Huxley, AldousBiblio.com
HUXLEY, AldousBiblio.com
Point Counter Point
rif. 51552New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Light grey cloth with gilt lettering pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 514pp 8pp ads. Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear only; poignant nonauthorial ownership inscription on copyright page. Handsome and tight later late 1950s printing of Modern Library #180 first published by them in 1930 -- the British novelist's long 1928 "novel of ideas." Intriguingly inner flyleaf bears a custom 3½" X 4½" bookplate designed by celebrated painter/illustrator Rockwell Kent 1882-1971 for the writer/artist he hand-picked as his biographer/bibliographer: Printed name reads "Jacquie & Dan Burne Jones." Dan Burne Jones 1908-95 was an artist in his own right and authored the 1975 "The Prints of Rockwell Kent: A Catalogue Raisonne. The Modern Library hardcover
