Due to the consistent rise of International shipping costs outside of North America please contact me when interested in purchasing a book. I can quote a cost. Red boards. Chatto & Windus. London. 1982. Bump to the right edge. Boards are in VG condition. Binding is solid. Light foxing to the fore-edges and endpapers. Pages are clean. DJ is complete and unclipped. DJ is unpriced, sticker residue where price would be. Light bumping to the top edges and spine ends. Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE (née Grant; 23 July 1907 – 10 January 1997) was an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. She wrote over 40 books, including her best-known lyrical books, The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard, based on her youth in a coffee farm in British Kenya. Her husband, Gervas Huxley, was a grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxley.