POINT COUNTER POINT.
by Huxley, Aldous. (1894-1963)
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- Hardcover
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Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929. Early reprint. Hardcover. Very good, quite clean and unworn in worn jacket with fading to jacket spine, chip at top of spine, price-clipped.Small bookseller sticker of Chas. E. Lauriat Co., Boston at lower left corner of front free endpaper. [6], 432 pp., octavo, original purple cloth with paper spine label, dustjacket.
Huxley's longest novel, an examination of conflicting worldviews, social mores and intellectual ideals amongs a group of characters, some of whom are loosely based on the prominent figures in the world of literature and the arts, including DH Lawrence, John Middleton Murray, Augustus John, et al. First edition was published the previous year.
Huxley's longest novel, an examination of conflicting worldviews, social mores and intellectual ideals amongs a group of characters, some of whom are loosely based on the prominent figures in the world of literature and the arts, including DH Lawrence, John Middleton Murray, Augustus John, et al. First edition was published the previous year.
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- Chanticleer Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23503
- Title
- POINT COUNTER POINT.
- Author
- Huxley, Aldous. (1894-1963)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, quite clean and unworn in worn jacket with fading to jacket spine, chip at top of spine, price-clipped.Small booksell
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early reprint
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1929
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