HUXLEY, Aldous. Music at Night & Other Essays. London: Chatto and Windus. 1931. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, in the rare dust jacket. The cloth very clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the textblock edges with a few spots with a handful of spots at prelims, then usually fine. The dust jacket unclipped and complete, slightly toned to spine else fine, uncommon as such.
A series of explanatory and concise essays published a year before his magnum opus, Brave New World (1932). Subjects vary from his famous defence of D H. Lawrence to the cosmetics industry to the similarities between men and cats.
HUXLEY, Aldous. Music at Night & Other Essays. London: Chatto and Windus. 1931. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, in the rare dust jacket. The cloth very clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the textblock edges with a few spots with a handful of spots at prelims, then usually fine. The dust jacket unclipped and complete, slightly toned to spine else fine, uncommon as such.
A series of explanatory and concise essays published a year before his magnum opus, Brave New World (1932). Subjects vary from his famous defence of D H. Lawrence to the cosmetics industry to the similarities between men and cats.
