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Point Counter Point.
by HUXLEY, Aldous
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus,, 1928. First edition, first impression, of the author's "most ambitious and complex work" (Britannica), which became an international bestseller. The novel is an examination of conflicting worldviews among a group of intellectuals, some of whom were based on prominent artistic and literary figures including D. H. Lawrence, John Middleton Murray, and Augustus John. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers ruled in blind, top edge red. With dust jacket. Bookplate of Virginia bibliophile and historian Christopher Clark Geest (b.1936). Cloth bright, scent of lingering cigarette smoke, faint splash marks to fore edge, affecting a few margins, contents unaffected and clean. A very good copy in like dust jacket, toning to spine, splash marks to spine and rear panel, couple of shallow chips and short closed tears, 3 cm closed tear at foot of rear panel, unclipped. Bromer A18.2.1; Eschelbach & Shober 49.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 157868
- Title
- Point Counter Point.
- Author
- HUXLEY, Aldous
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Chatto & Windus,
- Date Published
- 1928
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Gilt
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- Fore Edge
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- Bookplate
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- Octavo
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