Aldous Huxley. Stated first (American) edition. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955. One corner of dust jacket is clipped but not price-clipped. In overall Very Good condition, which chipping on spine and edges. Still has original price $2.75 on inside flap. Jacket designed by Emil Antonucci. Hardcover is in Very Good+ condition with former owner signature on inside flyleaf. Otherwise, no writing or markings found in the book, 168 pp.
First edition of this classic Huxley novella. Octavo, original half cloth. It tells the fictional account of John Rivers, a student physicist in the 1920's who was hired out of college as a laboratory assistant to Henry Maartens. It is packed with literary and socio-historical references and allusions. Huxley portrays various aspects of his ideology about subjects such as God, sex, history, literature, intellect and death. An unsurprisingly philosophical and exploratory novel dealing with the tangled lives of a Nobel winning genius, his wife, and the man who came between them.
