BRAVE NEW WORLD ALDOUS HUXLEY ANTIQUARIAN,MODERN FIRST EDITIONS

Banned by the Board of Censors of Ireland in 1932. Huxley's greatest novel, Brave New World is a shrewd guess at the likely shape of a future tyranny. His dystopia, with its test-tube babies and recreational drugs, its 'feelies' that anticipate virtual reality.... - Great item for Huxley collector's. - Brave New World: Huxley's quintessential novel of ideas. Cyril Connolly, in his reviews of 100 key books in the Modern movement, called Brave New World 'a brilliantly plausible fantasy a Utopia which is never dull, of which the horror is always credible as one's sympathies grow more involved'. - Barron described it as 'a brilliant and perceptive polemic, and the opposing side of the argument has found no advocate of comparable eloquence'. - Condition and Description of book: This is a brand new facsimile dustjacket in a superb condition. Retains price of 7s. 6d. NET to the front prelim. [It was reproduced from a First Edition - First Impression/Printing]. The dustjackets are printed on acid free paper and enclosed in durable plastic archival sleeves for longevity and future protection. The dustjacket is as true a representation as possible. - Blue boards with gilt gold lettering and decoration to the spine, which is unevenly soiled and faded in general. Frayed cloth top and bottom of the spine and on the corners. Lightly reinked in places. Dulled boards. Firmly bound to page block. Housed in the amazing dustjacket. Occasional foxing. All 306 pages are present and tightly bound. The quality of the pages is very good and you can see the weave of the paper. A beautiful representation for a book that is over 90 years old. - Housed in the amazing dustjacket. Foxing and occasional soiling throughout. All 306 pages are present and tightly bound. The quality of the pages is very good and you can see the weave of the paper. A beautiful representation for a book that is 93 years old. - Finally, there is a pasted in photocopy of a letter handwritten by Aldous Huxley, to the copyright page which covers up the 'Fourth Impression' statement. Letter says: The Athenaeum. S.W.1 - 13 . vii . 26 - I am going away for a week on Thursday afternoon. If you left the books here tomorrow, I can probably be able to sign them on Thursday morning, before I go. Otherwise I can do it when I return. - Yours, Aldous Huxley -- END - RAPID DISPATCH.