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Aldous Huxley. The Burning Wheel. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1916.. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by ...
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An Inscribed Presentation Copy of Aldous Huxley's First Book
Aldous Huxley. The Burning Wheel. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1916.First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author. 51 pages. Woodcut frontispiece and title page.
Original wrappers with front paper label and spine paper title. Covers and extremities worn. Minor soiling and toning. Very minimal separation at the spine ends. Spine title slightly torn but complete and attached. Housed in a beautiful matching cloth chemise and slipcase with black morocco label and gilt titles. This volume is inscribed by Huxley to "Elbridge Adams his book, Aldous Huxley 1929," on the half-title. "Printed in Great Britain" is written in pencil below. A beautiful copy of the author's first book.
"The majority of the poems in this first collection can be linked by their focus on sight, whether external or internal. This is most obviously apparent in poems such as 'Vision,' 'Quotidian Vision,' 'Darkness,' 'Mirror,' and 'Mole,' which emphasize as well as challenge the dichotomy between light and dark. The light-dark opposition is frequently associated with life and death, and Huxley shows himself to be an optimist; light most often succeeds or emerges from darkness" (Emily Petermann, The Burning Wheel).
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2011 April New York Signature Rare Books Auction #6053 (go to Auction Home page)
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April, 2011
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