HUXLEY, Aldous.
Brave New World.
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they'll go through anything": First Edition of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World; finely bound
London: Chatto & Windus, 1932.
$2,800.00
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Item Number: RRB-149102
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First edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full leather by Exeter Bookbinders in a unique binding of a blue suit jacket and three titanium skull-shaped buttons to the front panel, gilt titles to the spine, "Bernard Marx" in gilt on the front panel. In near fine condition. Ownership inscription to the copyright page, "Yes!!!! 1st edition." Exeter Bookbinders bookplate to the rear pastedown.
"A nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science… easily Huxley's most popular (and many good judges continue to think his best) novel" (DNB). "After the success of his first three novels, Huxley abandoned the fictional milieu of literary London and directed his satire toward an imagined future. He admitted that the original idea of Brave New World was to challenge H.G. Wells' Utopian vision… The novel also marks Huxley's increasing disenchantment with the world, which was to result in his leaving England for California in 1937 in search of a more spiritual life. The book was immediately successful" (Parker & Kermode, 161-62). Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century.
Brave New World.
$2,800.00
In Stock
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