"THE HORROR IS ALWAYS CREDIBLE": SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF HUXLEY'S BRAVE NEW WORLD
HUXLEY, Aldous. Brave New World. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1932. Octavo, original half black cloth gilt, top edge gilt, uncut.
Signed limited first American edition, number 77 of only 250 copies signed by the author, of Huxley's "nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science" (DNB).
"Along with Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four," Huxley's classic and chilling dystopian vision "is one of only two futuristic novels to have made a considerable contribution to the social and political rhetoric of the 20th century" (Anatomy of Wonder II:558). "A brilliantly plausible fantasy… of which the horror is always credible" (Connolly, The Modern Movement, 75). Preceded by the signed/limited first English edition of 324 copies. Without scarce original slipcase. Small clipped description tipped-in near top of front free endpaper, with a few small early owner marks above it.
Area of light offsetting to inner margin of limitation and facing page, some minor embrowning to gutter of title page. Exterior bright and clean.