Adonis And The Alphabet: And Other Essays by Aldous Huxley - 1956

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, UK, 1956. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Prior seller's sticker. Early/rear pages foxed and browned, sporadic foxing to text. Page block edges very browned. Edgewear including small open tears, browning and minor rubbing to jacket. Jacket spine faded/discoloured. Size: 8vo Octavo (8 to 9 inches). Text body is clean & unmarked. Binding tight, spine fine. Dust Jacket price-clipped..

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. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Lime green cloth with blue lettering to the spine. 285 pp. This copy is VG in a VG, unclipped ( 18s net) DJ designed by John Woodcock. Exterior is bright. Lettering is as well. Only a hint of edge wear and modest crimping to spine ends. Inside has neat PO signature on FEP. Otherwise unmarked, crisp, and tightly bound. Modest/even toning to text. DJ has modest signs of wear only. Still attractive..

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