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HUXLEY, Aldous.
The Most Agreeable Vice.
(Los Angeles Ward Ritchie Press, 1938). First edition. 1 of 500 copies. Printed for Jake Zeitlin to celebrate the 'opening of my new book-shop.' Inscribed by Zeitlin to Richard Marshall of the bookselling firm Bennett & Marchall.
12mo., orig. wrappers, 7, [1] p.
A fine copy of this Huxley rarity. In a slipcase (which has a piece of red morocco pasted over the original blue morocco spine. The inner flap of the slipcase has the bookplate of journalist and newspaper publisher, 'James Strohn Copley'. Los Angeles bookseller, Michael Thompson, described this as 'a notorious rarity' adding that 'many were stolen on opening-night.'
$850 CAD
HUXLEY, Aldous. The Most Agreeable Vice.
(Los Angeles Ward Ritchie Press, 1938). First edition. 1 of 500 copies. Printed for Jake Zeitlin to celebrate the 'opening of my new book-shop.' Inscribed by Zeitlin to Richard Marshall of the bookselling firm Bennett & Marchall.
12mo., orig. wrappers, 7, [1] p.
A fine copy of this Huxley rarity. In a slipcase (which has a piece of red morocco pasted over the original blue morocco spine. The inner flap of the slipcase has the bookplate of journalist and newspaper publisher, 'James Strohn Copley'. Los Angeles bookseller, Michael Thompson, described this as 'a notorious rarity' adding that 'many were stolen on opening-night.'
$850 CAD
