Huxley Robert Ed (24 results)

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HARDCOVER. Condition: Used; Very Good. Used; Very Good. 36-C-11 Thames and Hudson 2007 Hardcover. Text is clean and unmarked. Jacket has light wear. Book Condition; Very Good Jacket Condition; Very Good . 2007. HARDCOVER.

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Hard Back. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. A very lightly used and well looked after book inside a very lightly bumped DJ. This book tells the story of the development of ideas about natural history as seen through the lives, observations and discoveries of nearly forty great naturalists, from Classical times to the end of the 19th century. From such giants as Aristotle, Linnaeus and Darwin to less lauded but nonetheless important figures as Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Nicolas Steno and Mary Anning. Beautifully illustrated throughout.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Stated first edition. Mild foxing to top edge. Light rubbing and edge wear to jacket. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. A sound and handsome copy, still very neat. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hard covers, dust jacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st edition. A sketchy account of the components of Sir Hans Sloane's herbarium, by multiple authors, credited only on the rear jacket flap. Anyone intending to study this rather complicated herbarium should first read this book. Several spelling errors have been corrected or marked in the text (presumably by Charles Nelson, who rarely annotated his own books), suggesting a degree of irritation. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Magazine. Illustrated in black and white. Pictorial wrappers. Lightly sunned spine with a small tear at the crown, moderate rubbing on rear wrap, very good. Literary magazine that includes works by Aldous Huxley, Wallace Stegner, John Updike, William Stafford, Lew Welch, Mordecai Gorelik, Alex Karmel, Alan Friedman, Robert Peterson, Joanne de Longchamps, Donald Hall, Harold Witt, Stanley Kiesel, Leonard Wolf, Ben Shahn, and Ed Bunker.…

4to. 304pp. Beautifully illus in colour, 198 illus. Very nice copy in dw.

4to, 304pp. Original cloth in pictorial dustwrapper. Guide to the lives, observations and discoveies of the world's greatest naturalists ,from Aristotle to Asa Grey, featuring full-colour and b/w reproductions contemporary to the lives of each naturalist. A near-fine copy. First edition.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Dust jacket age-toned, lightly spotted, creased at top-edge, several small splits along bottom edge, wrapped in removable archival film; Orange cloth boards slightly rubbed on corners, small bump to bottom edge of front board; Pages age-toned, lightly spotted on edges and endpapers/prelims, rough-cut edges; Binding tight. This is the new edition with and introduction by Aldous Huxley. Volume 1 of 2. ; 5.5 x 8.5"; 427 pages.…

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) with d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

imperial octavo hardcover ( Near Fine) in d/w (Near Fine); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

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Or.bds. Dustjacket. 304pp. Profusely illustrated, mostly in colour. Fine. 1st ed. The story of the lives of nearly 40 great naturalists from classical times to the end of the 19th century.

