Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

HUXLEY, ALDOUS

Brave New World. Chatto & Windus, 1932

8vo, first edition, original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, DUST-JACKET, small portions of the jacket expertly restored at head and foot of the spine and at top and base of folds of the flaps

FIRST EDITION IN JACKET OF THE OTHER GREAT DYSTOPIAN NOVEL OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, in which a massively cloned population is controlled by political bosses through a combination of infant conditioning, drugs and social engineering. Unlike Orwell's later vision of governmental autocracy (in Nineteen Eighty-Four, see lot 188), Huxley's vision was of a population of slaves "who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude" (Huxley, writing to Orwell, see Letters, 604).

LITERATURE:

Connolly 75

PROVENANCE:

Francis K. Balfour, armorial bookplate

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