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rif. 51552New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Light grey cloth with gilt lettering pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 514pp 8pp ads. Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear only; poignant nonauthorial ownership inscription on copyright page. Handsome and tight later late 1950s printing of Modern Library #180 first published by them in 1930 -- the British novelist's long 1928 "novel of ideas." Intriguingly inner flyleaf bears a custom 3½" X 4½" bookplate designed by celebrated painter/illustrator Rockwell Kent 1882-1971 for the writer/artist he hand-picked as his biographer/bibliographer: Printed name reads "Jacquie & Dan Burne Jones." Dan Burne Jones 1908-95 was an artist in his own right and authored the 1975 "The Prints of Rockwell Kent: A Catalogue Raisonne. The Modern Library hardcover
rif. 50893New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Light grey cloth with gilt lettering pictorial dust jacket. 514pp 8pp ads. Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/near fine. Faintest of jacket wear to edges; ownership signature on half-title page and top of one text page. Handsome and tight later late 1950s printing of Modern Library #180 first published by them in 1930 -- the British novelist's long 1928 "novel of ideas." This copy bears a choice autograph addition: In 1968 BBC brought out a mini-series version and this copy bears both a signature and an Autograph Note Signed from one of its co-stars. DAVID COLLINGS 1940-2020 portrays distraught intellectual Maurice Spandrell and tipped to the blank leaf facing the title page is a unique frontispiece a fine heavy stock 5" X 3" card boldly signed by Collings in black fineline which he dates 10 September 1986 at upper right. In addition tipped to inner flyleaf is an admirer's typed note folded in half to Collings; the actor writes "P.T.O." Please Turn Over on this and upon opening he writes a cordial note: "Thank you for your letter & apologies for replying on the back side of it but this is written in great haste." and again signed. Laid in is the perfect bookmark: Collings’ original transmittal envelope. The Modern Library hardcover
1928rif. COLLECTI014756IGARDEN CITY NEW YORK: DOUBLEDAY DORAN & CO INC. FINE IN A VG D.J. 1928. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. BROMER A18.4.1 . PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL LIGHT GREEN CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH TAN PAPER TITLE LABEL TO THE SPINE WITHE LIGHT GREY DECORATED ENDPAPERS AND TOP EDGE STAINED PURPLE. THE BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. THE PALE GREEN PRINTED D.J. HAS SOME MODEST LOSS TO THE CORNERS AND SPINE-ENDS WITH A TRACE OF DUSTING AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AN EXCE LLENT CLEAN BRIGHT UNFADED COPY. . DOUBLEDAY DORAN & CO, INC hardcover
1928rif. 01AIR0706.Original cloth lightly spotted on spine corners of upper board knocked binding sound. Top edges of pages dyed orange to match binding. Personal library book plate tipped on on front paste-down. Page edges foxed but text block clean. Unclipped cream-coloured dust-jacket lightly tanned mainly along folds and top edge. 1.5cm tear at head of spine cover minor edge wear it is creased vertically as a result of being folded and used as a bookmark! The first trade edition of Huxley's longest novel a satire with characters based on people he knew including Dorothy Brett Nancy Cunard D.H.Lawrence Katherine Mansfield John Middleton Murry and Lady Ottoline Morell. Note: As this is a relatively heavy volume please email first before placing order to obtain an estimate of the postage for your area of residence. Chatto & Windus. hardcover
1928rif. 1390286London UK: Chatto & Windus 1928. First Limited Edition First Printing #220/256. Hardcover. Octavo 601 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in publisher's green cloth with a tanned spine and gilt lettering. Boards have mild shelving wear stains on the front and rear covers and light fraying along the fore corners and spine head and tail edges. Textblock has light soiling throughout a pencil mark on the second rear end-page mild wear along the edges moderate age-toning along the edges stains along the edges and gilt along the head edges. Signed twice once by former U.S. Navy Secretary Paul H. Nitze on the front end-page and once by author Aldous Huxley on the publisher's limitation page limited edition #220/256. DL consignment. Shelved in Case 6. "Point Counter Point" is Aldous Huxley's fourth novel and is notable for it's more complex and serious tone as well as for being the longest novel he would write. It remains well regarded for it's method of storytelling and would see a BBC adaptation in 1968. Aldous Huxley was born July 26 1894 to the prominent Huxley family. He would become well-known for his depictions of both dystopia and utopia in fiction and as a prominent universalist philosopher. Paul H. Nitze was a former U.S. Secretary of the Navy under President Lyndon B. Johnson. Having begun government service during World War II he would be immensely influential in shaping American policy towards the Soviet Union during the Cold War helping to establish the policy of "containment" and heightened militarization of the American state. 1390286. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1928rif. 585189London: Chatto & Windus 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Spine tanned and boards lightly soiled preliminary and terminal leaves modestly foxed a very good copy lacking the dust jacket. An important novel considered by many to be Huxley's most ambitious and complex. Chatto & Windus hardcover
