Brave New World (Chatto & Windus, 1932)

The London first edition from Chatto & Windus, 1932, priced at 7s. 6d. on the flap. The jacket turns Huxley's future into Art Deco geometry: a globe split down the middle and swept by bands of cream across deep blue, with the title set in tall, clipped capitals. Dealers know it as a fragile jacket that usually turns up chipped or in pieces, so a copy as complete as this one, with only wear at the head of the spine, is the exception.