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Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1957. Brochado / Paperback / Broché. Bom / Good / Bon. In-8º (178x112). 1 Vol. de 435-[13] pp.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books in Association with Chatto and Windus, 1961. Libro. Bien. Rústica. 18 cm. 434 p. -- Penguin modern classics, 1047.

London : Chatto & Windus, 1947. New edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 601 p.; 19 cm. Subjects: English literature 20th century. Great Britain Fiction. Genre:Fiction.

New York: The Modern Library, Publishers, 1930. First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. pp. 514. 12mo., measuring 4.5" x 6.5". Publisher's maroon cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine, illustrated endpapers. Light superficial crease and sunning to the spine, some rubbing to the cloth extremities, contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmared pages. Overall, good+. Scarce in commerce in the "First Modern Library Edition".

London: Chatto & Windus, 1941. "New Impression". Hardcover. Spidery and illegible non-authorial inscription to front free endpaper, else very good in moderately worn, price-clipped jacket. [6], 601 pp., octavo, original brown cloth with cover titles in white, dustjacket. Huxley's longest novel, an examination of conflicting worldviews, social mores and intellectual ideals among a group of characters, some of whom are loosely based on the prominent figures in the world of literature and the arts, including DH Lawrence, John Middleton Murray, Augustus John, et al.

London : Chatto & Windus, 1928. Second Edition. Hardcover. Provenance: Bookplate of Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 601p. ; 19cm. Subjects: English literature -- 20th century.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929. Early reprint. Hardcover. Very good, quite clean and unworn in worn jacket with fading to jacket spine, chip at top of spine, price-clipped.Small bookseller sticker of Chas. E. Lauriat Co., Boston at lower left corner of front free endpaper. [6], 432 pp., octavo, original purple cloth with paper spine label, dustjacket. Huxley's longest novel, an examination of conflicting worldviews, social mores and intellectual ideals amongs a group of characters, some of whom are loosely based on the prominent figures in the world of literature and the arts, including DH Lawrence, John Middleton Murray, Augustus John, et al. First edition was published the previous year.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1937. New Impression". Hardcover. A fine copy, entirely clean and unworn and with no previous owner markings of any kind in near fine jacket with slight edgewear. Bookseller sticker of MacGregor Book Mart, Dundee on rear fixed endpaper. [6], 601 pp., octavo, original brown cloth with cover titles in white, dustjacket. Huxley's longest novel, an examination of conflicting worldviews, social mores and intellectual ideals among a group of characters, some of whom are loosely based on the prominent figures in the world of literature and the arts, including DH Lawrence, John Middleton Murray, Augustus John, et al.

Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928, 1928. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. [1st American edition; later printing] 432 pages 22 cm ; LCCN: 28-25185 ; LC: PZ3.H981; PR6015.U9; Dewey: 823.91 ; OCLC: 920277 ; "In this satiric view of intellectual life in the 1920s, diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously by characters based on celebrities of the time, such as D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, and Huxley himself." ; "The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy who devours every man in sight; the repulsive Spandrell deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment and all the while everyone is engaged in dazzling and witty conversation." ; lavender cloth with green and purple paste down spine title label ; no dustjacket ; bright green harlequin-design… Read More