A defining moment in the genre of the dystopian novel, Brave New World considers the dangers that new technologies and mass modernization pose to the very core of humanness. The jacket is NOT price clipped, and has a stated price of 7s. ![]() An absolutely lovely bright, vibrant dust jacket presenting the book very well. This jacket has strong vibrant colors with NO sunning to the spine, no rips, no chips, no edgewear, no stains, no fading, and no rubbing, but few dots of foxing to the inner flaps. The Brave New World jacket is known to be extremely fragile, and usually in pieces, or has a lot of sunning (browning) to the spine, or the spine may be missing altogether. The scarce original dust jacket has benefited from very slight restoration to the outer spine tips by an expert paper conservator and as such presents as a near fine example. Otherwise no stains, no marks, no writing, no handling marks, and no bent pages. The internal pages are clean, bright and flat with some dots of foxing to the first few leaves and a few stray dots to the outer page block. The end papers and internal pages are clean, with NO owner names, NO inscriptions, NO bookstore stamps and NO bookplates. The boards have sharp corners and no edgewear. The book is in beautiful condition with bright blue boards still retaining their original sheen, with bright unfaded gilt titles to spine. Easily Huxley?s most popular (and many good judges continue to think his best) novel?. ![]() ?A nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century. First Edition, First Printing A superb Fine/near fine book with a stunning Fine/near fine vibrant original dust jacket.
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