Aldous Huxley | Brave New World, 1932, first edition, dust-jacket

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, half-title, original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, DUST-JACKET, bespoke dark blue morocco and marbled clamshell box, light spotting to prelims, top edge slightly dust-soiled, dust-jacket professionally restored at extremities and folds with some spotting visible on flaps, minor adhesive residue to inside of dust-jacket at head and tail of spine

FIRST EDITION IN JACKET OF ONE OF THE GREAT DYSTOPIAN NOVELS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, in which a massively cloned population is controlled through a combination of infant conditioning, drugs and social engineering. Unlike Orwell's later vision of governmental autocracy in Nineteen Eighty-Four, 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).

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