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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. In near fine condition with light toning. An exceptional example. Huxley wrote Brave New World in response to H.G. Wells’ Utopian novels of the early 20th century. Set in London in the year 2540, the novel anticipated future developments in psychological manipulation and reproductive technology which created a profound shift in the character of society. "A nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science… easily Huxley's most popular (and many good judges continue to think his best) novel" (DNB). "After the success of his first three novels, Huxley abandoned the fictional milieu of literary London and directed his satire toward an imagined future. He admitted that the original idea of Brave New World… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo, original blue cloth. Boldly signed by Aldous Huxley on a slip laid in. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with professional restoration. "A nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science… easily Huxley's most popular (and many good judges continue to think his best) novel" (DNB). "After the success of his first three novels, Huxley abandoned the fictional milieu of literary London and directed his satire toward an imagined future. He admitted that the original idea of Brave New World was to challenge H.G. Wells' Utopian vision… The novel also marks Huxley's increasing disenchantment with the world, which was to result in his leaving England for California in 1937 in search of a more spiritual life. The book was immediately successful" (Parker & Kermode, 161-62). Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth… Read More

London: Chatto and Windus, 1932. Signed Limited First Edition. Very Good. First British edition, signed limited issue. Number 302 of a limited 324 copies signed by Aldous Huxley. Bound in publisher's original yellow cloth with blue morocco title label to spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt and all others untrimmed. Very Good with cloth spine-toned and lightly dust-soiled, pages browned at rough-cut edges. A beautiful copy of the author's best-known work.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by Aldous Huxley on a professionally tipped in page from a signed limited edition, therefore the authenticity is guaranteed. Measures approximately 7.75" x 5.25" with 306 numbered pages. This book is in very good plus condition. Gilt lettering and design on spine still full and vivid. Mostly leather bound with marble on boards. Binding is tight and interior pages are clean. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # (O8-57).

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 & 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. Huxley wrote Brave New World in response to H.G. Wells’ Utopian novels of the early 20th century. Set in London in the year 2540, the novel anticipated future developments in psychological manipulation and reproductive technology which created a profound shift in the character of society. "A nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science… easily Huxley's most popular (and many good judges continue to think his best) novel" (DNB). "After the success of his first three novels, Huxley abandoned the fictional milieu of literary London and directed his satire toward an imagined future. He admitted that the original idea of Brave New… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First Edition, First Printing. First UK edition, first printing. Signed by Aldous Huxley on a professionally tipped in page from a signed limited edition, therefore the authenticity is guaranteed. Comes with a brand new facsimile (reproduction) dust jacket for protection and display. Measures approximately 7.75" x 5.25" with 306 numbered pages. This book is in very good plus condition.Gilt lettering and design on spine still bright and well preserved. Minor staining and surface wear to the boards. Minor foxing to interior pages. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by the story's protagonist. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our… Read More

New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1932. Signed Limited First Edition. First American edition, limited issue. Copy #165 of 250 signed by Aldous Huxley. [viii], 311pp. Bound in publisher's mauve paper covered boards stamped in gilt, with black spine cloth elaborately stamped in gilt, gilt topstain. Very Good with light stains to front and back boards, small bump to top edge. Lacking slipcase. The classic dystopian novel that posited a nearly omnipotent totalitarian state essentially built from the ground up, rather than the top-down dictatorship of 1984.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Aldous Huxley on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original grey-blue boards over black spine cloth stamped in blue and gilt. Near Fine with boards slightly sunned through dust jacket and former owner bookplate to front free endpaper. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear, light soiling and light toning. A non-fiction work written nearly thirty years after the publication of Brave New World in which Huxley ponders whether the world had moved toward or away from his vision of the future from the 1930s.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959. First edition of Huxley's classic work revisiting the premises of his iconic dystopian and prophetic novel, published 28 years earlier, and how this vision has come to fruition. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Aldous Huxley on the half-title page. This title is rare signed as Huxley, near the end of his life was nearly blind. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed. Published 28 years after Huxley’s nightmarish masterpiece, Brave New World Revisited contains a concise analysis of how the author's grotesque vision of the future has, in many ways, already come to fruition. Huxley examines the ways in which Big Business and political propaganda have already established a "psychological slave trade" in addition to many other "Brave New World techniques" which increasingly threaten the freedom of the individual. Chapters include Propaganda in a Democratic Society, The Arts of Selling, Brainwashing, Chemical… Read More

Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Near Fine/Very Good. Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974. First Thus, Limited to 2000 copies of which this is no. 1700. Quarto; publisher's glossy pictorial paper-covered boards, orange topstain, housed in original glassine dust jacket and paper-covered slipcase; xxv,[1],237pp.; ten leaves of plates. Dust jacket a bit wrinkled and toned at margins and spine panel, light dust-soil to slipcase, and couple spots of thumbprinting in bottom margin of facing pages 234-235, else a Near Fine example. Signed by the illustrator on colophon in rear.