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Brave New World.
by HUXLEY, Aldous
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus,, 1932. But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin First edition, first impression, in an excellent example of the striking dust jacket, the blue colours remaining distinctly vivid. Huxley's enduring dystopian novel, which meditates on the negative consequences of unlimited happiness, turned him into the most famous British novelist of the inter-war period. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge blue, bottom edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Housed in a dark blue quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Spine with light fading and bumps to ends, internally fresh; jacket notably sharp and bright, notwithstanding a couple of spots and short closed tears, price-clipped: a near-fine copy in like jacket. Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction, p. 267; Bromer A29.3.1; Eschelbach & Shober 10; Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 120.
Synopsis
Brave New World is a novel by Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Set in the London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society. The future society is an embodiment of the ideals that form the basis of futurism. Huxley answered this book with a reassessment in an essay, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with his final work, a novel titled Island (1962), both summarized below. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World fifth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 164873
- Title
- Brave New World.
- Author
- HUXLEY, Aldous
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Chatto & Windus,
- Date Published
- 1932
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
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- Bumps
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Cloth
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