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London: Chatto and Windus, 1932. First. hardcover. Very good/Very good. A very good first edition (1932 on title page and no mention of later printings on copyright page) in a very good dust jacket, with a page inscribed by Huxley inserted after the front free endpaper. Previous owner's bookplate attached to front paste-down, some damage to front paste-down paper as well as to rear paste-down paper. Housed in a custom-made collector's clamshell case.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. Signed limited first edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo, original yellow cloth, gilt topstain as issued. One of a limited edition of 324 numbered copies signed by Aldous Huxley on the limitation page, this is number 8. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1932. . Signed, limited deluxe first edition, no.135 of 324 copies produced, 8vo., pp.(iv),306, publisher’s lightly bevelled yellow buckram with blue morocco title label to spine, gilt, untrimmed paper, t.e.g.; very light sunning to spine (gilt remains bright), light crease to head of spine, very slight foxing to fore-edges, internally fresh and fine, a very good copy indeed. Signed by Aldous Huxley.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1932, 1932. FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Hardcover Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition and first printing. 306 Pp. Blue Boards With Gold Lettering On Spine. First Printing. Tight, Slight lean to spine, Clean With All Gilt Lettering And Design Still Brilliant, Very Light Rubbing At Corners, No Names Or Marks Or Book Plates, stain on first pages up to page number 7. SIGNED BY AUTHOR DIRECTLY ON FRONT PAGE. Photos available upon request. $5,500

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.. Fine with no dust jacket. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth spine with brown boards, titled in gilt, TEG. Stated first (American) edition. Limited edition # 129 of 250 copies signed by Huxley to the limitation page. A few flecks to gilt top edge, and slight wear to one corner else a square tight clean copy. In plastic protective cover. In publisher's lightly rubbed slipcase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1932. First American edition. Fine. Limited to 250 copies, signed by the author. A Fine copy with a touch of rubbing to the gilt on the spine, otherwise a brilliant copy. Only about 10% of the pages have been opened, with the vast majority of the book uncut and unread. Lacking the publisher's slipcase. A defining moment in the genre of the dystopian novel, Brave New World considers the dangers that new technologies and mass modernization pose to the very core of humanness. Rather than depicting these developments as gateways to utopia, as writers such as H.G. Wells had done, Huxley foreshadowed how radically technology and psychological conditioning could limit individual rights ranging from sexuality and reproduction to creativity to love. A "nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science" (DNB). Fine.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] ix-x [1-2] 3-147 [148-150: blank], cloth-backed boards. First edition. Boldly signed by Huxley in brown ink on the half title page. "Essay arguing that the extrapolation of 1932 Huxley was coming true faster than he had originally thought." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 269-270. Private owner's bookplate affixed to the front free endpaper. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket (priced $3.00 on the front flap) with touch of rubbing at spine ends and 9 mm closed tear at bottom edge of rear panel. A lovely copy. (#159593)