New Bottles for New Wine by Julian Huxley.  Published by Chatto & Windus, London, UK, 1957. Very good, first edition book, in very good minus dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the FFEP. "Peter from Julian Jan 1958."  Illustrations include charts, diagrams and b&w photographs. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt stamped lettering on spine.  Spine is sunned, heaviest at tail where is almost appears to be bleached.  Front and back panels and spine have a number of scattered tiny white dots - see photos. Edges at head and tail of board spine are crimped, corners are scuffed but not rubbed through.  Upper- and lower-most board edges are scuffed. External page edges are age-toned, with a few small stains and faint beginnings of foxing on the upper edges. Text pages are age-toned else clean. Text block is solid but with a bit of mustiness. 

Dust jacket is soiled overall and with several stains. All folds are creased and scuffed. Spine and extremities are sunned. Upper edge of back jacket panel has a 7/8" closed vertical tear near the center. Edges across head and tail of jacket spine are chipped and rubbed, with loss of 1/8" across width at head of spine and 1/4" loss on the front corner; tail of spine has 1/4" loss on the back corner.  All fore-edge corners are rubbed and with loss of 1/8" or less. Reverse side of the dust jacket has an old brown paper tape reinforcement of 1 7/8" along the entire upper and lower edges. 

Not price clipped, '21s net' is showing in the lower corner of the inside front flap. 

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