BRAVE NEW WORLD. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-306 [307: printer's imprint] [308: blank] [note: trade copies have two final blanks U[3-4] excised], original blue cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge stained blue, bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition. "... stands alongside WE and NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR as one of the classic dystopian novels." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-56. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-27; (1981) 2-44; (1987) 2-47; (1995) 2-56; and (2004) II-558. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 437. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 61. Connolly, The Modern Movement 75. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 151. Lewis, Utopian Literature, pp. 98-103. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 120. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 602. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 195. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 247-53. Bleiler (1978), p. 106. Reginald 07670. Slight spine lean (as is often the case with this book), just a touch of rubbing to cloth at spine ends and corner tips, a bright, clean, very good or better copy in a good pictorial dust jacket priced 7/6 on the front flap with tanned spine panel and chips from spine ends and front corners. Enclosed in a custom cloth clamshell box with leather spine label. (#174217).
Price: $6,500.00
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