BRAVE NEW WORLD BY ALDOUS HUXLEY 1932 FIRST EDITION

BRAVE NEW WORLD BY ALDOUS HUXLEY 1932 FIRST EDITION

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[HUXLEY, ALDOUS]. Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932.

First edition, first print. Cloth-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (19.5cm x 12.5cm x 3cm). Pp. [6], 306. English text. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with gilt spine titles. Initial and terminal blanks plus half-title present. Printed in Great Britain by T. and A. Constable Ltd. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding tight, secure and square with the hinges and joints intact. Covers well-preserved with minor bumping to spine ends. Interior largely fresh and clean. Previous owner name neatly inked to front endpaper. Without dust jacket. Scarce.

Notes: The first British trade edition of the classic dystopian novel that posited a nearly omnipotent totalitarian state essentially built from the ground up, rather than the top-down dictatorship of 1984. 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.