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• Author: Aldous Huxley
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Seller Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in especially bright and very near fine dust jacket with very small chips at the spine ends and a tiny and seamless internal repair of a miniscule tear. Housed in a custom blue cloth clamshell case with gray morocco gilt spine label. A truly lovely copy of Huxley's masterpiece, a bleak and despairing vision of future society. Increasingly rare in collector's condition. A much fresher than usual example. *Connolly 100.*. See More Details

Seller Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with significant lean to binding and light fading to spine, foxing to text block edges, and slight perfume odor. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning to spine, light edge wear and foxing. A striking copy of the dystopian classic. See More Details

Seller Description: First edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo, original blue cloth. Boldly signed by Aldous Huxley on a slip laid in. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with professional restoration. "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 ... See More Details

Seller Description: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue boards with titles in gilt to spine, blue topstain; original dust jacket with wraparound globe illustration by Leslie Holland. Very good or better book, with light toning to spine, bright gilt to spine, light rubbing to spine ends, bottom corner of front board lightly bumped, gentle lean to spine, light offsetting to endpapers, and rust mark from paperclip to front free endpaper and front flyleaf; very ... See More Details

Seller Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight fading to the spine and light wear to tips. Textblock edge lightly dust-soiled, contents toned and several preliminary sheets slightly soiled. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, toning to spine with chipping at ends and corners, with a short split started at the bottom of the front spine joint. A great copy of this dystopian classic. See More Details

Seller Description: First edition, first printing. [vi], 306, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt, blue topstain. Near Fine with typical slight toning to spine, bookplate on paste down, in a Very Good unsophisticated dust jacket, light pink staining to front panel title lettering, spine panel toned, slightly chipped extremities with a triangular chip to the fore edge of the rear panel, unclipped (7s 6d). The first British trade edition of the classic dystopian novel that posited a ... See More Details

Seller Description: Very Good. First British edition, signed limited issue. Number 302 of a limited 324 copies signed by Aldous Huxley. Bound in publisher's original yellow cloth with blue morocco title label to spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt and all others untrimmed. Very Good with cloth spine-toned and lightly dust-soiled, pages browned at rough-cut edges. A beautiful copy of the author's best-known work. See More Details

Seller Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First American trade edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth stamped in gilt with red topstain. Near Fine with oxidation to gilt at spine and light softening to ends, light fading to cloth and light soiling to fore edge. Endsheets lightly offset. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with spine fading, light soiling and a 2" closed tear to the top of the front flap fold. A much nicer copy than normally encountered and scarce thus. The ... See More Details

Seller Description: Signed limited first edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo, original yellow cloth, gilt topstain as issued. One of a limited edition of 324 numbered copies signed by Aldous Huxley on the limitation page, this is number 8. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Huxley wrote Brave New World in response to H.G. Wells' Utopian novels of the early 20th century. Set in London in the year 2540, the novel anticipated future developments in psychological manipulation ... See More Details

Seller Description: Very Good. First edition of Aldous Huxley's first book. A presentation copy, signed by the author and inscribed to Elbridge Adams, dated 1929. Bound in publisher's original cream-colored wraps with title label to spine and upper cover. Very Good with soiling and edge wear, and a short split started at the bottom of the front spine fold. The words "Printed in Great Britain" penciled to title page, and pages lightly thumbed. Housed in a custom green cloth folding slipcase. See More Details

Seller Description: First American edition, limited issue. Copy #165 of 250 signed by Aldous Huxley. [viii], 311pp. Bound in publisher's mauve paper covered boards stamped in gilt, with black spine cloth elaborately stamped in gilt, gilt topstain. Very Good with light stains to front and back boards, small bump to top edge. Lacking slipcase. The classic dystopian novel that posited a nearly omnipotent totalitarian state essentially built from the ground up, rather than the top-down dictatorship of 1984. See More Details

Seller Description: First American edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Aldous Huxley on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed. The Doors of Perception is a philosophical essay detailing his experiences when taking mescaline. The book takes the form of Huxley's recollection of a mescaline trip that took place over the course of an afternoon in May 1953. The book takes its title from a phrase in William Blake's 1793 poem The ... See More Details

