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1947rif. 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
1947rif. 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
1938rif. 031233UK 1938. First Edition . Paper. Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. A Wonderful Original Handwritten and Signed Four-Sided Letter from Juliette Huxley to Ottoline Morrell. Undated but C1938. The Zoological Society Regent's Park N.W.8 Primrose 2832 29 March. Dearest Ottoline I am so terribly sorry to hear that Philip is ill and under treatment; I have just phoned Milly & she gave me the news poor Ottoline how I wish this had been better - But she tells me that Philip has already benefited a lot from the rest & I do hope with all my heart that he will soon be all right again. And you will also improve your health it was sad you got a chill abroad setting you back again for a spell - luckily we are out of winter & fogs however strange the weather & time should help - I hope Dr Cameron doesn't let you tire yourself & that you are not wearing yourself with anxiety - I can't tell you how sorry how I am - dearest Ottoline. You have I expect heard from Maria about Aldous - we had a long letter Friday. He seems out of the woods thank God but how long till he is fit again Julian is taking a treatment of Prontosil which may or may not clear up the bacteria in the sinuses If not he will have to be operated soon. He is now off work for a week not a depressed as I feared Prontosil is depressing drug & a little better today - he still looks unwell. I'll let you know if he has this operation which I still wish could be avoided you feel that he can't go on like this & must get the sinuses drained. Kos is sad having lost the Irish Sweep - just when he really needed it! He is a bit worried about his home & I am preaching a House Agent to him - I can't see how he'll find a tenant otherwise. Brett is off to her desert again tomorrow. Funny old thing - unchanged really - she looks much older is fat dresses v. badly but is still like a startled bird. I thought you were very wise not to see her. I am outside her Ken; I think she has chosen well to live her life out there. Did you hear Julian got his Royal Society Fellowship the other day He was pleased. With many many wishes for your health & Philip's recovery & so much love. Juliette. Juliette Lady Huxley née Marie Juliette Baillot; 1896 -1994 was a Swiss-French sculptor and writer. She provided lifelong support to her husband British naturalist Sir Julian Huxley. Around 1915 she began working as a tutor to the daughter of Lady Ottoline Morrell at Garsington. It was there in 1916 that she met Aldous Huxley and his brother Julian. She and Julian were married in 1919. Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell 1873 - 1938 was an English aristocrat and society hostess. Her patronage was influential in artistic and intellectual circles where she befriended writers including Aldous Huxley Siegfried Sassoon T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence and artists including Mark Gertler Dora Carrington and Gilbert Spencer. Size is 230mm x 176mm. Condition is good. Folding creases. Ref 19237 unknown
1923rif. 031234UK 1923. First Edition . Paper. Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. A Wonderful Original Handwritten Signed Eight-Sided Letter and Envelope from Juliette Huxley to Ottoline Morrell discussing her Relationship with her husband Sir Julian Huxley. Undated but circa 1923. The envelope is addressed to The Lady Ottoline Morrell Kurhaus HovenFreiberg in Brisgau Baden Germany. The letter reads 31 Hillway Highgate N.6. Mountview 5744. Dear Ottoline I should have answered your letter before but I was laid up - oh these eternal bacteriological tournaments & am still in bed slowly & so painfully recovering. I have no patience with my illnesses & resent their catching hold of my heels so cunningly. - This time the specialist came up & I hope will get at the root of the trouble & cure me somehow. Forgive this boring affair - You know too much about ill-health & I should not bore you with mine. J. has written to me that the "marriage" is off. He cabled the girl & jilted her. She is naturally v. upset - & has threatened to come over - meanwhile he has written me and wants to see me terribly - I took ill & had to put him off & shall now see him next week - He now says He never ceased loving me & wants to start over again. And of course cannot wait a day - All so unstable so unreliable - I want a man not a shuttlecock. He is obviously in a highly nervous state clutching at every straw & refusing still to look at himself calmly - He hasn't found his soul in her pocket as he hoped - & so turns to me. When will he understand that no-one but himself can give him peace - he must work & weep & hunger for it & know bitter suffering - I cannot help him until he accepts his defeat - & thereby wins his soul. I must not help him for it would destroy me again. I sound hard - I know but I have to be. The price of peace & life - Don't misunderstand me. By not helping I mean I cannot take him back now at once & listen to his self-justification. I can only stand there & leave the door ajar. And even so I tremble - It's all so minutely adjusted like acrobatic trapezes & every fault will mean more pain. And yet why should I grudge a little more pain Pain has been my enemy until she lived in me - & then she became so much a friend - But