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63. Brave New World HUXLEY, Aldous

Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition. Original blue cloth in stylish blue dustwrapper. A near fine copy, in a near fine (price-clipped) dustwrapper, notably bright and crisp, with a short closed tear to the upper cover and a touch of toning to the spine. [43783] £15,000 The author’s highlight and a twentieth century classic of dystopian fiction. “...[a] brilliantly plausible fantasy he has constructed from his scientific gleanings. It is a Utopia which is never dull, of which the horror is always credible...” (Connolly) Connolly 75

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