Brave New World. de HUXLEY, Aldous - 1932

London: Chatto & Windus,, 1932. But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin First edition, first impression, in an excellent example of the striking dust jacket, the blue colours remaining distinctly vivid. Huxley's enduring dystopian novel, which meditates on the negative consequences of unlimited happiness, turned him into the most famous British novelist of the inter-war period. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge blue, bottom edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Housed in a dark blue quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Spine with light fading and bumps to ends, internally fresh; jacket notably sharp and bright, notwithstanding a couple of spots and short closed tears, price-clipped: a near-fine copy in like jacket. Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction, p. 267; Bromer A29.3.1; Eschelbach & Shober 10; Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 120.