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Aldous Huxley. Little Mexican. Chatto and Windus, 1932.
Price: US$376.51 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Aldous Huxley, born 1894, is best known for his fictional dystopian novel Brave New World, as well as his non-fiction account of his experiences with psychedelics, The Doors of Perception. He was adept at writing a variety of genres, however, including poetry, literary criticism, screenplays, and short stories. Little Mexican, alternatively known as Young Archimedes in the US and first published in 1924 was Huxleyâ s third collection of short stories, which he primarily wrote in Italy between 1923-1924. There are six stories in total, some of which are semi-autobiographical in nature. The stories in the volume are, "Uncle Spencer," "Little Mexican," "Hubert and Minnie," "Fard," "The Portrait," and "Young Archimedes." This edition may be described as being in Very Good condition. There is some bumping to the corners and ends of the spine, but the pages are clear and save for some mild age-related discolouration are in excellent condition. There is a previous owners name and date on the front fly leaf, as well as a note indicating that it is a signed copy, both in blue pen. It is signed by the author on the title page, and dated in Huxleyâ s hand 1938, demonstrating the distinctive manner in which he wrote the date with the 1 and 9 attached. The dust jacket may be described as being in Fair condition. There are some nicks and tears in the top and bottom, but the most significant issue is large tears to the front edge of the dust jacket, which have been repaired with cellophane tape. The dust jacket is now in a protective plastic cover to preserve its integrity.
Seller: BOOKS AND COMPANY LTD., Picton, ON, Canada
Aldous Huxley. Brave New World SIGNED. Chatto & Windus, London, 1932.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: First UK edition, first printing. Signed by Aldous Huxley on a professionally tipped in page from a signed limited edition, therefore the authenticity is guaranteed. Comes with a brand new facsimile (reproduction) dust jacket for protection and display. Measures approximately 7.75" x 5.25" with 306 numbered pages. This book is in very good plus condition.Gilt lettering and design on spine still bright and well preserved. Minor staining and surface wear to the boards. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Aldous Huxley. Brave New World. Chatto & Windus, 1932.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Chatto and Windus, 1932, 1932. FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Hardcover Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition and first printing. 306 Pp. Blue Boards With Gold Lettering On Spine. First Printing. Tight, Slight lean to spine, Clean With All Gilt Lettering And Design Still Brilliant, Very Light Rubbing At Corners, No Names Or Marks Or Book Plates, stain on first pages up to page number 7. SIGNED BY AUTHOR DIRECTLY ON FRONT PAGE. Photos available upon request. $4,500
Seller: E. B. Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
HUXLEY, Aldous. BRAVE NEW WORLD. Chatto & Windus, 1932.
Price: US$5168.69 + shipping
Description: First edition, large paper issue, number 202 of 324 copies numbered and signed by the author. Original yellow buckram with blue morocco title label. Top edge gilt, others uncut. A very good copy with some tanning to the spine, minor wear to the corners and slight dustiness to covers. The author's highlight and one of the great novels of the twentieth century. ".[a] brilliantly plausible fantasy he has constructed from his scientific gleanings. It is a Utopia which is never dull, of which the horror is always credible." (Connolly)
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
HUXLEY, Aldous. [Signed copy]. BRAVE NEW WORLD. A Novel.. London: Chatto and Windus, 1932., 1932.
Price: US$5814.78 + shipping
Description: Signed, limited deluxe first edition, no.135 of 324 copies produced, 8vo., pp.(iv),306, publisher?s lightly bevelled yellow buckram with blue morocco title label to spine, gilt, untrimmed paper, t.e.g.; very light sunning to spine (gilt remains bright), light crease to head of spine, very slight foxing to fore-edges, internally fresh and fine, a very good copy indeed. Signed by Aldous Huxley.
