ALDOUS HUXLEY.
London: Longman's Green and Co., 1954. First edition. Writers and Their Works: No. 55; includes bibliographical checklist. Ownership stamp at head of half-title page. About very good in tanned paperwraps. Item #37945 More
London: Longman's Green and Co., 1954. First edition. Writers and Their Works: No. 55; includes bibliographical checklist. Ownership stamp at head of half-title page. About very good in tanned paperwraps. Item #37945 More
Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1916. First edition. Only 250 copies printed. His uncommon first book -- a selection of poetry published as number 7 in Blackwell's "Adventurers All" series of "young poets unknown to fame." Small 8vo cream paperwraps with lower and fore edges yapped (i.e., overhanging) and printed labels..... Item #55187 More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1929. First edition. In this book Huxley predicts that Karl Marx's Proletariat become "a bourgeoisie with oily instead of inky fingers"; compares the first motion picture in which spoken dialogue is heard, "The Jazz Singer," to a "brimming bowl of hog-wash"; and postulates that "monotheism has..... Item #49663 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1955). First U.S. edition. Small manufacturing fault on inner hinge where paper is lifed, less than a quarter inch, otherwise very good in dust jacket with a few small chips and aged on back white portion. Item #54723 More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1923. First edition. The cloth and spine label near fine with only the barest wear and light offsetting near hinges; in a near fine, unchipped dust jacket with a tiny skinned area on front cover affecting the edge of the letters "R" and "G" in title..... Item #49558 More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1923. First edition. Twenty-seven notes and essays by Huxley. The book has offset on end papers otherwise very good in dust jacket with light chipping on corners and spine ends. Item #55191 More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. First edition. "... the story of Mrs. Aldwinkle and her entourage [who]...for all their supposed sophistication...are nothing but sad and superficial individuals (wikipedia). Endpapers cracked but tight, one tiny chip to base of front hinge paper otherwise near fine; in trimmed, very good or better..... Item #55192 More