HUXLEY, AldousABAA
Huxley, AldousABAA
POINT COUNTER POINT Signed
1928réf. 1390286London UK: Chatto & Windus 1928. First Limited Edition First Printing #220/256. Hardcover. Octavo 601 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in publisher's green cloth with a tanned spine and gilt lettering. Boards have mild shelving wear stains on the front and rear covers and light fraying along the fore corners and spine head and tail edges. Textblock has light soiling throughout a pencil mark on the second rear end-page mild wear along the edges moderate age-toning along the edges stains along the edges and gilt along the head edges. Signed twice once by former U.S. Navy Secretary Paul H. Nitze on the front end-page and once by author Aldous Huxley on the publisher's limitation page limited edition #220/256. DL consignment. Shelved in Case 6. "Point Counter Point" is Aldous Huxley's fourth novel and is notable for it's more complex and serious tone as well as for being the longest novel he would write. It remains well regarded for it's method of storytelling and would see a BBC adaptation in 1968. Aldous Huxley was born July 26 1894 to the prominent Huxley family. He would become well-known for his depictions of both dystopia and utopia in fiction and as a prominent universalist philosopher. Paul H. Nitze was a former U.S. Secretary of the Navy under President Lyndon B. Johnson. Having begun government service during World War II he would be immensely influential in shaping American policy towards the Soviet Union during the Cold War helping to establish the policy of "containment" and heightened militarization of the American state. 1390286. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
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