Huxley, Aldous (1932) ‘Brave New World’, UK first edition

Aldous Huxley (1932) ‘Brave New World‘, UK first edition, first printing, published by Chatto & Windus. In the original first state and unrestored dust jacket.

Condition: a very good book with bright and clean boards. Lights shelf wear and lean. The lettering on the spine is not rubbed out and vibrant. The spine has assumed a little ghosting from the dust jacket. Some spotting to prelims otherwise internally clean. No previous owners’ scribbles, no bookplates and no stamps. Page block shows la few ageing spots. The original dust jacket is NOT restored in any way. It has a chipping to the top edge affecting the title’s ‘Brave’ as well as a larger chip to the front affecting ‘Huxley’ as shown. A few tears in places and smaller chips. Suitable for collectors who wish to acquire an honest specimen without any restorations whatsoever.

Brave New World needs no introduction. The landmark dystopian science-fiction novel paved the way for other tales in this tradition including George Orwell’s Nineteeen Eighty-Four (1949) or Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1986). Influenced by Zamyatin’s We (1922), Huxley penned this tale of a future world of social engineering and conditioning.