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1918rif. 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
1964rif. 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
1925rif. 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
1924rif. 226812London Chatt & Windus 1924. 1924. First limited special edition. 8vo. 3 page introduction by Aldous Huxley. 1/2 black cloth with printed paper label on the spine over black green pink and white patterned boards uncut and partly unopened. Dust jacket. Very good. 121 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Number 205 of 210 copies printed on Italian handmade paper. Publisher's complementary copy with slip laid in loose from Chatto & Windus April 2 1924. Also laid in loose is a slip that reads: "With J.B. Pinker & Son's Compliments." Printed at the Curwen Press. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. London, Chatt & Windus, 1924. hardcover
1951rif. 240508013Harper 1951 1951. hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. Harper, (1951) hardcover
1925rif. 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
1964rif. 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
1973rif. 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
1979rif. 86334NY: Octagon Books 1979. First edition. ix 150 pp w/index. Very near fine in full blue cloth with gilt stamping to front panel and spine. No dust jacket as issued. Foreword by Huxley. NY: Octagon Books, hardcover books
1924rif. 226812London Chatt & Windus 1924. 1924. First limited special edition. 8vo. 3 page introduction by Aldous Huxley. 1/2 black cloth with printed paper label on the spine over black green pink and white patterned boards uncut and partly unopened. Dust jacket. Very good. 121 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Number 205 of 210 copies printed on Italian handmade paper. Publisher's complementary copy with slip laid in loose from Chatto & Windus April 2 1924. Also laid in loose is a slip that reads: "With J.B. Pinker & Son's Compliments." Printed at the Curwen Press. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. London, Chatt & Windus, 1924. hardcover books
1925rif. 26229London: Macmillan and Co. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Some foxing.; 697-752 pages. Bound in plain grey boards. A 56 page supplement with contributions on Thomas Henry Huxley written by various authors. Page dimensions: 262 x 181mm. Illustrated. Text in double columns. Contents: "The Centenary of Huxley"; "Home Memories" by Leonard Huxley; "Huxley" by Sir E. Ray Lankester; "Thomas Henry Huxley" by Prof. E. B. Poulton; "Plant Biology in the 'Seventies" by Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer; "Teaching of Biological Science" by Prof. F. O. Bower; "The Beginnings of Instruction in General Biology" by Prof. S. H Vines; "Huxley and Evolution" by W. Bateson; "Huxley as Evolutionist" by Prof. J. Arthur Thomson; "Huxley as Anthropologist" by Sir Arthur Keith; "Evolution and Man" by Edward Clodd; "Enduring Recollections" by Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn; "Contributions to Vertebrate Palaeontology" by Sir Arthur Smith Woodward; "Structure and Evolution in Vertebrate Palaeontology" by Prof. D. M. S. Watson; "Geological Thought and Teaching" by Prof. W. W. Watts; "Huxley's Contributions to our Knowledge of the Invertebrata" by Prof. E. W. MacBride; "Processes of Life and Mind" by Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan; "Huxley as Teacher" by Prof. Patrick Geddes; "Huxley's Message in Education" by Prof. H. E. Armstrong; "The Master" by Prof. W. J. Sollas; "Truth and Righteousness" by Stephen Paget; "Huxley's Message to the Modern World" by Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell; "Personal Impressions" by C. V. Boys; "A Student's Reminiscences" by Rev. E. F. Russell; "The Huxley Memorial Lecture and Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute." . [Macmillan and Co.] hardcover
1960rif. S6112New York:: Horizon Press 1960. 1960. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 8vo. xxi 330 pp. Frontis. port. 12 plates 3 figs. selected bibliog. of Huxley's writings index. Cloth dust-jacket; jacket edges taped to cloth. Ex library copy. Good. Horizon Press, (1960). hardcover books
rif. 201015293Lausanne, Nouvelles editions sa , 1957 ; in-4, 81 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur.
rif. 201205185Paris, Librairie plon, 1947 ; in-12, 305 pp., br. Tome 2 tache de rousseur.
rif. 201313620Paris, La jeune parque , 1946 ; in-12, 244 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Demi bsane marron très bel état.
rif. 201205544Pas, Les editions universelles , 1945 ; in-12, 299 pp., br.
1946rif. _201600789Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 1946 ; in-8, 296 pp., broché. Aldous HUXLEY est un auteur anglais né à Godalming et décédé à Los Angeles. Ami de D. H. Lawrence. Il est surtout connu comme l'auteur du "Meilleur des Mondes" de "l'Île" et des "Portes de la Perception". Collection «Pierres vives», section étrangère dirigée par C. E. Magny. Traduction de Jules Castier.
rif. 201222247Paris, La jeune parque , 1945 ; in-8, 254 pp., br.
rif. 201907026Monaco, Editions du Rocher - les palmes, 1946 ; in-12, 422 pp., br. Très bon état - traduit de l'anglais par Julia Bastin.
rif. 201222770Monaco, Editions du rocher , 1946 ; in-12, 422 pp., br.
rif. 200711903Monaco, Editions du Rocher - les palmes, 1946 ; in-12, 422 pp., broché (ptes usures). Traduit de l'anglais par Julia Bastin.
rif. 200619639Monaco, Editions du Rocher, 1946 ; in-12, 422 pp., broché (ptes usures). Traduit de l'anglais par Julia Bastin.
rif. 201508900Paris, Slatkine , 1980 ; in-8, 245 pp., br.
1948rif. _202303838ParisMonaco, Éditions du Rocher, 1948 ; in-8 (122 x 188 mm), [4]-292 pp., relié demi-cuir à coins, coloris bleu foncé, dos à 3 nerfs, tête jaspée (coiffe de tête dégradée, épidermure; fente à la charnière). Traduit de l'anglais par Fernande DAURIAC.
1937rif. 2226Oxford: Printed by John Johnson at the Oxford University Press for The Oxford Society 1937. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Pp. 62 followed by 10 pages of Oxford businesses. Generously illustrated with black and white photography plans and reproductions of old etchings. Bound in stiff paper wraps printed in blue and yellow and featuring the Oxford crest on the front cover. Edges a bit age-toned with short closed tears. Please see photo. Laid in is a printed letter from Lord Halifax unsigned addressed to the Vice Chancellor of Balliol expressing sympathy with the effort to raise funds for Oxford. Halifax has also contributed the introduction. Essentially a prospectus soliciting funds for the expansion of the Bodleian Library. Includes many photos of the library as is with librarians contending with the cataloging of stacks of recent acquisitions stacks in the Sheldonian Cellars students studying etc. as well as a photo of the architectural model for the expansion. Contributors include considering the Bodleian in from many perspectives include Greene Powicke Craster Gilbert Scott Julian Huxley Lindsay Mitchell Lindemann Tizard et al. Printed by John Johnson at the Oxford University Press for The Oxford Society paperback