Seller: Minster Gate Bookshop (est. 1970), YORK, United Kingdom
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1932.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
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. Wellsâ Utopian novels of the early 20th century. Set in London in the year 2540, the novel anticipated future developments in psychological manipulation and reproductive technology which created a profound shift in the character of society. "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.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Huxley, Aldous. BRAVE NEW WORLD .. Chatto & Windus, London, 1932.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Description: Large octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-306 [307: printer's imprint] [308-312: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], original yellow buckram over bevel-edged boards, blue leather label on spine panel, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. One of 324 numbered copies signed by Huxley. ". stands alongside WE and NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR as one of the classic dystopian novels." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-56. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-27; (1981) 2-44; (1987) 2-47; (1995) 2-56; and (2004) II-558. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 437. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 61. Connolly, The Modern Movement 75. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 151. Lewis, Utopian Literature, pp. 98-103. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 120. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 602. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 195. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 247-53. Bleiler (1978), p. 106. Reginald 07670. Some foxing to endpapers, just a bit of the age-darkening of cloth common to this binding, here restricted to the rear cover. The front and spine panels are clean and bright (none of the usual darkening or sunning to the spine panel) and the leather spine label is perfect. A very handsome, superior copy of this classic. (#114603)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. Chatto and Windus, London, 1932.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
HUXLEY, Aldous.. Brave New World.. London: Chatto and Windus, 1932, 1932.
Price: US$8722.16 + shipping
Description: First British edition, signed limited issue, number 92 of 324 copies signed and numbered by the author. This copy is from the library of Lorna St Aubyn (1929-2005), author of several volumes on New Age philosophy. Huxley shared St Aubyn's interest in spiritualism and also published works on these themes, such as The Perennial Philosophy (1945). St Aubyn's fictional alter-ego features heavily in the novels of her son Edward St Aubyn, who explores his torturous family life in the autobiographical Patrick Melrose series. During an interview, her son suggested that his mother's conversion was a form of delusion in the face of their family history: "it was a case of 'human kind cannot bear very much reality'. One had a very strong sense of that with my mother" (Brown). Similarly, Brave New World meditates on the negative consequences of eliminating unhappiness. The British edition was split into signed and trade issues, published simultaneously on 2 February, following the publication of the signed issue of the US edition on 21 January, and preceding the US trade issue on 4 February. Provenance: Bookplate of St Aubyn on third blank. Mick Brown, "How writing helped Edward St Aubyn exorcise his demons", The Telegraph, 2 May 2014, available online. Large octavo (230 x 150 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, spine lettered in gilt, decorated in compartments with gilt lozenges, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
HUXLEY, Aldous.. Brave New World.. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932, 1932.
Price: US$9691.29 + shipping
Description: First British edition, signed limited issue, number 36 of 324 copies signed and numbered by the author and specially bound. The British edition was split into signed and trade issues, published simultaneously on 2 February, following publication of the signed issue of the US edition on 21 January, and preceding the US trade issue on 4 February. Huxley's enduring dystopian novel, which meditates on the negative consequences of eliminating unhappiness, turned him into the most famous British novelist of the inter-war period. Bromer A29.2. Octavo. Original yellow cloth over bevelled boards, blue morocco spine label, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Spine lightly toned and bumped at centre and foot, cloth very lightly mottled, sides bright, browning to endpapers, contents fresh. A very good copy indeed.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1932.
Price: US$9800.00 + shipping
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 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.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1932.
Price: US$11000.00 + shipping
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. In near fine condition with light toning. An exceptional example. Huxley wrote Brave New World in response to H.G. Wellsâ Utopian novels of the early 20th century. Set in London in the year 2540, the novel anticipated future developments in psychological manipulation and reproductive technology which created a profound shift in the character of society. "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.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. Chatto & Windus, London, 1932.
Price: US$25000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A spectacular copy SIGNED by Huxley on a handwritten letter laid into the book. This ORIGINAL First Issue dustjacket is rich in color without the common fading or wear you see on most copies . The book is in fabulous shape and is bound in the publisher's blue cloth with minor wear to the edges. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb untouched copy SIGNED by the author.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.