BRAVE NEW WORLD
Chatto & Windus, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First UK Edition, First Printing: A nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science. Easily Huxleys most popular (and many good judges continue to think his best) novel. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century. The book is in beautiful condition with bright blue boards with some slight rubbing to the very lower spine and edge. Bright unfaded gilt titles to spine. The boards have sharp corners, with one tiny tip bump. Touch of slight toning to the boards. The binding is sound and square. Delicate faded owner name and date of 1932 to the front fly leaf, otherwise the internal pages have no writing, no bent pages, and no foxing but to some of the first and last few pages. Lovely book internally appearing as unread. Rough cut page edges as published. Please see detailed images. Lacking the very scarce dust jacket. A very handsome unrestored example of this classic fragile book. A defining moment in the genre of the dystopian novel, Brave New World considers the dangers that new technologies and mass modernization pose to the very core of humanness. Rather than depicting these developments as gateways to utopia, as writers such as H.G. Wells had done, Huxley foreshadowed how radically technology and psychological conditioning could limit individual rights ranging from sexuality and reproduction to creativity to love. A nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science (DNB). Please see our ABE store for other landmark SciFi titles. Very Good. Item #002115
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