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Rather than depicting these developments as gateways to utopia, as writers such as H.G. 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. A very handsome unrestored example of this classic fragile book. The jacket is NOT price clipped and has a stated price of 7s. An absolutely lovely jacket presenting the book very well. This jacket has strong vibrant colors with no rips, no chips, no edgewear, no stains but a touch of slight toning to the spine. The Brave New World jacket is known to be extremely fragile, and usually in pieces. The scarce original dust jacket has benefited from very slight restoration by an expert paper conservator to the spine tips and as such presents as a near fine example. Lovely book internally appearing as unread. The internal pages are clean, bright and flat with no stains, no marks, no foxing, no writing, no handling marks, and no bent pages. The end papers and internal pages are clean, with NO owner names, NO inscriptions, NO bookstore stamps and NO bookplates. Slight toning to the boards and slight soft creases along the spine, and one very tiny 1mm ding to rear board. The boards have sharp corners, one slightly pushed, 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. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century. 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. Beautiful clean book near fine, with a stunning near fine vibrant original dust jacket. Please see our ABE store for more Sci Fi titles. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. A very handsome fine/near fine example of this classic fragile book. A ?nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science? (DNB). Wells had done, Huxley foreshadowed how radically technology and psychological conditioning could limit individual rights ranging from sexuality and reproduction to creativity to love. 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 boards have sharp corners and no edgewear. First Edition, First Printing A superb Fine/near fine book with a stunning Fine/near fine vibrant original dust jacket.