Ape and Essence.

HUXLEY, Aldous.

$200.00

Item Number: 146156

London: Chatto & Windus, 1949.

First English edition of this cautionary tale and satire. Small octavo, original cloth, top edge blue. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer, philosopher, and notable pacifist, widely known for his recording of psychedelic experience 'The Doors of Perception' and his dystopian narrative 'Brave New World.' He published 'Ape and Excess' in 1948, a satire of the rise of large-scale warfare and warmongering in the 20th century. An excellent commentary of progress and nationalism, the novel presents a pessimistic view of the politics of mutually assured destruction through the surreal imagery of humans apes who, as a whole, are certain to kill themselves.