8vo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in black (slightly leaned, spine a touch faded); dust jacket (spine ends and fore-corners chipped with a few loses, spine panel toned). Provenance: George I. Leeland (bookplate).

FIRST TRADE EDITION of Huxley's dystopian novel, ranked fifth by the Modern Library on its list of the 100 best English-Language novels of the 20th century. Connolly describes the novel as "a Utopia which is never dull, of which the horror is always credible as one sympathies grow more involved with the fate of the young primitive from the Indian Reservation who challenges the machine." Bromer A29.2; Connolly, The Modern Movement 75 ("brilliantly plausible fantasy").