Seller Description: Good in Good jacket. Book First Edition, first printing. DJ is not price-clipped, ruffled edges & a 1' piece missing from upper end of spine, colorful w/sunned spine.; protected in mylar. Boards are well-bound, light bumps to spine ends; textbox edges darkening, off-setting at glue lines on endpapers; pages clean & sharp throughout. See More Details

Seller Description: Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth stamped in gilt with red topstain. Near Fine with light sunning to spine and edges, pages toned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket, edge-worn and with several masking tape reinforcements to the verso. The classic dystopian novel that posited a nearly omnipotent totalitarian state essentially built from the ground up, rather than the top-down dictatorship of 1984. See More Details

Seller Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Aldous Huxley on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original grey-blue boards over black spine cloth stamped in blue and gilt. Near Fine with boards slightly sunned through dust jacket and former owner bookplate to front free endpaper. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear, light soiling and light toning. A non-fiction work written nearly thirty years after the publication of Brave New World ... See More Details

Seller Description: First edition of Huxley's classic work revisiting the premises of his iconic dystopian and prophetic novel, published 28 years earlier, and how this vision has come to fruition. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Aldous Huxley on the half-title page. This title is rare signed as Huxley, near the end of his life was nearly blind. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed. Published 28 years after Huxley's nightmarish masterpiece, Brave New World Revisited contains a ... See More Details

Seller Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. First American trade edition after the printing of 250 de luxe copies, first printing. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth stamped in gilt with red topstain. Very Good with slight lean to binding, rubbing to gilt lettering at spine, bumped top right corner; light offsetting to endsheets. Front free endpaper top corner clipped; musty odor to contents. In a Very Good slightly tattered unclipped dust jacket with moderate toning, light toning and patchy loss of ... See More Details

Seller Description: Signed limited edition, one of 100 numbered examples. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Aldous Huxley and additionally by the publisher, "To my constant friend James Blake from Jake." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. This is Huxley's smallest limited edition, rare and desirable. An argument as timely as it is timeless, Aldous Huxley's Words and Their Meanings argues the significance and power of words. A less well-known work originally published by The Ward Ritchie Press in 1940, Huxley's ... See More Details

Seller Description: As New. 0060800232. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-AS NEW, THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE, CLEAN, UNMARKED, AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION----with a bonus offer-- See More Details

Seller Description: As New. 070111312X. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-AS NEW, THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE, CLEAN, UNMARKED, AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION-992 pages. First American edition so stated. Photo portrait of Huxley as frontispiece. Corresponds to / first American edition of ISBN: 070111312X--with a bonus offer-- See More Details

Seller Description: UsedGood. Size: 5x0x8; Good condition. No marking/highlighting. Cover and pages may show some wear. Not Satisfied? Contact us to get a refund. See More Details

Seller Description: Signed limited first edition of Huxley's classic satiric novel, one of 256 numbered copies, this is number 254. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Point Counter Point's title is a reference to the flow of arguments in a debate, and a series of these exchanges tell the story. Instead of a single central plot, there are a number of interlinked story lines and recurring themes (as in musical "counterpoint"). As a ... See More Details

Seller Description: Good. No Jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) No. 182 of 265 copies, signed by Huxley below the Edition declaration. Green cloth boards are snugly bound, sunned at spine, slightly soiled from age & handling; now protected in mylar. Endpapers tanning, otherwise, clean, sharp pages throughout. See More Details

Seller Description: Good Condition. Cover shows minor signs of handling, and one or two nicks and bumps. Text a little tanned, but otherwise clean and fresh. Otherwise, sound and serviceable. Publisher's note: Huxley's essays on art, literature, philosophy and everyday life reflect his love of the provocative, the astonishing breadth of his erudition and, above all, his inexhaustible curiosity. Size: 19.7 x 13 x 1.5 cm. 132 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; English prose; ISBN: ... See More Details

Seller Description: Near Fine. First edition, limited issue. Copy #111 of a limited 200 copies, signed by the Aldous Huxley. Bound in publisher's original patterned paper-covered boards over brown spine cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light edge wear, uneven toning to rear cover faint waviness to pages and slight bleeding and offsetting to author's signature. A lovely copy. See More Details