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1930réf. 81387London: Chatto & Windus 1930. First edition. vii 323 pp. Foxing to page edges and endpapers else near fine in near fine dust jacket the tanned spine that has shallow chipping to base and crown. London: Chatto & Windus, unknown books
1880réf. 466421880. Huxley Thomas Henry 1825-95. On the application of the laws of evolution to the arrangement of the vertebrata and more particularly of the mammalia. Offprint from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1880. 649-662pp. 223 x 156 mm. Original plain wrappers small split at spine minor dust-soiling. Very good. First Edition Offprint Issue. Huxley here lays out the successive stages of mammalian evolution from the simplest to the highest forms and extends this "law" of ancestral evolution to all vertebrates. . unknown books
1864réf. 466441864. Huxley Thomas 1825-95. On the angwántibo Arctocebus calabarensis gray of old Calabar. Offprint from Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864. 8vo. 23pp. 207 x 137 mm. Disbound. Small tear in first leaf light browning otherwise very good. First Separate Edition; very scarce. On the anatomy of the Calabar potto an African primate of the family Lorisidae of which the bushbaby is also a member. . unknown books
1901réf. 37010New York: Appleton 1901. 2 vols in 1. First American edition. Appleton unknown books
1994réf. 33597London: Michael Joseph 1994. Michael Joseph unknown books
1863réf. 16625London: Robert Hardwicke 1863. Robert Hardwicke unknown books
1992réf. 06051scsLondon: Macmillan 1992. Four Volumes. Quarto cloth lviii 815 pp viii 747 pp vii 888 pp. Illus. maps. Former-owner embossed stamps; otherwise Fine. Macmillan, [1992]. Four Volumes. hardcover books
1931réf. 24162Garden City: Doubleday Doran and Company 1931. First American edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very good in a very good jacket. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, hardcover books
1973réf. 30322London: Chatto & Windus/William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1973. First edition. 400 pp. Brief ink notation--three numbers-- on the front free endpaper else very near fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket with a tear to spine and a small chip from back cover. Invitation to the publication party for the American edition laid in. London: Chatto & Windus/William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd unknown books
1871réf. 63335New York: D. Appleton & Company 90 92 & 94 Grand Street 1871. First American edition. 20cm. xi 378pp. 6 ads. Rust colored embossed pebbled cloth with gilt stamped spine. Period ownership signature on flyleaf. Near fine. D. Appleton & Company, 90, 92 & 94 Grand Street unknown books
1863réf. 23369New York: D. Appleton and Company 1863. Cloth. Very Good. The 1863 1st American edition. Tight and VG in its original light-brown pebbled boards with peeling and wear at the spine's paper title label all-but-unreadable and very light soiling to the panels. Internally the pages are crisp and bright but there is light staining at the inner hinges and along the edges of the pastedowns and endsheets. Octavo 150 pgs. plus publisher's ads. at the rear. Huxley's response --in the form of six lectures-- to the 1859 publication of Darwin's beyond-seminal text "the most influential scientific work of the nineteenth century D. Appleton and Company unknown books
1968réf. 14097New York: Greenwood Press 1968. Cloth. Near Fine. A very handsome example of this 1968 Greenwood Press re-issue of T.H. Huxley's collected essays complete in 9 volumes. Save for a tiny former owner name and date stamped to the top-edge of each front pastedown all 9 volumes are tight and crisp and virtually pristine. Thick uniform octavos in their wine-red cloth with bright unrubbed gilt-lettering along the spines each volume is solid and well-preserved and easily Near Fine. This collection of essays from the renowned English biologist even in this re-issue is uncommon as such in its complete run. Greenwood Press unknown books
1918réf. S9148London:: John Murray 1918. 1918. Two volumes. 8vo. x 2 546; vi 569 pp. Frontis. Blue cloth gilt-stamped cover ornaments gilt-stamped spine titles; recased new endpapers. Fine. First edition second printing August 1918. This two-volume is the first full-length biography of Hooker written and edited by Leonard Huxley with the assistance of Hooker's widow Lady Hyacinth Hooker. Hooker 1817-1911 British botanist was arguably the most important botanical figure of the nineteenth century. A traveler and plant-collector he was one of Charles Darwin's closest friends and eventually succeeding his father to became director of Britain's Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in 1865. Hooker was chief botanist 1839-1843 teaming with Dr. David Lyall of the Antarctic voyage on the discovery ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror the consort to Erebus; the Terror was commanded by Crozier under the command of Sir James Clark Ross visiting Madeira and the Cape of South Africa. During the voyage he also served as assistant surgeon on the Erebus. In 1848-51 he journeyed at Nepal and India collecting many specimens preserved at Kew Gardens. See: W. B. Turrill Joseph Dalton Hooker. Botanist Explorer and Administrator London 1963. John Murray, 1918. hardcover books
