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Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World, first edition, 1932
Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World, first edition, 1932
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Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World, first edition, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, very light sunning to spine, dust-jacket, slight toning to spine, staining to verso, spine ends and corners a little chipped with archival tape repairs to verso, neat closed horizontal tear to spine with archival tape repair to verso, light spotting, extremities a little rubbed, a very good copy overall, [Connolly, The Modern Movement 75], 8vo, 1932
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Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World, first edition, 1932

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