Brave New World. Limited Edition Issue. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. Pp 306, uncut. Publisher’s yellow buckram, titles in gilt on a blue morocco leather spine label, bevelled, top edge gilt. Housed in custom made solander box. A near fine copy.

Limited Edition of 324 numbered copies Signed by Aldous Huxley on the limitation page, this copy Number 228.

The classic dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning, that are combined to make a utopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story’s protagonist.

One of the few science fiction novels of the 1930s that was considered a major work by the critics. Alongside Orwell’s “1984,” Brave New World stands out as one of the classic dystopian novels of the 20th century.