"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway
Brave New World.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1932. [Dystopian novel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 306 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Contents clean, no inscriptions, edges of text block gently toned, joints and extremities rubbed, some acceptable marks to covers. A modern highlight, and a landmark of 20th century fiction suggesting that a future of boundless materialist happiness, designer narcosis and no strings sex might not be all its made out to be. Aldous Huxley was awarded the 1939 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 'After Many A Summer Dies The Swan'. Item #75298
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