Brave New World ~ Aldous retailer Huxley ~ 1978, Easton Press ~ Leather, Illustrations, Gilt Decoration, Moire Endpaper, Integral Bookmark, Near New

Brave New World

By Aldous Huxley

With the author's foreword
& a new introduction by
Ashley Montagu

Illustrated by Mara McAfee

The 100 Greatest Books Every Written
Collector's Editon
Bound in Genuine Leather

1978, The Easton Press
Norwalk, Connecticut

Sewn binding. Black leather over boards with gilt decoration on front and back and design and lettering on spine. Integral ribbon marker sewn retailer in. Four spine hubs. All edges of leaves gilt. Moiré endpapers. 10.25", 237 pages, publisher's preface, introduction, list of illustrations, author's foreword, unattached Easton Press bookplate (see last image)

Near New condition. A solid, clean copy. The ribbon maker looks to be undisturbed.

From the Publisher's Preface

Aldous Huxley wrote numerous novels and many satirical and serious essays and books, but his best work, the most interesting and entertaining of all his creations, is "Brave New World," which he published in his thirty-eighth year, and which has been widely hailed as a twentieth-century classic. it is not only a novel - it is a grim prophecy whose fulfillment may already have commenced.

Set in the year 632 AF (After Ford), "Brave New World" pictures an Earth too powerfully influenced by our scientists and sociologists. Huxley's human embryos developed in bottles and conditioned to collectivism and passivity have their echoes today in biological laboratories that experiment in cloning - the artificial growing of many organisms from the cells of a single individual by asexual reproduction. Only one or two of Huxley's drug-happy characters are appalled by the wholesale manufacture of groups of identical individuals having predetermined levels of intelligence, capability, and desires.

If protests against this type of experimentation have multiplied in the current decade, they had an early start in the current decade, they had an early start in the forebodings of Aldous Huxley. His great achievement was to express them in a satirical novel about believable people sinking or swimming in a futuristic society.

BEP