Search Results: words and their meanings by huxley aldous

Hardback. New. A private printed, limited edition facsimile of Aldous Huxley's 1940 essay on the significance and power of words.

Boydell and Brewer, 2019. Hardcover. New. 40 pages. 9.29x6.30x0.39 inches.

CA: Ward Ritchie Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket; Decorative paper over boards, new blk . cloth spine, toned cover and slightly to endsheets; owners name on fep; no . additional publication dates noted; No other marks or writing, clean tight . binding; NOT ex-library. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Has authors facsimile signature on title page ; ; 28 pages .

Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1940. Second Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Alvin Lustig (dust jacket). 8vo. Pp. 36. Light gray laid paper covered boards, titles stamped in black on the cover and spine: bookplate of Dr. Elmer Belt, edges very lightly spotted/soiled. In the Alvin Lustig illustrated dust jacket printed red and black on light gray laid paper that has three short, closed tears. Please see photos. A fresh copy. Former owner Elmer Belt was an renowned urologist perhaps best known today for his a pioneering work in sex-change surgery. Addressed to educators, an essay on the moral discipline of language use. Lustig's design evoking facets or folds was created with letterpress decorations. In Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig, authors Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger cite the "abstract configuration of shapes, referring to the inherent complexities found in systems of writing and their organizational syntax."Referenced on pp. 36 and 40 in Born… Read More

Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1940. First trade edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. First trade edition. Hardcover. First trade edition after limited signed. Octavo. 28pp. Decorated paper covered boards. Mild toning to edges of boards and pages. In matching dust jacket that has some rubbing and light soiling.

Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin, 1940. Limited Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Alvin Lustig. 8vo. Pp. 28. Lustig decorations in red on the title and p. 7. Light gray laid paper-covered boards, Lustig illustration printed in red and dark gray on the front board, titles in dark gray on the spine: boards and leaves a tad age-toned. In the Lustig illustrated dust jacket printed red and dark gray on light gray laid paper: Spine sunned, age-toned, short, closed tears at the spine head and top edge. Please see photos. Signed by Huxley beneath the colophon. One of "100 copies specially printed for Jake Zeitlin May 1940" at the Ward Ritchie Press. Addressed to educators, an essay on the moral discipline of language use. Lustig's design evoking facets or folds was created with letterpress decorations. In Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig, authors Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger cite the "stark juxtaposition of the author's signature, isolated for greater effect, and an… Read More

Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin, 1940. Signed limited edition, one of 100 numbered examples. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Aldous Huxley and additionally by the publisher, "To my constant friend James Blake from Jake." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. This is Huxley's smallest limited edition, rare and desirable. An argument as timely as it is timeless, Aldous Huxley's Words and Their Meanings argues the significance and power of words. A less well-known work originally published by The Ward Ritchie Press in 1940, Huxley's essay arrived at the end of the Great Depression and coincided with U.S. entry into WWII, a time when global relations were heavily impacted by the craft and manipulation of language. Words and Their Meanings was selected as one of the Western Books of 1940.