Brave New World. A Novel. Huxley, Aldous.

First edition, first impression, in the dust jacket. 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. Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction, p. 267; Bromer A29.3.1; Eschelbach & Shober 10; Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 120. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge blue, bottom edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Spine cocked and lightly faded, gilt bright, rubbing to extremities, fading to blue dye at top edge, foxing to edges, contents clean; unclipped jacket slightly rubbed and nicked, 1.5 cm chip to spine head with partial loss to first word, spine toned, panels bright, blue dye transfer on verso: a very good copy in like jacket.