Auction:

Books & Manuscripts - 2950B

Location:

Boston

Date / Time :

October 30, 2016 11:00AM

Description:

Huxley, Aldous (1894-1963) Brave New World, First Edition. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition, octavo, in the original jacket, publisher's blue cloth, spine sunned, jacket chipped at head, with loss of title, and at the back bottom joint with loss of the first letters of the publishers' names, not price clipped, some spotting to half-title and first few preliminary leaves, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.
Estimate $1,000-1,500


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