before what hell it was - could it begin again I am glad you are with Dr Martin - I think of you getting stronger & living in light - I dreamt I was choosing new curtains last night with you - in a high room; grey panelled. The walls were hung with little stripes of bright colours running up like flames - All day it has been a background to my mind lovely colours like yours. I lie in my huge bed & think of them & of lovely words linked together to make poetry like magic casements opening up on the foam of fairy lands forlorn - one's world becomes so small & almost like a nest as one lies in bed - The house has only one room the room one window - one suffices to oneself. Yes but life lies waiting on the doorstep & there will be the inescapable decisions - there will be Julian poor silly Julian! This is an absurdly long letter - & I haven't said half I wanted - I send you my love; I'd like to discover a lovely poem to send you - I find too many. Matthew Arnold has fallen fresh as a star into my room. I revel in it. You like him It is like Gower St. I'm on the doorstep since half an hour & cannot go away - Because your front door makes such a radiance about everything - & it is so warm. Dearest Ottoline good night. Juliette. Juliette Lady Huxley née Marie Juliette Baillot; 1896 -1994 was a Swiss-French sculptor and writer. She provided lifelong support to her husband British naturalist Sir Julian Huxley. Around 1915 she began working as a tutor to the daughter of Lady Ottoline Morrell at Garsington. It was there in 1916 that she met Aldous Huxley and his brother Julian. She and Julian were married in 1919. Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell 1873 - 1938 was an English aristocrat and society hostess. Size is 165mm x 122mm. Condition good. R19237 unknown
1968rif. PRINT25PM0023Abbot Universal Ltd. 1968 1968. Pamphlet. Collectible; Very Good. First edition. Prompt shipment with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Offprint. First separate edition. Offprint. Original wrappers. Includes a letter from the Editor. Other Articles:Chronic Cyanide Intoxication by G.L. Monekosso M.D. F.R.C.P.Diving Accidents by J. Adolfson Ph.D./C. Lindemark M.D.An Atlas of Functional Anatomy of the Mitral Valve by J. Zimmerman M.D. F.R.C.S.Abulcasis by Farid Sami Haddad M.D.Asbestos and Cancer by J. C. Wagner M.D.An Appraisal of Facial Morphology by Mario Gonz Abbot Universal Ltd. 1968 unknown
1924rif. 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
1996rif. 58358New York NY U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press LLC. Very Good. 1996. Soft Cover. 0312140959 G151-2 . Saint Martin's Press, LLC paperback
rif. 0330237772.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1965rif. RO80160300HORIZONS DE FRANCE. 1965. In-4. Cartonnage d'éditeurs. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 240 pages. Nombreuses planches de photos en héliogravure et en couleurs. Jaquette passée et en état d'usage.. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 909-Civilisation
1965rif. R240094895HORIZONS DE FRANCE. 1965. In-4. Relié. Etat d'usage, Tâchée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 240 pages - nombreuses photographies en noir et blanc et en couleurs hors texte - contre plats illustrés en noir et blanc .. . . . Classification Dewey : 970-Histoire générale de l'Amérique du Nord
1965rif. 153581965 Horizons de france 1965 in4. 1965. Relié jaquette. 237 pagesbonétat
rif. 9786558301660-11-00004FisicalBook. New. FisicalBook unknown
1956rif. mon0000994727Chatto & Windus 1956. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. First edition first printing. Pages clean no markings light wear to edges. Dust Jacket price clipped. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1956rif. 906Q28London: Chatto & Windus 1956 . Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Good. 8" by 5.5". None. The second impression of this collection of essays written by Aldous Huxley with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The second impression. With the original unclipped dust wrapper.This work is comprised of seventeen essays written by renowned English author and philosopher Aldous Huxley. In this collection the author reflects on modern man's relationship with the past looking towards the present and ominous future. Huxley explores a variety of subjects to this end including music poetry and travel.With a bookseller label of 'Libreria Internacional' from Santiago Chile to the front paste down. Bound in the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very good indeed with the occasional mark to cloth and a little discolouration to the tail of the spine. Bookseller label to the front paste down and light spots to fore edge. Dust wrapper is sound with light chipping to the extremities and loss to the backstrip near the head. Slight rubbing to joints and flyleaves with sunning to the spine and extremities. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed Chatto & Windus hardcover
