by Aldous Huxley
First edition, first printing
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932. First American trade edition after the printing of 250 de luxe copies, first printing. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth stamped in gilt with red topstain. Very Good with slight lean to binding, rubbing to gilt lettering at spine, bumped top right corner; light offsetting to endsheets. Front free endpaper top corner clipped; musty odor to contents. In a Very Good slightly tattered unclipped dust jacket with moderate toning, light toning and patchy loss of color to spine and panels, foxing. Interior tear to top of front panel near spine and other trivial tears to edges. The classic dystopian novel that posited a nearly omnipotent totalitarian state essentially built from the ground up, rather than the top-down dictatorship of 1984.