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Brave New World
by Huxley, Aldous
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- first
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First Edition. First edition, first printing. [vi], 306, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt, blue topstain. Near Fine with typical slight toning to spine, bookplate on paste down, in a Very Good unsophisticated dust jacket, light pink staining to front panel title lettering, spine panel toned, slightly chipped extremities with a triangular chip to the fore edge of the rear panel, unclipped (7s 6d).
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. Perennially relevant. As Helmholtz Watson says in the book, "Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.".
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
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140945945
- Title
- Brave New World
- Author
- Huxley, Aldous
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- dystopia, dystopian, novel, sci-fi, future, british
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Portland, Oregon
About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Fore Edge
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- Jacket
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 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...
- Bookplate
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