A much nicer than usual copy. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1931Best.-Nr. 205250London: Chatto & Windus 1931. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 104 pages. A slim two act comedy from the author of "Brave New World" "The Doors of Perception" and numerous other books. A near fine copy in cloth boards and in a very good lightly soiled dust jacket with a few small chips and some other minor wear. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1926Best.-Nr. 366793London: Chatto and Windus 1926. First edition. 272 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth gilt. Slight discoloration at board edges. Very good plus in near fine dust jacket some age toning. First edition. 272 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Collects "Two or Three Graces" "The Monocle" "Half-Holiday" and "Fairy Godmother". Chatto and Windus unknown books
1964Best.-Nr. 197306New York: Harper & Row 1964. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Features text by Matthew Huxley. A collection of 148 images of which 48 are in color. A clean and tight near fine copy in two tone cloth boards with a tiny rubber-stamp: Gift of Nathan Lyons 1930-2016 to the front free endpaper and in a very good plus dust jacket with some light wear. Signed and warmly inscribed Cornell Capa to photographer Nathan Lyons. A terrific association copy as Capa helped found the International Center of Photography and Lyons along with his wife Joan founded the Visual Studies Workshop. Harper & Row unknown books
1953Best.-Nr. 191421953. Huxley Aldous. Brave New World 1953 Bantam edition of Huxley's dystopian novel depicts a technologically managed society in which human reproduction social hierarchy education consumption and pleasure are organized to preserve the World State. First published in 1932 the novel imagines human beings produced through artificial reproductive methods conditioned from childhood for predetermined social roles and pacified through the drug soma. Huxley sets this engineered stability against individual autonomy through Bernard Marx Lenina Crowne and John the Savage whose encounters with the World State expose the costs of a society that suppresses suffering family bonds religious belief intellectual independence and meaningful choice. Huxley Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Bantam Books 1953. 266 pages. Mass-market paperback measuring approximately 4½ x 6½ inches. The illustrated front wrapper shows a nude man leading a brunette woman away from a sleek futuristic cityscape toward an undeveloped landscape. Beneath the title Bantam advertises the book as "The mighty novel of a soulless streamlined Eden-and the two who escape it." The imagery and tagline emphasize the opposition between technological civilization and an imagined natural world presenting Huxley's dystopia to 1950s paperback readers through the language of escape from an apparently perfected but dehumanized society. This 1953 edition appeared more than two decades after the novel's original publication and recast Huxley's prewar dystopia for a postwar mass-market readership living amid rapid technological development expanding consumer culture and contemporary debate over individual autonomy and social control. Bantam's description of the World State as a "streamlined Eden" specifically emphasizes the novel's critique of efficiency and material comfort when achieved through conditioning and restrictions on individual choice. Wrappers show discoloration and scattered scuffing; spine panel chipped and stress-creased with consistent age toning throughout. Overall good condition. A postwar paperback edition distinguished by Bantam's period artwork and advertising which present Huxley's engineered society through a distinctly 1950s visual conception of technological modernity. unknown books
1930Best.-Nr. 322376London: The Amalgamated Press Ltd 1930. First edition. In 30 fortnightly parts. Large 4to. Pictorial wrappers. In half blue morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition. In 30 fortnightly parts. Large 4to. The Amalgamated Press Ltd unknown books
2000Best.-Nr. 189287Chicago IL: Ivan R. Dee Publishers 2000. First edition. Uncorrected proofs of the first two volumes of the essays for Aldous Huxley. Edited and with commentary by Robert S. Baker and James Sexton. Book books in near fine condition in printed wrappers with some minor wear. Ivan R. Dee, Publishers unknown books
1949Best.-Nr. 60151London: Chatto and Windus 1949. First edition 8vo pp. ix 1; 244 2; portrait frontispiece; blue publisher's cloth gilt; fine in very good dust jacket with closed tear at top of spine and slight abrasion to upper panel. Chatto and Windus unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 58195New York and London: Harper & Brothers 1937. First American edition 16mo pp. 2 104 2; original green paper wrappers; wrappers soiled underlining and marginal notes in pencil throughout otherwise very good and sound. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. 56835Leipzig: Biologischen Zentralblatt 1927. 8vo pp. 151-163 1 i.e. 14 pages; self-wrappers 5 text illustrations; shallow tears on fore-edge else fine. OCLC locates only the USC copy of this offprint. Biologischen Zentralblatt unknown books
1925Best.-Nr. 56785Cambridge: Reprinted from the Journal of Anatomy 1925. 8vo pp. 379-384; original printed wrappers. Reprinted from the Journal of Anatomy vol. LIX Part IV July 1925. Reprinted from the Journal of Anatomy unknown books
1920Best.-Nr. 56787London: Reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 1920. 8vo pp. 413-417 1 3 leaves; original wrappers with printed label. Reprinted from The Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science Vol. 64 Part 3 March 1920. Reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science unknown books
1921Best.-Nr. 56593London: Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 1921. 8vo pp. 293-322 6 two plates 18 leaves; original green printed wrappers. Reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science Vol. 65 Part II March 1921. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science unknown books
1922Best.-Nr. 56999Oxford: reprinted from the Biological Bulletin 1922. 8vo pp. 209-239 i.e. 32 pages; orignal plain wrappers; staple-bound; some gatherings unopened; inscription at the top of the front wrapper of Dr. E. J. Lund whose name appears in the bibliography. Reprinted from the Biological Bulletin vol. xliii no. 3 September 1922. reprinted from the Biological Bulletin unknown books
1925Best.-Nr. 56594Edinburgh: Printed by Oliver and Boyd 1925. 8vo pp. 9-34 2 1 photographic plate; original green printed wrappers; illuatrations throughout. Reprinted from the British Journal of Experimental Biology Vol. III October 1925. Printed by Oliver and Boyd unknown books
1924Best.-Nr. 56588England: Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 1924. 8vo pp. 471-479 1 2 1 photographic plate 6 leaves; original green printed wrappers; illustrated throughout. Reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science Vol. 68 Part III October 1924. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science unknown books
1924Best.-Nr. 56595Edinburgh: Printed by Oliver and Boyd 1924. 8vo pp. 215-248 17 leaves; original green printed wrappers. Reprinted from the British Journal of Experimental Biology Vol. 1 January 1924. Printed by Oliver and Boyd unknown books
