Brave New World. by Huxley, Aldous - 1932

London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo, original blue cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear to the crown of the spine. An exceptional example. "A nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science... easily Huxley's most popular (and many good judges continue to think his best) novel" (DNB). "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, 161-62). Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century.