Two-volume set, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front boards, extensive blue decorative rule to spine & front boards, frontispiece, xviii + 498pp (vol.1, )vii + 431pp (Vol.2), illus + large folding map to rear of each volume, VG- (browning & fading to spines, light bruising & fraying to spine extrems, splits to cloth of spine sides, some browning to page edges, owner's name & date in ink to fep, moderate foxing to prelims & terminal). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 429 p. diagrs., facsim., tables. 25 cm. LCCN 58009397 LC GV53 .L3 Dewey 790.0973 OCLC 477253 brown cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: "Leisure" / Oxford English Dictionary -- "Leisure" / Encyclopedia of the social sciences -- The pattern of leisure in contemporary American culture / Margaret Mead -- Accidie / Aldous Huxley -- The sedentary society / Herbert Collins -- How to make a civilization / Clive Bell -- Work and leisure under industrialism / Clement Greenberg -- The spread of reading / Richard D. Altick -- Farm and countryside / Foster Rhea Dulles -- Explanation of play / Jean Piaget -- The play element in contemporary civilization / Johan Huizinga -- The emergence of fun morality / Martha Wolfenstein -- In praise of idleness / Bertrand Russell -- The right to be lazy / Paul Lafargue -- The great emptiness / Robert MacIver -- Time and silence / Max Picard -- The ideology of privacy and reserve / Paul Halmos -- The pathology of boredom / Woodburn Heron -- The workweek in American industry 1850-1956 / Joseph S. Zeisel -- The changing length of working life / Seymour L. Wolfbein -- $30 billion for fun / editors of Fortune -- The amount and uses of leisure / George Lundberg, Mirra Komarovsky, and Mary Alice McInerny -- Social class differences in the uses of leisure / R. Clyde White -- Leisure and occupational prestige / Alfred C. Clarke -- Industrial workers' worlds / Robert Dubin -- Society: status without substance / E. Franklin Frazier -- Tuxedo park, black tie / Cleveland Amory -- American sports, play and display / Gregory P. Stone -- Money, muscles, and myths / Roger Kahn -- What's happening to hobbies? / Eric Larrabee -- The do-it-yourself market / U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- Vacations / "a cynic [Leslie Stephen] -- Camping in the wilderness / Gregory P. Stone and Marvin J. Taves -- Notes on a natural history of fads / Rolf Meyersohn and Elihu Katz -- Voluntary association memberships of American adults / Charles R. Wright and Herbert H. Hyman -- The motivational pattern of drinking / John W. Riley, Jr., Charles F. Marden, and Marcia Lifshitz -- Sex as play / Nelson N. Foote -- Leisure as contemplation / Joseph Pieper -- Time on our hands / Russell Lynes -- Less work, less leisure / Harvey Swados -- Work and leisure in post-industrial society / David Riesman -- Comprehensive bibliography on leisure / Rolf Meyersohn ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A two-volume set of Benjamin Haydon's autobiography and memoirs, with an introduction by Aldous Huxley. A two-volume set in the publisher's original cloth bindings. Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846) was a British artist who specialised in historical paintings, although he also painted portraits. In 1839, Haydon drew upon his extensive journals to write an autobiography. He had reached the year 1820 before he took his life. This autobiography was edited by Tom Taylor, with additional material from his diaries, and was first published in three volumes in 1853. This edition, complete in two volumes, was reprinted from the 1853 edition. Illustrated throughout. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally smart, though slightly faded to the spines and a little bumped to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. G. H. Harlow; G. M. Zornlin; et al. (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 122, [2] pp., 8vo, illustrated paper-covered boards, dustjacket. With an impressive roster of contributors, both literary and artistic. The latter includes engravings and drawings by Paul Nash, Wyndham Lewis, David Jones, E. McKnight Kauffer, Blair Hughes-Stanton and E. Gordon Craig. Overall, a very good, well-preserved copy; quarter-inch of light damage at head of backstrip, offsetting to front and rear flyleaves, contents otherwise fine. Dustjacket somewhat age-toned, lightly soiled and missing thumbnail-size piece from front panel and the head of the lightly worn spine panel.…

Half leather. 2nd Edition. 2nd ed., two volumes, original cloth boards with gilt titles, profusely illustrated with plates and maps, frontis portraits of Scott and Wilson. Vol. I: pp xxvi, 633, large folding map at end. Vol. II: pp xiv, 534, large folding map at end. Second edition, published the same year as the first. Complete. Some very light scattered foxing, otherwise, contents and images clean. Bound in half leather, ornately decorated gilt spines, top edges gilt, other edges uncut. Binding by Cottage Bindery, Bath with binder's stamp to rear paste-down first volume. Very good condition. Fine binding of the two volume second edition set printed same year as the first. The ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition of 1910-1913. Includes Captain Robert Falcon Scott's journals, and reports from various members of the expedition. Profusely illustrated: "photogravure frontispieces, 6 original sketches in photogravure by Dr Wilson, 18 coloured plates (16 from drawings by Dr Wilson), 260 full-page and smaller illustrations. panoramas and maps". Dr. E.A.Wilson, Herbert G. Ponting (Illus.) (illustrator).…