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Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition: this copy is number 75 of 260 copies. SIGNED by the author. Octavo, bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering along the spine, decorated paper covered boards, top edge gilt. Some light age toning to boards, else very good or better. No dust jacket, as issued. ; 59 pages B0060PD6ZA
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
HUXLEY, Aldous. VULGARITY IN LITERATURE Digressions from a Theme. Chatto & Windus, 1930.
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Description: First edition, limited issue. Number 172 of 260 copies signed by Huxley. Original quarter buckram over paper covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. A near fine copy with a touch of tanning to the spine and minor wear to the corners. One of Huxley's literary essays. "This is a brilliant essay, perhaps one of the best Mr. Huxley has written. The reader naturally asks : What do you mean by vulgarity? And Mr. Huxley answers briefly : 'It is vulgar, in literature, to make a display of emotions, which you do not naturally have, but think you ought to have, because all th best people have them. It is vulgar (and this is the more common case) to have emotions, but to express them so badly, with so many protestings, that you seem to have no natural feelings, but to be merely fabricating emotions by a process of literary forgery.'" Contemporary review by W.G. Stonier in The Fortnightly Library, Feb 1931.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
Aldous Huxley. Vulgarity in Literature. Chatto and Windus, London, 1930.
Price: US$381.02 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A special limited edition of this literary essay by Aldous Huxley, signed by Huxley. A special limited edition, published concurrently with the first edition. Limited to two hundred and sixty copies, of which this is numbered forty-two.Signed by Aldous Huxley to the limitation page.An interesting essay on literature in Aldous Huxley, in which he ruminations of the idea of vulgarity and what it means. He looks at examples of the writings of various literary figures, such as Poe, Balzac, and Dickens.Huxley is best known for the important dystopian sci-fi novel 'Brave New World'. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding with patterned paper to the boards. Externally, smart. Light age-toning and a few marks to the boards, including a very small tidemark to the front board. Very light rubbing to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom