Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1932. First edition, 8vo., pp.x,325, uncut, black moire cloth, gilt, with blindstamped Japanese title to front board, top edges green, pictorial title page; bookseller’s label to front paste-down endpaper, light foxing to fore-edges, slight marking to lower edges, very slight wear at tailband, very slight bruising to corners, a very good copy.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1952. First edition, small 8vo., pp.xi,235, green cloth, gilt; pictorial headpieces to chapters; light partial sunning to spine, overall a very good, fresh copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is just lightly chipped to extremities, with small closed tear to head of fold over upper joint. Now in a protective cover.

London: Reeves and Turner. Second edition, adverts dated 1890, 8vo.,pp.199,29, burgundy cloth, with paper title label to spine; ownership autograph with small inscription to front free endpaper, foxing to endpapers, lightly toned and foxed to margins with chipping to edges of text block, cracking to inner hinge with webbing visible, boards working loose to front and rear endpapers, boards rubbed to extremities with light wear to corners and to head and foot of spine, light toning and a couple of stains to spine, title label heavily rubbed and worn with a small piece missing to edge, lettering still visible, a good copy. No dust-jacket.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1933. First edition, 8vo., pp.252, mustard cloth lettered in cream, b/w frontispiece and pictorial vignette to title; foxing to prelims and edges, else very good, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is creased to headband, with two small closed tears to rear upper edge, and slight surface soil to pale paper, very good and now in a protective cover.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1994. Signed first edition, 8vo., pp.(ix),308, black hardcover lettered in silver; author’s signature to title page, a very good, clean copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine, else very good.

London/New York: Dedalus/Hippocrene Books, 1992. Facsimile reprint, 8vo., pp.536, paperback; partial sunning to wrappers, crease to spine, internally clean and very good, a good+ copy.

London: Dedalus/Hippocrene. 8vo, pp.536, paperback; light partial sunning to wrappers, light shelfwear, light marking to edges of text block, else clean and very good.

London: Boriswood Limited, 1931. First edition, 8vo., pp.271, orange cloth lettered in black, top edges black; some foxing to edges and front free endpaper, a very good, fresh copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is just lightly rubbed and chipped to upper edge.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1932. Signed, limited deluxe first edition, no.135 of 324 copies produced, 8vo., pp.(iv),306, publisher’s lightly bevelled yellow buckram with blue morocco title label to spine, gilt, untrimmed paper, t.e.g.; very light sunning to spine (gilt remains bright), light crease to head of spine, very slight foxing to fore-edges, internally fresh and fine, a very good copy indeed. Signed by Aldous Huxley.

London: Pengiun, 2008. Penguin classics Bill Amberg edition, 8vo., pp. 432, publisher’s calf, Yapp binding, bookmark tag; a fine copy that is still in its original box and sealed with clear plastic wrapping.

London: Macmillan. First edition, 8vo., pp.198, black hardcover, gilt; author’s presentation inscription to half title and title pages, slight mark to lower margin of front board, else fresh and near-fine, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.

London: Constable and Co. Ltd, 1941. First edition, small 8vo., pp.208, cerise cloth lettered in silver, b/w frontispiece by the author; neat ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, spine rolled, else clean and very good, in good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has light surface soiling to pale paper, small closed tears with creasing and slight chipping to extremities, as well as longer closed tear to head of front flap-fold, all of which have tape repairs to reverse. The dust-jacket design replicates the frontispiece image.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1853. First American edition, small 8vo., pp.329,6(publisher’s adverts), decoratively blindstamped textured cloth, gilt-lettered to spine; professionally rebacked preserving original spine and endpapers, ink ownership inscription to prelim blank, lacks half title, pencilled arithmetic to front paste-down endpaper, foxing to prelims, light wear to extremities, with rubbing to cloth, a good+ copy.

Hermann Luchterhand Verlag, 1960. First edition, 8vo., pp.736, pale grey cloth lettered in red; a very good copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is chipped with light loss to extremities, with 4cm closed tear to foot of fold over upper joint, and a couple of further small closed tears, now in a protective cover and else very good.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1936. First edition, 8vo., pp.620, beige cloth with front board and spine lettered in red, top edges red; foxing to fore-edges, otherwise fresh and very good indeed, in a fine unclipped dust-jacket.

Edinburgh: Canongate, 2007. Signed first edition, 8vo., pp.164, hardcover, white lettering; author’s signature to title page, a near-fine copy in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities, with an adhesive stain to front where a label has been removed, and small closed but creased tear to lower margin of rear.

London: Ernest Benn, 1933. First edition, 8vo., pp.288, black cloth, gilt; sunning and light roll to spine, light marking to cloth, foxing to edges, a good+ copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, with very slight rubbing and chipping to head of spine.

London: Heinemann, 1990. First edition, signed by Douglas Adams, 8vo., pp.(vii),208, blue hardcover, gilt, colour plates; author’s autographed inscription to title page, toning to edges of text-block, with foxing to top edges, a very good copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has light rubbing to extremities, and light sunning to spine.

London/Glasgow: Collins, 1939. First edition signed by author, 8vo., pp.(xi),380, blue cloth, gilt; small, pictorial bookplate dated 1939 with neat ownership inscription to front free end-paper, signed by author with a biographical notice to half title verso, sunning to lower edges of boards, light foxing to fore edge,, a very good copy with an unclipped dust-jacket which has small closed tears, light creasing and light chipping to edges, light surface soil, otherwise very good. Now in a protective cover.