HUXLEY, Aldous. Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus. 1932. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s dark blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Leslie Holland. A very good copy. The backstrip a touch mottled, corners and tips gently pushed and rubbed, but cleaner than usual, the binding tight and square. The contents clean and fine throughout but for some mild patchy toning to endpapers. Without inscriptions or stamps. The supplied dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net) and very bright indeed, in entirely original condition. With a faint water stain to the white segments of the spine, lessened by the iconic modernist design, and with minimal nicks and mild rubbing to extremities. A fantastic example.
A high point of twentieth century literature and indeed in modern first edition collecting. Like Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the pair are emblematic of the entire dystopian genre and it is perhaps Huxley’s vision—painless, amusement-sodden, subtle—of a future of hell that seems more viable today. An excellent copy.
HUXLEY, Aldous. Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus. 1932. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s dark blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Leslie Holland. A very good copy. The backstrip a touch mottled, corners and tips gently pushed and rubbed, but cleaner than usual, the binding tight and square. The contents clean and fine throughout but for some mild patchy toning to endpapers. Without inscriptions or stamps. The supplied dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net) and very bright indeed, in entirely original condition. With a faint water stain to the white segments of the spine, lessened by the iconic modernist design, and with minimal nicks and mild rubbing to extremities. A fantastic example.
A high point of twentieth century literature and indeed in modern first edition collecting. Like Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the pair are emblematic of the entire dystopian genre and it is perhaps Huxley’s vision—painless, amusement-sodden, subtle—of a future of hell that seems more viable today. An excellent copy.
