HUXLEY, Aldous
Brave New World
London, Chatto & Windus, 1932
8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 306 p.; nice copy, lacking the dust jacket, spine with 2 visible creases and slightly leaning, small black spot on the back, corners and edges rubbed, interior is bright and clean, no markings
First edition and first printing of Huxley’s classic tale of a society operating on the principles of mass production and Pavlovian conditioning. Informed by the writer’s growing anxieties about the direction of political, social and scientific progress, Brave New World is also an astonishingly prescient novel, foretelling advances in each of these areas that were as much as a half-century away.
