HUXLEY, Aldous.
Brave New World.
New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers , 1932.
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First American Edition of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World; With an Autograph Letter Signed by Him
First American edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Accompanied by an autograph letter signed by Huxley and the original handwritten envelope addressed to Herbert Marx Meyer. One page, octavo, on Cap De La Gorguette Sanary letterhead. The letter reads in full, "I.viii.30 Dear Mr. Meyer, I am sorry not to have answered your letter before: but I have a slight phobia where letters are concerned - & a very powerful phobia about doing up parcels; so would you mind sticking the enclosed signature into the book & not send the book to me here; for I wouldn't take the responsibility of saying that I would overcome the phobia & return it. Yours Aldous Huxley." In near fine condition. A nice example.
"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 century.
Brave New World.
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