1956réf. AH031London: Chatto & Windus 1956 First edition first printing. Publisher's red cloth with spine stamped in gilt; in its original blue dust jacket designed by John Woodcock with two overlapping circles to front panel lettered in red and white. Near fine book with a faint line of toning along upper edge of front board and light offsetting to endpapers; very good or better unclipped dust jacket with heavy toning to spine and along upper edge of rear panel shallow chipping to head of spine minimal edgewear to front panel and lightly nicked corners. Overall a sleek and lovely copy. "Heaven and Hell" is a companion volume to Huxley's landmark essay "The Doors of Perception." In "Heaven and Hell" Huxley continues his discussion on psychedelic drugs which he claims take the experimenter to "an unexplored New World of the mind" jacket flap. The essay is followed by eight appendices that touch on vitamin starvation fireworks artwork and other sources of visionary power. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. London: Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1964réf. 623447Cambridge Massachusetts: The Psychedelic Review 1964. Softcover. Very Good. Vol. I No. 3. Edited by Paul A. Lee and Ralph Metzner. Octavo. 261-370pp. Illustrated. Owner name of a noted American psychologist on the contents page. Spine toned small "P" written on cover and a bit of light tanning and wear very good or better. Aldous Huxley Memorial Issue with remembrances by Alan Watts Timothy Leary Gerald Heard and Huston Smith. Also prints a seven-page excerpt from Charles Olson's Maximum Poems "The Religious Experience: Its Product and Interpretation" by Timothy Leary and an article on the hallucinogens of Mexico by R. Gordon Wasson. The Psychedelic Review unknown books
1969réf. 602066London: Chatto & Windus 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint. Octavo. 336pp. Ex-library with minimal markings owner name penned on front fly with underlining on a few pages else very good in a very good dust jacket with spine label one-inch tear on spine head. Essays on war religion nationalism and ethics. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1897réf. 605063New York: D. Appleton 1897. Hardcover. Very Good. Authorized edition. 328pp. Illustrated. Blue cloth gilt spine. Small nicks at top margin of a few leaves binding slightly cocked very good or better. Collected Essays Volume 7. D. Appleton hardcover books
1898réf. 605060New York: D. Appleton 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Authorized edition. 430pp. Blue cloth gilt spine. Light foxing on front endpapers rubbing and soiling on boards very good. Collected Essays Volume 1. D. Appleton hardcover books
1898réf. 605062New York: D. Appleton 1898. Hardcover. Near Fine. Authorized edition. 419pp. Blue cloth gilt spine. Boards lightly rubbed about near fine. Collected Essays Volume 5. D. Appleton hardcover books
1988réf. 606303London: Dance Books 1988. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. 198pp. Glossy pictorial wrappers. Partial owner bookplate of Kariamu Welsh on half-title page small creases on rear wrap near fine. Welsh was an author dance choreographer and the director of Temple University's Institute for African Dance Research and Performance. Dance Books unknown books
1940réf. 570728New York: Harper and Brothers 1940. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Foxing on topedge else near fine in a very good dust jacket with a scratch on the front panel and foxing visible mostly on the inside of the jacket. Author's third mystery a thriller set in Africa. A nice presentable copy. Harper and Brothers hardcover books
1998réf. 578538New York: St. Martin's Press 1998. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Publisher's press release laid in. A Fable. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
1958réf. 540201No place: The Curtis Publishing Company 1958. Softcover. Fine. Offprint. Quarto. Five side-stapled leaves. 9pp. Trifle worn and a couple of very tiny stains about fine. An article on mind-altering substances including alcohol opium LSD and "tranquilizers" for which Huxley notes that American doctors wrote 47000000 prescriptions in 1957. First published in The Saturday Evening Post October 18 1958. This essay would be included in several collections of Huxley's essays but we note only one copy of this Curtis Publishing offprint Curtis published The Saturday Evening Post at SUNY Geneseo. The Curtis Publishing Company unknown books
1988réf. 468159New York: Viking 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book club edition. Light foxing on page edges else fine in a very good dust jacket with interior dampstains and light edgewear with a tiny tear at the crown. Viking hardcover books
2019réf. 502267London: Thames & Hudson 2019. Softcover. Fine. Reprint. Trade paperback. Illustrated. Inked initials on first leaf else fine in wrappers. Thames & Hudson unknown books