Huxley, Aldous

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

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Description

Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932
Paper, Ink

8vo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 in; 195 x 133 mm). Publisher's original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine with the usual fading. Blue pictorial dust-jacket with price of 7s. 6d. unclipped, extremities nicked, with light soiling to the spine panel. In a quarter morocco clamshell box.

Provenance

Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames; The Book Society (bookplate)

Literature

Connolly, 75

Catalogue Note

Huxley's fifth novel, a classic story of future dystopian society, was inspired by H.G.Wells' Utopian novels of the early 20th century, which dealt with subjects like corporate tyranny and behavioral conditioning. "[a] brilliantly plausible fantasy he has constructed from his scientific gleanings. It is a Utopia which is never dull, of which the horror is always credible."