Proper Studies

London: C. Bathurst . . . [and 35 Others], 1781. First separate edition. Joints are starting or weak, leather is dry, and bumping and chipping to corners and spine, else very good.. First separate edition. Courtney calls Lives of the Poets Johnson's "second great work," simple in style and expression but which "appealed to every man of… Read more about this item

Chatto & Windus, 1949. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1949. Uniform edition . 299 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Ex-library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Binding remains firm.Pages are moderately tanned. Boards have heavy edge-wear with substantial bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Heavy staining… Read more about this item

Chatto & Windus, 1939. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1939. Reprinted. 299 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front pastedown, endpaper and half-title page. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

Chatto & Windus,, 1927. 8vo., First Edition, title and a few leaves very lightly spotted; green cloth, gilt back, green top, backstrip lightly sunned (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, clean copy. With the trade ticket of Mitchell of Buenos Aires on front paste-down.

Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No DJ. Sunned spine, stains on front board, otherwise minimal wear; binding has a separation gap and feels loose; mildly evenly yellowed; the essay on Education is underlined, the remaining ten essays are unmarked. POS on FFEP ex-libris Roger Perrineau du Lycee Descartes a Tours 1942.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1927. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. xix, 299pp. Green cloth with gilt spine. Foredge trifle foxed with slight foxing on some pages, light bumping at the foot of the spine, near fine in a very good or better dust jacket with tiny chips and tears, and a modestly toned spine. … Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1927. First trade edition. xix, [1], 299, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth. Fine in almost fine tan dust jacket. Bookpolate of Joan Whitney. First trade edition. xix, [1], 299, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Essays on the likes of "The Idea of Equality", "Varieties of Inteligence", "Education", etc.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1927. First Edition, 1/260 Copies. First edition, 1/260 copies. This copy lacking the limited edition page with the author's signature. Measuring approximately 8.5" x 5.75" with 299 numbered pages. This book is in good minus condition. Moderate bumping to both ends of spine. Heavy sunning to spine and both boards. Minor foxing to… Read more about this item

London: Chatto and Windus, 1957. Hardcover. 299p., nice copy of this less-common title; see our "series" description below. Condition is excellent, there's a tiny dent to tail rim, while its dust jacket is edgeworn with numerous small tears and a verso tape strengthener to a complicated small tear at the heel. Number 20 in the Collected Works series; small… Read more about this item

London, Chatto & Windus, 1927-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 2.2843 in x 18.7817 in x 12.1827 in. A clean, tight copy. Light wear to the edges. Previous owner signature. Some stamps. Clothbound in green with the title in gold gilt to the spine.

Proper Studies by Aldous Huxley stated first edition hardcover Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company 1928 Condition: Good+ general wear

Chatto & Windus, 1957. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1957. Reprinted. 299 pages. Red dust jacket over green cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Light creasing to gutter. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Minor tanning to spine and edges. Bleaching spots overall. Textblock is shaky. Clipped… Read more about this item

Chatto & Windus , 1927 . First edition in unclipped jacket. Diagonal closed tear at very top of front panel. Short tear backed with tape at bottom of fold of front cover/spine. Some loss to jacket at extremities of spine. Fore-edge & prelims foxed. At least one marginal pencil mark in text pages.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1928. Dust jacket in three pieces--kept together in mylar dust jacket protector.. First Edition in America. Original Cloth. Very Good/Poor.

Shohakusha, Tokyo, 1959. Hardcover. Good. Published by arrangement with Chatto & Windus. Edited with notes by T. Nishihara. Text in English. 156 pages. Light general edgewear, and scraping to rear cover. Binding sound. Inscription at FFEP in English and Japanese, and marginal notes in Japanese through first twenty pages. Pages toned, otherwise unmarked through the rest of the… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1927. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. xix, 299 pp. Top of spine crushed, else very good.

Chatto & Windus, 1927-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0.9000 7.4000 4.8000. Signed by the author, copy #260 of 260 in a special edition. Cover shows minor wear and fading, edgewear. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

London, Chatto & Windus, 1927.. xx+299pp. 8vo. Original cloth, sunned on spine, in dustwrapper, darkened on backstrip and chipped at head. Foxing on half-title and title page. A very good copy.. First Edition.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company. As New. 1928. Hardcover. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW, THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE, CLEAN, UNMARKED, AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - Correspond… Read more about this item