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Aldous Huxley (b. 1894, d. 1963)

Aldous Huxley: Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus 1932. 8vo. 1st ed. Limited issue; one of 324 numbered and signed copies on the limitation leaf (this #305). Untrimmed. Publisher’s yellow cloth with a spine label and top edge gilt. Minor soiling and wear.

The English writer, novelist, philosopher Aldous Leonard Huxley is best known for his novels including “Brave New World”, set in a dystopian London. He wrote the novel in four months in 1931. In 1962, the year before his death, Huxley was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature.

Provenance: Private collection, Denmark.

Condition

Condition report on request.

Auction

Paintings, drawings & books, 20 September 2016

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Estimate

25,000–30,000 DKK

Price realised

Not sold