1956rif. 914P19London: Chatto & Windus 1956. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5.5". None. The first edition of this brilliant anthology of essays by Aldous Huxley from the library of Brian Aldiss. The first edition first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.From the library of Brian Aldiss with his signature to the recto of the front endpaper and a note loosely inserted regarding the provenance from his daughter Wendy Aldiss. Aldiss was a popular English science fiction author an influential writer of the twentieth century. One of his short stories 'Supertoys Last All Summer Long' was the basis for the Stanley Kubrick - Steven Spielberg 2001 film 'A. I. Artificial Intelligence'. He was part of the British New Wave of sci-fi and was greatly influenced by H. G. Wells.Review copy with publisher's slip loosely inserted with Aldiss' pencil notes on this work loosely inserted.Restaurant receipt loosely inserted. A collection of seventeen curious essays by Aldous Huxley in which he is explores various philosophical topics. Including 'The Education of an Amphibian' 'Knowledge and Understanding' 'The Desert' 'Ozymandias' 'Liberty Quality Machinery' and many others. In the original publisher"s cloth binding in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally smart. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Brian Aldiss" signature to the recto of the front endpaper. Dust wrapper is lightly edge worn and age-toned. A few light marks to the wraps. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine Chatto & Windus hardcover
1975rif. SBBIH-FO5FZLQPTFKZChatto & Windus 1975. hardcover. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1956rif. 1406380London: Chatto and Windus Limited 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 285 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine green and maroon with beige and blue lettering. Exterior has moderate wear including modest age toning faint soiling and few minor chips to the head/tail edges. Age toning to the interior. Boards have slight wear including light sunning bumped spine edges and slightly cocked spine. Text block has slight plus wear including mild age toning to the fore/tail edges with head edge colored blue. Slight offsetting to the end papers. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Column X. 1406380. FP New Rockville Stock. Chatto and Windus Limited hardcover books
19568vo., First Edition, fore-edges a little dust-soiled; green cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
19568vo., First Edition, neat illustration on front free endpaper; green cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter frayed at extremities, chipped (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip, and mildly browned on (predominantly white) rear panel.
1950rif. FB9515 /L19In the original dust cover. Beige cloth binding with black title on the spine. We provide an in-depth photographic presentation of this item to stimulate your feeling and touch. More traditional book descriptions are immediately available Whilst regarded as liberal in its day this book is often regarded today as a product of British Imperial thinking. Hardback with the rather rubbed pictorial dust-jacket. pp 285. Four colour photographs 14 in b/w frontispiece and a map. Original maroon cloth boards. Great copy in the rather worn jacket. Please read book details on flyleaf. Francis Huxley was a British botanist and anthropologist son of Julian Huxley and nephew of Aldous. Affable Savages is his first book. Book. Francis John Heathorn Huxley 28 August 1923 – 29 October 2016 was a British zoologist anthropologist and author. With a short professional career at St Catherine's College Oxford he is best known for his several anthropological expeditions to The Gambia the Amazon and Haiti among other places from which he wrote several notable books. NOTE: This is an original book from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don computer scientist food and wine connoisseur Jack Arnold LANG. Note: Jack founded the Michelin Guide 'Midsummer House'- Cambridge's paramount restaurant. This dining experience is hidden amongst the grassy pastures and grazing cattle of Midsummer Common and perched on the banks of the River Cam. In 2008 Jack was one of the co-founders of the Raspberry Pi Foundation alongside other members of the Department and acted as the Foundation's Chair. The project's original goals were modest: to build and distribute low-cost computers for prospective applicants to our Computer Science degree. Initially the project was a "success disaster" as Jack would say as demand far outstripped the low-scale manufacturing plans. Ultimately the Raspberry Pi became the UK's most successful computer with more than 60 million sold to date. Jack was drawn to the educational possibilities of the Raspberry Pi its potential uses in emerging economies and the way it could support self-directed learning. The Scientific Book Club. hardcover
1957rif. 242890New York: Viking 1957. Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition. Good in good dust jacket. Smudge on bottom corners of pages. Pages clean. Name plate inside front cover. Corners slightly rubbed and bent. Solid book. Dustwrapper price clipped. Wear and tear on edges of dust jacket. Shelf rubbing to dust jacket. Viking hardcover books
rif. 158936hardcover. Illus. 8vo cloth. N.Y.: Viking 1957. vg unknown books
rif. BN461771Piper. Affe und Wesen: Ein Roman aus der Zeit nach dem Atomkrieg Piper Taschenbuch Affe und Wesen: Ein Roman aus der Zeit nach dem Atomkrieg Piper Taschenbuch Huxley Aldous und Herbert Schlüter Piper unknown
1951rif. 1217175Steinberg-Verlag; Zürich, 1951. 158 Seiten; 20,5 cm; fadengeh., rückengoldgepr. Orig.-Leinenband.
rif. 97130aafLondon, Aldus / Jupiter Books 1973, in-8vo, 488 p. richly ill., small legat stamp, Original-clothbound with jacket
