Brave New World.

HUXLEY, Aldous.

Item Number: 7215

London: Chatto & Windus, 1932.

Signed limited first edition. Octavo, original yellow cloth, gilt topstain as issued. One of a limited edition of 324 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf, this is copy number 28. In very good condition with some toning to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.

"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).