8vo. Original brown cloth; dust jacket (spine panel toned with light restoration at spine ends, additional repairs to closed tears along flap folds).

FIRST AMERICAN 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. Huxley would later write that the book was inspired by the Utopian novels of H.G. Wells, intending to be a parody of Men Like Gods and A Modern Utopia, writing in a letter to a friend that he was "having a little fun pulling the leg of H. G. Wells." Brave New World has gone on to become one of the most challenged books of the 20th and 21st centuries for its depictions of religion, human sexuality, drug use, and offensive language; despite this, the book has been hailed as "brilliantly plausible fantasy" (Connolly, The Modern Movement 75).