HUXLEY, Aldous. Words and Their Meanings - SIGNED copy. Jake Zeitlin, Los Angeles, 1940.

Price: US$2250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 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 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 Modern The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig by Heller and Cohen-Lustig. Dust jacket preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve. .

Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.

Huxley, Aldous. Words and Their Meanings.. Jake Zeitlin, Los Angeles, 1940.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Description: 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.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.