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HUXLEY, ALDOUS. LEDA. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 361 copies printed at the Marchbanks Press, signed by Huxley. Huxley's long poem on a classic theme has a wood engraved frontispiece by Eric Gill. Slight chipping of spine label, original slipcase, worn, spine of book shows darkening. Excepting these minor defects, overall a fine copy. With engravings by Eric Gill. 8vo. Bound in light gray linen with black leather spine label with title gilt.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Huxley, Aldous. Leda. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, NY, 1929.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed, limited edition of 361 copies; signed by Huxley but without a number; linen binding is browned and worn with leather spine label "Leda" still present; fraying to top and bottom of spine; text is clean, tight and attractive with great engravings; an interesting piece signed by Huxley Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Cornelius Muhilly Rare Books, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.
Huxley, Aldous. Leda. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929, 1929.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover in original paperboard slipcase. 8vo (9.5" x 6.5"), white cloth, gilt black leather title label at spine. 44 pp., three wood-engravings. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown. CONDITION: Very good, spine sunned, cover toned, text and engravings crisp and clean; good slipcase, worn and rubbed at extremities, toned, some spotting. Limited to 369 copies signed by Huxley, this copy number 98. With illustrations by Eric Gill. REFERENCES: Rowman & Littlefield 282.
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
HUXLEY, Aldous. Leda. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, New York, 1929.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited edition. Original cream linen boards with small gilt-stamped leather spine label. Engravings by Eric Gill. Spine tanned, near fine in the original unprinted cardboard slipcase, good only with edges worn and chipped. This is number 181 of 361 copies printed and Signed by Aldous Huxley. Poetry.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$393.25 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, one of 361 copies, signed by the author, unnumbered; 8vo; engravings by Eric Gill, occasional light offsetting, otherwise unmarked internally; original cream cloth boards, black leather spine label with gilt lettering, housed in the slightly worn original unprinted cardboard slipcase. Aldous Huxley was one of the most prolific 20th-century authors, primarily known for his dystopian novel Brave New World. Huxley also wrote this collection of poems which he entitled Leda. This 1929 edition was part of a limited print run of 361 copies signed by Huxley himself, and illustrated by Eric Gill by special arrangement with the Golden Cockerel Press. Gill 282.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom