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HUXLEY, ALDOUS Brave New World. Chatto & Windus, 1932 4to, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, NO. 25 OF 324 SIGNED COPIES, half-title, later goatskin binding by Roger Powell, covers and spine in ochre with vertical fillets in blood-red and gilt, spine lettered in gilt, matching endpapers with diffusing lines in green and gilt, binder's stamped monogram on lower paste-down, top-edge gilt, the other edges untrimmed, preserved in matching folding green cloth folding box with morocco spine THE LIMITED SIGNED ISSUE OF HUXLEY'S GREAT DYSTOPIAN NOVEL, IN A VERY HANDSOME AND STRIKING BINDING BY THE CELEBRATED BINDER ROGER POWELL (1896-1990). LITERATURE: Connolly 75 Please see Shipping Calculator Link: Click Here

huxley, brave new world, 1932

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From the Library of Christian Heuer HUXLEY, ALDOUS Brave New World. Chatto & Windus, 1932 8vo, FIRST EDITION, half-title, original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, DUST-JACKET, minor chipping to dust-jacket at extremities FIRST EDITION IN JACKET OF ONE OF THE 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 131), 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 Please see shipping calculator link: click here.

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Huxley, Aldous Leda. Autograph manuscript, signed. [1920] Autograph manuscript signed of "Leda." 24 pp. including autograph title-leaf, on ruled paper, rectos only (240 x 191 mm), bound with brass clasps; title-leaf with some foxing, paper loss at lower left corner of final leaf (with no loss of text) repaired with cellotape and paper. [With]: Leda. London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. 8vo (178 x 223 mm, uncut and largely unopened). Frontispiece after Michaelangelo with tissue guard, copy 72 out of 150 numbered copies, signed by Huxley below the limitation statement; edges foxed. Quarter yellow cloth, drab boards, spine with printed label; endpapers browned. [With]: Autograph postcard signed (140 x 90 mm) on Huxley's letterhead, postcard with photographic portrait of Huxley signed (135 x 80 mm), autograph note (175 x 114 mm), [and] ephemera. All housed in a blue quarter morocco slipcase with folding chemises. A fine archive, including the manuscript of the long poem "Leda," and the limited edition of the book, signed by Huxley, which includes other poems. It appears the manuscript was bought from Huxley by a Mr. Eddie Auerbach, proprietor of the Auerbach Bathrobe Company of New York City, in 1936. Given that Huxley's home later burned down in 1961, taking with it his entire library and archive of manuscripts and letters, the survival of this manuscript is remarkable. At the time of the fire, Huxley managed only to save Island, his work in progress; had this manuscript of "Leda" not been bought by Auerbach, it would have likely been destroyed, as well. Rare. Included with the manuscript and printed edition is an autograph postcard and an autograph note with envelope from Huxley to Auerbach, spring 1936. There is also a photographic portrait postcard of Huxley signed, a leaf inscribed "With the author's good wishes. Aldous Huxley," and a typed list of variations in the printed text when compared with the manuscript. PROVENANCE Manuscript: Eddie Auerbach (ancillary material). Book: Dennis Wheatley (bookplate to pastedown)

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huxley, aldous | rare autograph manuscript of "leda" and signed material

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Aldous Huxley The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems. Oxford: [B.H. Blackwell, 1918] FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO KATHERINE MANSFIELD, 8vo, re-bound in quarter cloth and paper boards, various internal repairs Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "K[atherine]. M[ansfield]. from A[ldous].L[eonard].H[uxley]. Sept.'18". Mansfield and Huxley had a difficult relationship. The fact that she had caricatured him as the effeminate Eddie Warren in "Bliss" (one of her best stories, published the previous month in The English Review) may explain the less than effusive inscription. She had married John Middleton Murry earlier in the year and Huxley would caricature him as the hypocritical Burlap in Point Counter Point (1928). Provenance: Mary Hutchinson (with whom Huxley and his wife Maria were romantically entangled). There has only been one inscribed copy of this title at auction since 1975. A good copy only, but a great association.

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aldous huxley | the defeat of youth and other poems, oxford, [1918], first edition, inscribed to katherine mansfield

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HUXLEY, ALDOUS Brave New World. London: Chatto and Windus, 1932 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine title in illustrated dust jacket. Cloth rubbed along edges and spine, jacket splits repaired and recolored. First edition signed by Huxley on title. An uncommon book to find signed or inscribed in the trade issue. One of the 20th century's great novels, this dystopian vision is on the ALA's list of works that most frequently undergo attempted "challenges" and bans in the United States. REFERENCES: Connolly 75; Modern Library 100

huxley, aldous | brave new world. london: chatto and windus, 1932

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Aldous, Huxley Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932 8vo. Half-title, uncut, "MSU" stamp to front free endpaper. Publisher's yellow cloth, morocco label to spine, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt; spine and top edge of upper cover a little toned. The signed limited edition, numbered 94 of 324, of this pinnacle of dystopian literature. Brave New World imagines a massively cloned population being 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). The UK edition was split into signed and trade issues, published simultaneously on 2 February, following publication of the signed issue of the US edition on 21 January, and preceding the US trade issue on 4 February. REFERENCE: Connolly 75; Eschelbach and Shober 10

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huxley, aldous | brave new world, signed limited edition

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). LITERATURE: Connolly 75

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aldous huxley | brave new world, 1932, first edition, dust-jacket

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 Please see Shipping Calculator Link: Click Here

Fine Autograph Letters and Manuscripts from a Distinguished Private Collection: Part II | Music, Americana, English and Continental Literature

1 1/2 pages, 8vo (110 x 190 mm). on the headed notepaper of “La Gorguette, Sanary sur mer”, France, October 14, 1932.

autograph letter signed, to signorina flazbaum (?), discussing which of his literary works are published in italian translation, referring her to his agent pinker, in london, thanking her for her invitation to milan, but stating that usually he goes to tuscany and not to lombardy

manning, frederick, aldous huxley and lord byron.

Brave New World. A Novel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932

Brave New World. A Novel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932 In 8s (7 3/8  x 4 3/4  in.; 188 x 122 mm). Slight dampstain at extreme upper edge of front endpaper. Pictorial dust jacket; light fraying at ends of spine.

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Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932

Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932 In 8s (9 x 6 in.; 230 x 148 mm). Original bright yellow buckram, blue morocco gilt spine label, top edge gilt. 

The Library of an English Bibliophile Part VII

8vo (225 x 150mm.), FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S SECOND BOOK, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO T.S. ELIOT ("To T.S. Eliot with best wishes | from | Aldous Huxley | Xmas 1917") on reverse of upper wrapper, one of about fifty copies, original printed wrappers, collector's chemise and slipcase, some minor spotting and browning, some soiling to slipcase

jonah. oxford: holywell press, 1917

English Literature, History, Children’s Books & Illustrations

large 8vo, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 108 OF 324 SIGNED COPIES, half-title, original yellow cloth, green morocco label lettered in gilt on spine, top edge gilt, some browning to endpapers, some light soiling to spine

brave new world. chatto & windus, 1932

first edition, 8vo, original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, dust-jacket, slightly bumped at extremities, very slight spotting to dust-jacket and slightly frayed at head and foot of dust-jacket

brave new world. london: chatto & windus, 1932

first edition of the author's first novel, 8vo, original yellow cloth with paper lettering piece on spine lettered in green, additional label at rear, dust-jacket, slightly soiled dust-jacket frayed at extremities with minor loss

crome yellow. london: chatto & windus, 1921

first edition of the author's first book, 8vo, decorated borders to reverse of half-title and title-page, 1 page of publisher's advertisments at end, original wrappers, paper lettering pieces to spine and upper cover printed in black, collector's brown cloth folding box, slight spotting, minor short tears to extremities of slightly soiled wrappers, tear to foot of spine, some splitting to box

the burning wheel. oxford: b.h. blackwell, 1916

first edition, number 298 of 324 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original yellow buckram, blue morocco lettering piece lettered in gilt on spine, top edge gilt, minor abrasion to front free endpaper

brave world world. london: chatto & windus, 1932

8vo, first edition, number 229 of 324 copies signed by the author, original yellow buckram, blue morocco lettering piece lettered in gilt on spine, unopened, top edge gilt, red soiling to upper cover

brave new world. chatto & windus, 1932

Brave New World. 1932, number 67 of 324 copies; Proper Studies. 1927, number 207 of 260 copies, binding worn with minor loss and tears to spine; Do What You Will. 1929, number 124 of 260 copies; Texts & Pretexts. 1932, number 138 of 214 copies; all 8vo, all signed by the author, original bindings, some browning, bindings worn and soiled (4)

four limited signed editions. chatto and windus, 1927-1932

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Antic Hay – Point Counter Point- Point Counter Point Signed Limited. London: Jonathan Cape, 1923–1928-1928

Antic Hay – Point Counter Point- Point Counter Point Signed Limited. London: Jonathan Cape, 1923–1928-1928 Together 3 volumes. Each 8vo (8 x 5 1/2 in.; 200 x 130 mm).  [Antic Hay] Publisher's tan cloth with printed spine labels in red-titled white dust jacket; minor loss at top of jacket spine panel above rule, tiny chips at top corners. — [Point Counter Point]. Publisher's gilt-titled red cloth in printed white dust-jacket, front and spine panels with minor dust-soiling. —  [Point Counter Point].  Publisher's gilt-titled green buckram, top edge gilt,  in green half-morocco slipcase with chemise. Number 145 of 256 copies signed by Huxley. Crosby-Gaige bookplate on paste-down.

L12408

8vo, first English edition, ordinary issue, preliminary blank, full navy blue morocco gilt signed by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with horizontal rules in blind and title in gilt points across covers and spine, top edge gilt, sections of original dust-jacket preserved at end, collector's blue morocco slipcase

brave new world. chatto and windus, 1932

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8vo, first edition, no. 6 of 324 special copies signed by the author, hand-made paper, original yellow cloth, grey lable on spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, the others uncut, minor soiling to covers

8vo, first edition, no. 6 of 324 special copies signed by the author, hand-made paper, original yellow cloth, grey lable on spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, the others uncut, minor soiling to covers The limited edition issue of the author's great dystopian work, the first novel to deal with human cloning.

Huxley, Aldous. A collection of 24 volumes, including:

Huxley, Aldous. A collection of 24 volumes, including: Antic Hay. 1924, third impression; Essays Old and New. 1926, first edition, number 70 of 650 copies, signed by the author; Point Counter Point. 1928, first edition; Brief Candles. 1930, first trade edition; Vulgarity in Literature. 1930, first edition; The Cicadas and other poems. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1931, first edition, dust-jacket, ownership stamp on preliminary blank; Texts & Pretexts. 1932, first edition, dust-jacket; Brave New World. 1932, first edition; Eyeless in Gaza. 1936, first edition, dust-jacket, preliminary blank with owner's name excised, preliminary and final leaves slightly spotted, dust-jacket with some loss; The Olive Tree. 1936, first edition, dust-jacket; Ends and Means. 1937, first edition, dust-jacket; After Many a Summer. 1939, first edition, dust-jacket; Time Must Have a Stop. 1945, first english edition, dust-jacket, price clipped; Science, Liberty and Peace. 1947, first english edition, dust-jacket, library bookplate, price clipped; The Giaconda Smile. 1948, dust-jacket; Mortal Coils. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1948, dust-jacket; Ape and Essence. 1949, first english edition, dust-jacket; Themes and Variations. 1950, first edition, dust-jacket; The Genius and the Goddess. 1955, first edition, dust-jacket; Island. 1962, first edition, dust-jacket, price clipped; all: Chatto & Windus, 8vo, original bindings, except where noted, occasional light spotting, dust-jackets with some soiling and wear (some with loss); together with 4 others (24)

huxley, aldous. a collection of 24 volumes, including:

Morrell, Lady Ottoline. Visitors' book presented by her to Mr and Mrs Aldous Huxley

Morrell, Lady Ottoline. Visitors' book presented by her to Mr and Mrs Aldous Huxley being what was originally a bound blank volume presented by Lady Ottoline Morrell to "Aldous and Maria [Huxley] from their devoted friend OM" in 1931, with a ten-line autograph poetic inscription by her on the subject of Love (apparently a quotation from "Conrad") on the first recto leaf; also containing several dozen signatures of visitors and friends from October 1930 to 1936, including Rosalind and Leonard Huxley, Edward Sackville-West, Clive and Quentin Bell, Frieda Lawrence, Naomi Mitchison, Bryan and Diana Guinness, Paul Valery, Sybil Colefax, Marjorie Worthington, and many others 12 pages, 8vo, on thick beige paper, numerous blanks, contemporary vellum, 1930-1936-and one other, slight staining, boards warped

morrell, lady ottoline. visitors' book presented by her to mr and mrs aldous huxley

huxley, aldous. brave new world. chatto & windus, 1932, 8vo, first edition, original...

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Jaune de crome. Traduit par Julia Bastin. Paris, La Renaissance du Livre, 1928. In-8. Demi-maroquin vert à coins, dos à nerfs, tête dorée, couverture et dos.

Jaune de crome. Traduit par Julia Bastin. Paris, La Renaissance du Livre, 1928. In-8. Demi-maroquin vert à coins, dos à nerfs, tête dorée, couverture et dos. Contre-point. Traduit de l’anglais par Jules Castier. Préface de André Maurois. Paris, Plon, 1930. 2 volumes in-8. Même reliure.Exemplaire sur Alfa.Deux ou trois grâces. Suivi de semaine anglais - Le Monocle - La bonne marraine. Traduit de l’anglais par Jules Castier. Préface de Edmond Jaloux. Paris, Stock, 1931. In-8. Même reliure.Exemplaires sur alfa satiné d’Outhenin Chalandre, n° 390.Tour du monde d’un sceptique. Traduit par Fernande Dauriac. Paris, Plon - Choses vues,1932. In-8. Même reliure. Un des 40 exemplaires de tête sur Lafuma Voiron, n° 19.Cercle vicieux (Antic Hay). Traduit de l’anglais par René Legrand. Introduction de Jean Fayard. Paris, Editions du Siècle "Maîtres étrangers",1932. In-8. Même reliure. Un des 50 exemplaires sur Alfa, n° 4.Le petit Mexicain. Traduit de l’anglais par Jules Castier. Paris, Stock, 1933. In-8. Même reliure. Un des 22 exemplaires de tête sur pur fil du Marais, n° 18. [on joint :]Lehmann, Rosamond. Poussière (Dusty answer). Traduit de l’anglais par Jean Talva. Paris, Plon - Feux-croises, 1929. Même reliure que les précédents. édition originale. Exemplaire de tête sur pur fil Lafuma Voiron, n° XXXI.

ensemble de 6 ouvrages.

Fine Books and Manuscripts Including Americana

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.  

The Library of an English Bibliophile, Part VI

8vo (189 x 123mm.), original light blue cloth lettered in gilt, DUST-JACKET, collector's quarter blue morocco folding box, neat restoration at head of spine of jacket

commenting on her essay with a characteristic exposition of philosophical thinking, about ``the crust of custom & belief'' which is ``impervious to Reality'', with references to the saying of a Chinese Zen master (``Do not hunt after the Truth; merely cease to cherish opinions'') and the work of Krishnamurti (who has ``analysed our fatal obsession with words & second-hand notions in the most penetrating way''), concluding with a discussion of how children can be educated in understanding the ``underlying'' or ``wordless reality'' through ``cultural conditioning'' which enables us to retain ``our full, self-transcending humanity'', 2 pages, 4to, Los Angeles, 14 August 1962, slightly weak at folds This lot contains 1 item(s).

# - huxley, aldous. autograph letter signed (``aldous huxley''), to mrs armitage

8vo, FIRST EDITION, original blue cloth, top edge blue, DUST-JACKET, tiny nicks to jacket OTHERWISE A FINE COPY This lot contains 1 item(s).

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