HUXLEY, Aldous.
Brave New World.
“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them": First Edition of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
London: Chatto & Windus, 1932.
$6,000.00
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Item Number: RRB-150337
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First edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Boldly signed by Aldous Huxley on a page bound-in. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, hand-made Italian marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation, rare and desirable signed.
"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.
$6,000.00
Out of Stock
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