Words and Their Meanings.
by Huxley, Aldous
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 133128
- Title
- Words and Their Meanings.
- Author
- Huxley, Aldous
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jake Zeitlin
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- Aldous Huxley Signed First Edition, Words and Their Meanings First Edition
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