Aldous Huxley – Brave New World – First UK Edition 1932

First edition, first printing. Published by Chatto and Windus, London, in 1932. Octavo. [vi], 306, [2]pp. Publisher’s original blue cloth with black lettering and decoration to the spine in the original pictorial dust wrapper designed by Leslie Holland. A near fine book in a very good original dust wrapper, the spine retaining strong colour, with light wear and creasing to the extremities and benefitting from paper conservation to the spine and spine tips.

Huxley’s best-known work and one of the defining dystopian novels of the twentieth century, imagining a technologically engineered society governed through conditioning, mass consumption and the drug soma.