Search Results: adonis and the alphabet by aldous huxley

Chatto & Windus, 1956. Hardcover. Good. 1956. No Edition Remarks. 285 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Chatto & Windus, 1956. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1956. First Edition. 285 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout, moderate at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Ex Libris plate to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Chatto & Windus, 1956. Hardcover. Good. 1956. Second Impression. 285 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Chatto & Windus,, 1956 Chatto & Windus, 1956 hardback 2nd impression No Jacket. lime green boards, with blue titles to spine, 285 pages, has library stamp and label remnants to bottom spine but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

Chatto and Windus Ltd , 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Small inscription written by the previous owner. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 285 pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and minor marks. Internally there are marks and on the last blank page there are scribble marks. The text remains legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Chatto & Windus, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1st edition. Boards are edge worn, shelf rubbed, cocked and marked. Tanning. Minor marks. it is in good condition, excellent binding. Mk.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London, Chatto & Windus, 1956 . 285pp. 8vo. Original cloth.. Light offsetting to endpapers, otherwise a very good copy. . First edition.

Chatto & Windus, 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. London, Chatto & Windus, 1956. 1st edition. 13 x 20 cm, 285 pp. Good jacket, unclipped, some chips to the edges, a few light spots. Bright green cloth boards, some spots to the front edge, pages clean and bright. The Book Cellar & Henschel.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1956. Second Impression. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. John Woodcock (jacket design). 8vo. Pp. 285. Green cloth, titles stamped in blue on the spine, edges trimmed. In the color illustrated dust jacket, unclipped (18/s net). London bookseller tag and very distinctive owner ink signature dated 1958 on endpaper. Edges and jacket faintly age toned. Second printing of this essay collection in the John Woodcock-illustrated dust jacket, well preserved. Huxley presents free-ranging reflections ranging from the history of tomorrow to Gesualdo's late madrigals. Dust jacket is now preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.

Chatto & Windus, London, 1956. 285 pp, top edge tinted, edges lightly foxed, d/j spine browned, else fine copy in very good, price-clipped d/j.. First edition.

chatto & windus london 1956. first edition 285pp VG+ (lime cloth,sl.soiled,dealer's stamp to ffep,edges sl.foxed) lacks d/w

London, Chatto & Windus, 1956 . 285pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper. Light offsetting to endpapers, otherwise a very good copy. . First edition.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1956. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 285pp. Octavo [20 cm] Bright chartreuse cloth over boards with the title and decorative borders stamped in blue on the backstrip. Publisher's blue topstain. The spine ends are a bit bruised. In the dust jacket, with mild toning (most visible on the rear panel and the inside flaps) and several small closed and open tears along the bottom edge. Not price-clipped. A book of essays with a diversity of subjects, such as the sin of the intellect, the confusion of knowledge with understanding, and the difficult art of being charitable. In Salt Lake City, he muses on the relation between music and popular taste ("Faith, Taste and History").

Chatto & Windus,, 1956. 8vo., 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.

LONDON: CHATTO & WINDUS. Second Impression. Hard cover with dust jacket. Wear and small tears/pieces missing on DJ edges. Has been price clipped. Green boards. Moderate slant to board spine. Top edges of pages are stained blue(part of the design). Tanned and slightly foxed pages. Overall clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Location: HP1 . Good. Hardcover. Second Impression. 1956.

DW. Price clipped. Contemporary birthday inscription on fep. Book tight and clean. DW chipped and rubbed.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good. John Woodcock (jacket design). 8vo. Pp. 285. Green cloth, titles stamped in blue on the spine, edges trimmed, top edge dyed gray. In the color illustrated dust jacket, flap price of 18/s net intact. Light spots on spine. Jacket lightly soiled, spine sunned, and with light edge-wear. A bright copy. Huxley presents free-ranging reflections, from the history of tomorrow to Gesualdo's late madrigals. The celebrated plaid-overlay jacket design by John Woodcock presents nicely. Dust jacket preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Green and white dw/dj with four colour-block design to upper wrap and publisher's advert to rear wrap and slightly darkened spine/ backstrip.Minimal shelf-wear but some light creasing to top edges with closed tears and rubbing to top two corners and head of spine/backstrip. Rear wrap slightly aged/grubbed.Top edge coloured green,fore-edge slightly aged and bottom edge partially untrimmed; contents generally bright,tight and clean.Slightly grubbed,publisher's original,apple-green cloth boards with stamped,blue ink letters to spine/backstrip and plain white endpaperss with off-set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps.Described hard but fair - better than it reads!! UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,10-285pp includes 17 essays and a 12pp appendix. This new book of essays (then 1956) demonstrates afresh the unorthodox,wide-ranging quality… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1956. Second Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 285 pages; 21 cm. Subjects; English essays 20th century. English literature. Fiction. Censorship and spoken literature.

London : Chatto and Windus, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 285p. ; 20cm. Subjects: English essays, 20th century. English literature.