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
London: Chatto and Windus, 1939. First edition. His "Hollywood novel," being Huxley's examination of American culture. A satire awarded the 1939 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine is near fine with offsets from jacket flaps on endpapers and pastedowns; in about very..... Item #55186 More
Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1916. First edition of his first book. Plain crème-colored paper-wraps, with white labels printed in black on spine and front cover; bottom and fore edges yapped (overhanging). Only 250 copies printed. With two illustrated preliminary pages (title and frontis). The seventh in Blackwell's "Adventurers All" series..... 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, 1922. First edition of this early collection of five short stories. Small stain to page fore edges, head of spine crimped, otherwise near fine in about very good dust jacket with spine ends and corners chipped and rubbing to spine title (taking out "RT" AND "L"..... Item #55190 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