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BRAVE NEW WORLD
by HUXLEY, Aldous:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Chatto and Windus. 1932. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Bound by Stephen Conway in full blue leather with a pyramid design inlaid in marbled blue leather circles to the upper board, titles in gilt to the upper board and spine. Hand-sewn endbands. Top edge gilt. A fine copy, the binding square and firm. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. A beautifully presented first edition of a classic of dystopian fiction. Consistently voted amongst the top 100 novels published in the 20th century. (Eschelbach and Shober 10). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
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
- Lucius Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25092
- Title
- BRAVE NEW WORLD
- Author
- HUXLEY, Aldous:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Chatto and Windus. 1932
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lucius Books
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York, North Yorkshire
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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...
- Fine
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