rif. 897Slight spine lean minor wear with light hinge breaks at pages 161 and 176. Very good. CDK-897. Aldous Huxley. Point Counter Point. London: Chatto & Windus 1928. First British edition. Octavo. 601pp. Publisher's red cloth spine lettered in gilt red top-stain. . . unknown
1928rif. 435Octavo original russet cloth original dust jacket. First trade edition of Huxley's longest novel. Banned in Ireland in 1930 on the ground of "offending public morals" Huxley's "satire on the absurdities of human behavior" is "cynical and scathing witty and sharp" An English Library 29. "Where else shall we find so brilliant and compendious a diagnosis of the modern world It is not his technique excellent as that is but the unifying power of his vision that exalts his work into the condition of music" The Saturday Review. Preceded by a signed limited edition of 256 copies. Eschelbach & Shober 49. Schulz 124. Haight 74. Book is very good toning to spine with light wear at the heel overall a very good unclipped dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1930rif. B64346New York: Harper & Brothers 1930. Hardcover. Ex-library/Very good. Early reprint code F-E indicating a June 1930 print date! Blue cloth boards in dust jacket octavo not illustrated. Book has library blindstamp date stamp and "discard" written on full-title/copyright page no other library markings; mild edgewear and toning to boards and spine binding tight endpapers faintly off-set previous owner's signature to front flyleaf small creasing to top corners toward front end otherwise text clean and unmarked with mild toning throughout. DJ has mild edgewear rubbing $3.50 price on front flap now in archival mylar wrap. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1928rif. 143179London: Chatto & Windus 1928. First edition of Huxley's classic satiric novel. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery marbled endpapers all edges gilt. In fine condition. Point Counter Point's title is a reference to the flow of arguments in a debate and a series of these exchanges tell the story. Instead of a single central plot there are a number of interlinked story lines and recurring themes as in musical "counterpoint". As a roman à clef many of the characters are based on real people most of whom Huxley knew personally such as D. H. Lawrence Katherine Mansfield Sir Oswald Mosley Nancy Cunard and John Middleton Murry and Huxley is depicted as the novel's novelist Philip Quarles. It was named by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. Chatto & Windus unknown
rif. BD150Modern Library 1928. Hbk 12mo 514pp list of Modern Library and Modern Library Giant titles at the rear McKnight Kauffer dj edgeworn with a small closed tear at the front and small losses head and tail of spine 271 titles listed on the verso otherwise bright clean and unclipped 95 cents and now in protective sleeve fine red cloth grey Rockwell Kent endpapers prev ownerÕs name discretely on front endpaper otherwise a fine clean and tight copy Modern Library, 1928 hardcover
1928rif. 314778-VE8New York : The Moder Library 1928. Hardcover. Good. Original gilt lettered cloth dust jacket 8vo.; Small tears dust jacket; edges dust jacket slightly frayed/worn. New York : The Moder Library hardcover
1928rif. 10468London; Chatto & Windus 1928. 1928. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo pp. 8 601 1. Bound in burnt orange cloth with gilt titles. Top edge orange. In the unclipped original publisher's cream dust-jacket with red borders. Cloth clean and vibrant with bright gilt. Lightly foxed to fore-edges and endpapers else contents very clean and free from inscriptions and annotations. Dust-jacket spine-sunned with miniscule chips and nicks to dust-jacket edges rubbed to edges else clean and unclipped. A Very Good copy in a Very Good dust-jacket. First edition first impression of a book widely considered to be Huxley's "most complex and ambitious work" scarce in the original 1928 dust-jacket. A modern literary classic by one of the best known authors of the inter-war years. London; Chatto & Windus, 1928. hardcover
1928rif. 140844London: Chatto & Windus 1928. First edition of Huxley's classic satiric novel. Octavo original cloth. Fine in a good dust jacket with chipping to the spine contemporary name to the front free endpaper. Point Counter Point's title is a reference to the flow of arguments in a debate and a series of these exchanges tell the story. Instead of a single central plot there are a number of interlinked story lines and recurring themes as in musical "counterpoint". As a roman à clef many of the characters are based on real people most of whom Huxley knew personally such as D. H. Lawrence Katherine Mansfield Sir Oswald Mosley Nancy Cunard and John Middleton Murry and Huxley is depicted as the novel's novelist Philip Quarles. It was named by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1928rif. 032457Chatto & Windus 1928. First Edition.1928. Hardcover lacking dust jacket. 8vo with 601 pages. The book is in good condition with some shelf wear and bumping to edges. Some foxing and toning due to age. Interior is clean and tight. "Huxley's longest novel . more complex and serious than his earlier fiction. In 1998 the Modern Library ranked Point Counter Point 44th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century." Orange cloth/Gold text. . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. 8vo. Literature. Chatto & Windus Hardcover
1928rif. C796879Chatto & Windus. Good. 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 601 pp; Limited Edition - #83 of 256. Author Signed. Book has previous owner's name dated 1929. Book is bound in green fabric spine sun darkened hinges are cracked but holding front hinge was repaired with tape lightly foxed throughout pages unmarked. . Chatto & Windus hardcover
rif. 35426London: Chatto and Windus 1928. . First edition 8vo. pp.iii601 terracotta cloth gilt top edges red; foxing to edges spine lightly rolled else clean and very good in very good complete unclipped dust-jacket which has 2.5cm closed tear to head of rear flap-fold and light creasing to extremities - now in a protective cover. London: Chatto and Windus, 1928. hardcover
1928rif. 130871London: Chatto & Windus 1928. Signed limited first edition of Huxley's classic satiric novel one of 256 numbered copies this is number 254. Octavo original cloth gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Point Counter Point's title is a reference to the flow of arguments in a debate and a series of these exchanges tell the story. Instead of a single central plot there are a number of interlinked story lines and recurring themes as in musical "counterpoint". As a roman à clef many of the characters are based on real people most of whom Huxley knew personally such as D. H. Lawrence Katherine Mansfield Sir Oswald Mosley Nancy Cunard and John Middleton Murry and Huxley is depicted as the novel's novelist Philip Quarles. It was named by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1928rif. 13668London: Chatto and Windus 1928. A first edition first printing published by Chatto and Windus in 1928. A near fine book without inscriptions in a very good unclipped wrapper with a small tape burn to the foreedge a little spotting and edgewear - a complete example and presents very well. Chatto and Windus unknown
rif. 154987Toronto: Musson Book Company 1928 1st Canadian Edition. Hardcover 601pp. Very good no dust jacket. Red cloth with black lettering. The spine is cocked and lightly faded the edges are lightly worn and there is a previous owner's inscription on the front free endpaper. "'You won't be late' There was anxiety in Marjorie Carling's voice there was something like entreaty. 'No I won't be late' said Walter unhappiily and guiltily certain that he would be. Her voice annoyed him. It drawled a little it was too refined - even in misery" - from Chapter I. Fiction Fiction. Musson Book Company Hardcover
rif. 0701108134.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1937rif. 23504London: Chatto & Windus 1937. New Impression". Hardcover. A fine copy entirely clean and unworn and with no previous owner markings of any kind in near fine jacket with slight edgewear. Bookseller sticker of MacGregor Book Mart Dundee on rear fixed endpaper. 6 601 pp. octavo original brown cloth with cover titles in white dustjacket. Huxley's longest novel an examination of conflicting worldviews social mores and intellectual ideals among a group of characters some of whom are loosely based on the prominent figures in the world of literature and the arts including DH Lawrence John Middleton Murray Augustus John et al. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1929rif. 23503Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co. 1929. Early reprint. Hardcover. Very good quite clean and unworn in worn jacket with fading to jacket spine chip at top of spine price-clipped.Small bookseller sticker of Chas. E. Lauriat Co. Boston at lower left corner of front free endpaper. 6 432 pp. octavo original purple cloth with paper spine label dustjacket. Huxley's longest novel an examination of conflicting worldviews social mores and intellectual ideals amongs a group of characters some of whom are loosely based on the prominent figures in the world of literature and the arts including DH Lawrence John Middleton Murray Augustus John et al. First edition was published the previous year. Doubleday, Doran & Co. hardcover
1928rif. 13300080Later Printing in dust jacket. The book is near fine with a bookplate on the front pastedown. The unclipped dust jacket has intermittent paper loss along the top edge and at the foot of the spine. Doubleday Doran hardcover
2004rif. Q-0099458195Dalkey Archive Press 2004-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Dalkey Archive Press paperback
